54 Nehru Nagar Agra - 282002  : Phone (+91) 562 255093, 2520140
Website - www.pfa-agra.org : Email - suratprasad@gmail.com
 
DOLF
 
 

It was a sunny and warm late September day (as warm as it gets in Belgium) when the colleagues of my company and I went for a teambuilding activity around a city called Oudenaarde. The activity took place in the countryside where people where split in teams and were given challenges to be performed. It was during one of the challenges in an open field, that I saw a very small kitten crawl from under a huge stack of fodder beets, which are common in Belgium. I walked up to the kitten and picked it up. It was disappointing to see that it's eyes were swollen and shut and puss was flowing out. The kitten was unable to see anything. I looked around for a mother cat or a nest in the area, but there were none. The kitten was all alone. I didn't have the heart to leave it in this condition so I decided to keep the little one. I took it to a veterinarian who diagnosed it as a bacteriological form of 'cat flu' (Cat flu is the common name for a feline upper respiratory tract diseases).

 

The kitten was so small that when I gave him solid food the first day, it did not know what to do with it. Luckily I had one more adult male cat called Ginger. Ginger took the little kitten into his fold and he became the surrogate father to this little kitten. Little Dolf, as I named him, started following Ginger everywhere. For the next few weeks I fed Dolf and gave it antibiotics. It's health improved and it's eyes opened. Dolf is now leading a happy and content life with me for five years now in my house. He seems to have an obvious trauma related to humans and I am the only person that can approach him and pet him.

 

Reaching out a helping hand to this poor soul, see this kitten grow and lead a healthy life has given me a feeling of content and peace.

 

Peter Van Der Snickt

 
TREATMENT DATA OF NOV
 
 ABC Operations  :  07
 Animals treated  :  506

 
TOTAL ANIMALS RESIDING IN THE SHELTER AS OF NOV
 
 Monkeys   :  04   
 Cats         :   01
 Donkeys   :   04
 Cows        :   27
 Buffaloes :   NIL
 Dogs        :   44 and 07 pups
 Birds        :   NIL

TOTAL EXPENDITURE IN NOV
 
 Medicine : INR 17,931/-
 Food        : INR 19121/-
 Salary      : INR 18782/- 

DONATIONS RECEIVED IN NOV
 
 India      :  INR 36742/- 
 Europe   :  NIL
 America :  NIL

PFA Agra invites its readers to share their stories (in not more than 350-400 words) of close encounters with animals that changed their lives in a positive way. It would be good if you could send pictures also. The pictures should be sent as separate attachments in the email. Please do not embed them in the word document.


 
A page from the life of PFA Agra
 
 
  • PFA Agra has had its share of good, sad and unavoidable moments. We have emerged from it with lessons learnt. This month we have a volunteer from Holland named Katherine. She is in PFA Agra on a sabbatical and is a great hands on person. She has recorded her views of PFA and she loves it here. Her story will come out in the next issue.
  • Our renovation is at the end and we thank Mr. O.P Agarwal for his generous offer to get this done.

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