বাংলাদেশ - ঢাকা: Saturday, February 22, 2014

This post is dedicated to Tammy! <3

The other day I went to do something and encountered these adorable creatures.

A litter of stray puppy dogs staying opposite a park down the road from where my house is.

The majority of both Sunni and Shi'a Muslim jurists consider dogs to be ritually unclean. It is uncommon for practising Muslims to have dogs as pets.

There are a number of traditions concerning Muhammad's attitude towards dogs. He said that the company of dogs, except as helpers in hunting, herding, and home protection, voided a portion of a Muslim's good deeds. On the other hand, he advocated kindness to dogs and other animals.

HSI has been working closely with officials in Bangladesh, where dog bites are very common—many of them causing rabies. With more than 2,000 deaths every year (WHO, 2007), Bangladesh is a country with one of the highest per capita ratios of rabies in humans.

With so many rabies cases, the Bangladesh government had taken to conducting mass dog culls in an attempt to prevent the disease from spreading. The dogs were killed in the cruelest manner, by catching them with iron tongs and injecting magnesium sulfate into their hearts, or at times breaking their bones or smashing their heads.

A few years ago, Rubaiya Ahmed founded Obhoyaronno, a non-governmental organization with a focus on street dog welfare.

HSI has partnered with Obhoyaronno to better the lives of street dogs in Bangladesh through multiple meetings with government officials and ongoing training in spay/neuter and humane capture of dogs.

So cute and so miserable.

I went off to the supermarket to get water, dog food and bowls.

Before when the puppy's were trying to suck milk, the mother would go away. But now drinking and feeding her body most likely transformed the input into milk for the little ones.