Wednesday, October 15, 2008

They are not our ENEMIES


Girls are not only about fashion or make up or the one who are always crying over little things in life. They are also about emotions that care about humanitarian family. A student of GGSIP University studying M.Sc. in Environment Management, Neha Bhagat has come out as a person who not only says glossy and things beyond imagination but believes in actually implementing it. Being an upcoming Environmentalist, her love and devotion for the most hated and unwanted creatures- Stray Dogs- are the perfect example of humanism.

The work started with a motivation from her sister Radhika at an early age. Both the sisters had been working for the street dogs of the colony of their homes in delhi for a long time. But she took the individualistic forefront in the GGSIP University itself. It is 18 months back when she found a stray dog named Beauty suffering from rabies. The disease made the poor creature look pale with thin body and no hair. She bought medicines on her own expenses and nourished him with food and medicines. Till now she had served many stray dogs in the university with the puppies. Her job carries from injecting the dogs with medicine to weeding out Maggots from their body, of taking the bleeding dog to the hospital to facing the unhelpful eyes of people on the way. These are some of the big no-no job for many but she does them not only as a part of her responsibility but out of love for them. In her whole endeavour, she had even been bitten by the dog several times and got herself injected. But it never pulled her away or feared her in performing her work.
Everyday thousands of stray dogs on the streets are beaten up, shooed and chased. In general we grow up hating them as they don’t look good, may bring diseases and are not the way the foreign good looking dogs are whom we consider to be our best friend. We may feel like this is a big problem for us, and, in all honesty, it is. But when the God of the universe stirs the hearts of His people to fulfil His purposes, who can stop Him? In such a way, she had come up as an angel to give them a new life ‘All- together.’
Dogs are considered to be our best friend but only if they are pet. As we don’t choose our parents, the same way dogs don’t chose whether they are to be a pet or a stray. They are not our enemies, we are required to go beyond the boundaries of ‘stray dogs’ and explore the other side of them. Then only we can find them cute and loving and experience their selfless and truthful love. They will definitely turn out to be our best friends.

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