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Save Homeless Abandon Stray Cows in Gujarat
Medical care for injured, diseased and abandoned cattle in urban and rural Gujarat — and the argument that a community should keep these animals in care rather than on the road.
Overview
Abandoned once she stops producing milk
After dogs and horses, the cow was among the first animals people domesticated. As the Vedas have it, she is a universal symbol. She benefits people and the land in ways that go unrecognised — and she is abandoned on the road anyway, once she is diseased or injured or can no longer produce milk.
The idea behind this project is to promote scientific rehabilitation and to push urban and rural communities to save these homeless abandoned cattle — for sustainable agriculture, for health and nutrition, for the environment, and for better cow-care management.
- 10
- Cases logged in December 2019
- 2
- States of care: urban and rural Gujarat
Challenge and solution
Why they end up on the road
The challenge
- Urbanisation means cattle are disowned or abandoned every day by owners, once the animal stops producing milk or is injured or diseased.
- Countless homeless abandoned cows are on the street — hit by vehicles, malnourished, dehydrated, diseased, living a hurtful life day after day.
- There are very few proper treatment facilities for animals that are dying quietly, having already served their purpose for people.
What the project does
- Improves the welfare of unowned, abandoned stray cows living in human-dominated areas, urban and rural.
- Provides medical care to diseased and injured cows through experienced veterinarians.
- Helps control zoonotic disease — anthrax, listeriosis, salmonellosis, Q fever, rabies, tuberculosis — through the same expert team.
Long-term impact
Called Gomata for a reason
The cow has been called Gomata — mother — for a reason: everything she produces benefits people and the wider creation. Conserving homeless and abandoned Indian cows matters for sustainable health, for ecological agriculture and for the environment. This programme treats and rehabilitates vulnerable stray cattle with all the medical care they need, and makes the case to people for looking after them properly.
The cow has been called Gomata — mother — for a reason.
Reports
Monthly case log — December 2019
Cases admitted
- Date
- Case history
- 4 Dec 2019
- Left horn injury, swelling near right eye
- 5 Dec 2019
- Right horn fracture
- 7 Dec 2019
- Maggot wound and dehydration
- 13 Dec 2019
- Left ear infection, severe dehydration
- 15 Dec 2019
- Hoof injury and weakness
- 19 Dec 2019
- Old eye injury
- 21 Dec 2019
- Right hoof amputation
- 25 Dec 2019
- Head and right eye injury
- 30 Dec 2019
- Left leg fractured
- 31 Dec 2019
- Maggot wound, dull and depressed
The case log as published by the trust for December 2019 — ten admissions, one line each. It is a log rather than a count, so there is nothing to total.
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