Articles by Vignesh Mahadevan

Vignesh Mahadevan, still in his teens, is an ardent animal lover and runs an animal adoption centre, the Almighty Animal Care Trust. To know more about him, read: http://chennai.citizenmatters.in/vignesh-mahadevan-chennais-16-year-old-animal-rescue-activist-2328

I write this after a recent visit to the Animal Birth Control Centre on Basin Bridge Road run by the Corporation of Chennai. The official mandate of the pound is to catch our stray dogs based on regular inspection and specific complaints from the public, sterilize and immunize them against rabies and then release them in the same area where they were caught as per Animal Birth Control Rules. However, my visit has left me with such heart-breaking sights and experience, that I feel responsible to do all that is needed to relieve the dogs in the pound from the…

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