COIMBATORE: As beef stores are shut as a result of lockdown, very good Samaritans feeding stray dogs really are in a pickle.
They cannot purchase raw meat to prepare meals to strays and are made to get biscuits and milk, that are more costly.
K P Balakrishnan of Saibaba Colony, a part of an informal set of caninophiles, states that he packs 30 strays per day.
“I’d like to purchase 2kg poultry for Rs 120, such as flesh, fat and bones and cook it together with rice and then feed them.
By Monday, I’m purchasing four litres of milk, that’s the one thing available today, to make porridge for puppies.
As a few dogs aren’t utilised to this, I nourish them snacks, which cost me Rs 10 each pack.
Now I must shell out Rs 250 to Rs 300 per day” Meat deficit has also influenced Sumathi, a housekeeping team at Ramanathapuram, that packs 30 to 50 dogs around Olympus.
“I’d like to shell out Rs 100 to Rs 150 per day to purchase chicken for those dogs.
However, now I spend up to Rs 200 to Rs 250 to purchase branded pet food, biscuits and milk.
” Perur-based dog enthusiast S Gowri, that attempts alms to feed the strays away from the temple, claims she’s also fighting as fish store in the region have been closed.
“It was more economical to purchase heavy fish or karuvadu to prepare meals .
It is now hard to find funds for those dogs as I’m not permitted to seek alms because of the lockdown.
” Stray dogs are hungry as trash bins roads are vacant, states Balakrishnan.
“Because of its lockdown, the quantity of food dropped on roads has come .
Consequently, more dogs are now turning upward at the feeding period,” he adds.