Brev fran volontar

I morgon aker jag med Superman till Palolem. Hoppas verkligen det gar bra, det blir en stor omstallning for honom, men far han bo i Palolem dar det knappt ar nan trafik samt en massa snalla vastlanningar ar det tusen ganger battre an sheltret.

Engelsmannen Chris har skrivit ett brev till Norma, vilket har upprort folket pa sheltret har. Jag skrev namligen ut brevet for att aven ge det till var chef Kamlakant. Han laste det, sen vet jag inte om han glomde brevet nar han gick eller om han gav det till veterinaren.
Veterinaren slog i alla fall ifran sej och Vasu blev arg och sa att om Chris vore har skulle han sla honom… Dom tal inte kritik.

Det har ar i alla fall brevet:

Dear Norma,

My name is Chris Wills and I recently spent four days volunteering at People For Animals’ rescue centre in Ponda. The staff were welcoming, I was impressed with the cleanliness and the care they show for the animals. However, there were some serious issues which are easy to correct:

The newly-appointed doctor is not good at prioritizing. Perhaps he needs to be told it is acceptable to make paying customers wait while the most urgent cases are treated first.

1) On Thursday afternoon I told Vasu, the doctor’s assistant, that one of the puppies had vomited clear liquid. Later in the afternoon I told the doctor himself the puppy was sick, had vomited and was dull. The next morning, Friday, I told the doctor the puppy had bloody diarrhea. In the early afternoon, several hours later, Vasu came to see the puppy and put it on a drip. As he put the drip into its leg, no blood came out as its heart had stopped. The puppy died as we attempted to treat it. Probably, this puppy had parvovirus and could not be saved. However, it could have been seen and put to sleep a lot earlier.

2) I saw a dog with a large maggot-infested wound below its neck near the bus and taxi rank in central Ponda. I did not trust that PFA would come to collect the dog, or, if they did, that they would return if they did not find it on the first trip. So I caught the dog around its neck with my hands, sustaining several bites, got in a taxi and brought it to PFA. With help from the kennel boys, we put her in a cage at about 9pm on Thursday. The wound was several inches across and several inches deep.

The next day, Friday, the doctor and Vasu were carrying out sterilization operations continuously all morning. I assumed that Vasu or the kennel boys, who had seen me bring the dog in, would tell the doctor about it. Shortly before lunch on Friday I asked the doctor, who said he had not been told about the dog, but would look at her after lunch. After lunch several customers brought in their pets for vaccinations and other relatively minor treatments; these cases were all treated first. At 5pm the doctor asked one of his assistants and a kennel boy, whose names I do not know, to treat the dog, which took 10 minutes. They removed 12 large maggots from her back.

In both cases it took nearly 24 hours for someone to examine seriously ill dogs, one of whom died. I understand the need for money from paying customers but in my experience, of both England and India, people are prepared to wait for a long time for doctors to see their pets, particularly if the treatment is cheaper than elsewhere. In both cases I have mentioned, customers would have needed to wait 20 minutes at most.

Post surgery

1) There appeared to be no regular checking of animals after surgery. I noticed a dog was bleeding quite heavily from its ear where it had been clipped too close. There was a large puddle of blood under its cage, so it had obviously been happening for some time. I told the doctor, who sent one of the kennel boys to put forceps on its ear to stop this. About 30 minutes later I checked on the dog; the forceps had come off and there was another large puddle of blood under the cage. I told one of the kennel boys who came and put a substance on the wound to help it coagulate. Around 20 minutes later I checked the wound again; the substance had not worked and there was again a puddle of blood under the cage. The dog was breathing very heavily, was dull and appeared in shock. It was like this for another 24 hours, suggesting it had lost a lot of blood. I’m almost certain that if I had not spotted the dog the first time, it would have died. Equally, if I had not gone back to check on it twice more, it may have died. Most surgery appears to be done in the morning, yet there appears to be no regular round of checking during the afternoon.

2) After surgery, most if not all of the animals at Ponda PFA come around from anaesthesia screaming and rolling around. This is not normal. I suggest the amount of ketamin being given to them is too high, as this can cause nightmares and extreme sensitivity during and after surgery.

I hope you can help address these problems. I do not doubt the competence of the staff at Ponda and that is why I feel they can achieve better. It is amazing that there is such a centre at all and I, as an animal lover, am very grateful there is one. I think you have done a fantastic job to set this up and I saw countless examples of animals at your centre being given very good and important treatment. The cases I have raised are easily remedied, particularly if you can enforce them yourself and personally see standards are being upheld.

Yours sincerely,

Chris Wills

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Ketamin anvands inte pa sheltret sa det stammer inte. Men i ovrigt… Var veterinar sa att en hund som har ett stort sar i nacken dar det kralar maskar inte ar ett prioriterat fall pa liv och dod, darfor kunde det vanta flera timmar…

Vi far se vad som hander nu, vad Norma svarar pa hans brev.

Nu far hundarna ris med kycklingfotter har. Jag forsoker motsaga mej det, for hundarna kan ju satta det i halsen, speciellt dom sma. Veterinaren haller med mej men gor ingenting. Det finns ingen kommunikation har.