It has been a dream of mine since childhood to work with orphaned animals…ranging from dogs to primates to elephants ! :)
As a child I was notorious for bringing home stray puppies. I would beg to my mother to allow me to keep it. All I ever succeeded in was feeding the puppy some warm milk and taking it right back to wherever I had found it. The only time I succeeded was when I was in college and this doggy companion stayed with us for her entire life – a very enriching 15 years.
My grandmother used to recount an incident of the time when I was 4 years old. She had taken me to watch a movie. It was a story about how elephants are trapped by hunters and how they succeed in getting away. My grandmother told me that when the hunters trapped the elephants, I started bawling at the top of my voice and was inconsolable. She had to drop the movie mid-way and bring me home.
For the longest time ever I pestered my parents to get me a baby elephant or at least a chimpanzee or a baboon as a pet :D
An ex-colleague and I would dream of opening an orphanage for dogs and take care of them. Both she and I absolutely love dogs. Someday I will.
Recently I was surfing the Internet and saw several sites of organizations that work for orphaned animals. I noticed that in comparison to the Indian organizations, the ones abroad seemed far more organized and resource rich. Since that time, it has been playing on mind to reach out to some organization in my city and volunteer there. I would, of course, love to work with primates more than any other animals. Perhaps in the future I will gather required resources and volunteer in some organization that cares for primates.
I’m no longer in that age zone where you see everything with rose-tinted glasses. I realize the hardships that the people running organizations for orphaned animals face.
Still, I refuse to give up my dream. Someday it will come true.
I’ve always dreamt of a kind of “utopia” for animals with me making it happen :)
As a child I was notorious for bringing home stray puppies. I would beg to my mother to allow me to keep it. All I ever succeeded in was feeding the puppy some warm milk and taking it right back to wherever I had found it. The only time I succeeded was when I was in college and this doggy companion stayed with us for her entire life – a very enriching 15 years.
My grandmother used to recount an incident of the time when I was 4 years old. She had taken me to watch a movie. It was a story about how elephants are trapped by hunters and how they succeed in getting away. My grandmother told me that when the hunters trapped the elephants, I started bawling at the top of my voice and was inconsolable. She had to drop the movie mid-way and bring me home.
For the longest time ever I pestered my parents to get me a baby elephant or at least a chimpanzee or a baboon as a pet :D
An ex-colleague and I would dream of opening an orphanage for dogs and take care of them. Both she and I absolutely love dogs. Someday I will.
Recently I was surfing the Internet and saw several sites of organizations that work for orphaned animals. I noticed that in comparison to the Indian organizations, the ones abroad seemed far more organized and resource rich. Since that time, it has been playing on mind to reach out to some organization in my city and volunteer there. I would, of course, love to work with primates more than any other animals. Perhaps in the future I will gather required resources and volunteer in some organization that cares for primates.
I’m no longer in that age zone where you see everything with rose-tinted glasses. I realize the hardships that the people running organizations for orphaned animals face.
Still, I refuse to give up my dream. Someday it will come true.
I’ve always dreamt of a kind of “utopia” for animals with me making it happen :)
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