Unfortunately, as you see every month, animal suffering abounds in rural India, and animals in dire circumstances are everywhere you turn. Animal Rahat never hesitates to take action. When one of our staffers spotted a young man trying to sell these two quail for meat (which is illegal), he immediately confiscated them and released them.

Another staffer promptly confiscated this cart after seeing a dog forced to bear the yoke and give rides to children. Dogs in rural India have enough problems—such as dangerous traffic, parasites, and a scarcity of food and water—without being forced to be “beasts of burden.”

One such problem for dogs (and other small animals) is snare traps. Nomadic tribespeople often set wire snare traps on other people’s farmland in order to catch rabbits to eat. Hardly a month goes by in which we don’t come across a dog who has fallen victim to a snare. Luckily, we found this dog in time to remove the wire before it could do any serious damage.