Help our Animal Hospital Survive Covid-19 Crisis

There are many challenges still remaining since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Tourism is still down in Rajasthan, so there are fewer tourists to both help the street animals and support the local economy. We are experiencing more extremes of weather with both the hot season getting hotter and the wet season getting wetter. This situation not only makes the logistics of animal rescue more difficult, but it also makes life so much harder for the street animals.

Let me introduce you to just one animal we have helped recently. Poor Tigs had been running around Ajmer scratching his itchy skin until his hair fell out and he started giving himself wounds.

Mange by itself isn’t life threatening but the wounds caused by incessant itching can be. Infection can set in, and in damp weather maggots can infest the wounds. If left untreated these will kill a dog. Tigs was raw, miserable and with little hope in sight… Until our vehicle was called to rescue him!

At TOLFA, all mange dogs like Tigs are given weekly chemical baths and anti-parasite injections, so slowly the itching lessened, his wounds started healing and the rawness went away.

It took many weeks for us to make sure that every parasite was gone, but Tigs is now parasite free, sterilised and vaccinated against rabies and will soon be off back to his area to live his second chance at life.

Tigs is just one animal we were able to help, but our emergency number receives about 50 calls to help animals like Tigs every single day. It is our aim to help every single animal that needs us. This is all possible due to your support and we cannot thank you enough.

Links:

• Help Us Get A New Rescue Vehicle to Reach More Animals Like Tigs