Shocking! Stray dog with toes cut off left to die in Dahisar

The dog was found near a fish market with an eye popped out and toes cut offAround 1030 am on Sunday independent animal rescuer Christina Lobo received a call of a dog being found mdash mutilated and almost dying mdash near the fish market in Dahisar Not a stranger to such calls Lobo asked the caller to send her a picture of the injured dog But nothing had prepared her for the images that showed up on her screen nextAlso ReadThane Your puppys blood donor is just a click awayHer the dogrsquos toes were chopped off and the right eye had popped out of its socket which is mostly the result of being hit on the head with extreme force said Lobo The man who called said he suspected that some robbers had cut and brutalised the dog with a machetelike weaponThe caller Jaiprakash Masurkar a resident of Patil Chawl in Dahisar West said his neighbour alerted him about the dog around 930 am ldquoWhen I found the dog in that condition my first reaction was to call for an ambulancehellip She the dog had a deep gash on the front leg and one of the eyes was missing She was breathing but barelyrdquoLobo asked Masurkar to immediately take the injured animal to a veterinarianrsquos clinic in Borivalirsquos IC Colony After failing to find a private ambulance for 15 minutes Masurkar wrapped the dog up in a bed sheet and took her to the clinic in an autorickshaw Meanwhile Lobo began coordinating a fund collection for the dogrsquos treatmentldquoThe doctor stitched up her eye and the open wounds on her body but couldnrsquot do anything else because she was very weakrdquo said Lobo ldquoThe entire treatment took over three hours to completerdquoShe said the dog could not be sent back to the streets in that condition and needed to recover at a foster home ldquoThe first people I thought of was the Thane Society for Protection of Cruelty to Animalsrdquo said Lobo ldquoI contacted Shakuntala Majumdar at the centre who took the dog in graciously She is still very weak and in shock Only time will tell if shersquoll make it out aliverdquoDahisar West resident Jaiprakash Masurkar wrapped the dog up in a bed sheet and rushed her to a veterinarianAround 1130 pm last night the dog could finally move around and consumed some soup mdash her first meal since the rescueAlarming rise in abuse of straysMeet Ashar animal welfare officer Animal Welfare Board of India AWBI said animal cruelty cases in the city have been increasing manifold ldquoMumbai seems to have become a hub for animal abuse I addressed 40 odd cases in the past week alone pertaining to animal cruelty and the abuse of stray dogscatsrdquo he said ldquoHousing societies are trying to get rid of stray dogs by relocating them or abusing them with sharp objects Puppies are being stoned to death And people are also poisoning pregnant bitches People who are harming these animals can do the same to humansrdquoOn Sundayrsquos brutal incident Ashar said ldquoAn FIR is yet to be filed Our first priority was to get medical help for the dogrdquoTelepathic communicationSheetal name changed is a certified ldquotelepathic animal communicatorrdquo from Earthwise a Punebased institution that aims at ldquoeducating people of all ages in making the planet a better place to live inrdquo When the injured dog was taken to the clinic with no confirmation of whether she would survive Lobo called Sheetal requesting her to ldquotalkrdquo to the dog She sent Sheetal the picture and the video she had received so that Sheetal could ldquoseerdquo the dogldquoWhen she the dog gained some strength she gave me a vision of a man hitting her with a rod of some sort even piercing her front leg with itrdquo recalled SheetalAccording to her the incident occurred very late at night or early morning ldquoShe the dog had become very weak and I could feel her heavy breathing inside me Like she was going to shed her body because of the traumardquo