Kalu

Kalu’s rescue story as written by his rescuer Sonia Heller in New Delhi India.

Kalu was living with a farmer who had a few cows on a little piece of land, along the road to our house. We noticed Kalu a few times on the way, also when we stopped to feed some dogs; Kalu was very friendly gentle, and always waited for his turn, to avoid any kind of conflict. Once we spoke to the farmer who told us that he was “his” dog and he had named him Kalu, which means black in Hindi. From one day to another though, the farmer and his cows all vanished. As long as we can remember, we always saw him with his cows there since we came in India in 2011, so this was totally unexpected. We didn’t see Kalu for a while and thought he went with the farmer. After 3 weeks, we thought we spotted him, but he was unrecognisable, emaciated, not moving, lying in the mud nearby a busy road intersection. We called him, he started to whine but didn’t stand up. We went to him, he licked our hands frenetically, wiggling his tail so we knew it was him. We picked him up and brought him to the vet. He had parasites in his stomach and intestines, and also a heavy ticks infestation, which were most probably never removed while he was living with the farmer.

Now Kalu’s doing fine, playing with the others, running in the garden and always asking for food. He reminds us of Clyde who was also mad about food. Kalu must be about 1 year and has been neutered already by someone a while ago, certainly not the farmer. Kalu is a very peaceful & loving boy, never barking, happy to make friend with everyone he meets, both dogs and humans. He’s fully vaccinated.