BEWARE – Here is an eye-opener from a friend who had a terrible experience with Circle of Animal Lovers in New Delhi. We had been hearing a number of morbid stories about this place in the past, and a friend actually put it together in email to warn everyone.
“I just wanted to share this experience with you all. A few of my colleagues and I are crazy about animals and we take care of the dogs outside our office. We’d been thinking of getting them spayed and neutered for months and we finally called Circle of Animal lovers and sent four dogs to begin with, 3 males and 1 female, paying 300/- per dog.
We went to see them after 10 days since they hadn’t yet sent them back (they’d told us they’d be back in 7-10 days). It broke my heart to see them when we saw them. They’d lost weight, their stomachs had gone in completely, and they looked miserable. One’s stitches were open! We were told about that in the morning. By afternoon, when we went there, something should have been done about it. The place itself was disgusting, a drain ran through the place, it was just covered with an iron sheet.
They sent one back two weeks ago and another last week who is looking terribly weak. According to their website, they feed the dogs three times a day…
I doubt they are even fed once properly. They also took 200/- when we signed the release form. We certainly do not mind paying the money but give us our dogs back in a good condition. One more is coming back today, the one whose stitches opened. I only hope, they overcome this traumatic experience. We feel responsible and blame ourselves for not checking the place out properly but I hope this post will cause other animal lovers to think twice before sending either house pets or ’stray’ pets there. I apologize if this post seems all over the place, I’ve just been very upset by this episode.”
Smita’s comments – We have henceforth contacted Mrs. Irani Mukherjee, who is the person behind Circle of Animal Lovers, and haven’t received any serious explanations. A number of animal lovers in Delhi region are getting together to discuss on this and think of possible solutions. Any helpful suggestions you might have are welcome.