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Residents of Indisen village in Dimapur with their dogs during an anti-rabies vaccination on Saturday.[/caption]
Eastern Mirror Desk
Dimapur, July 14 (EMN): The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) along with the Veterinary department, Dimapur conducted a ‘free anti-rabies vaccination camp’ for pets on Saturday at Aokong Community Hall and Indesen Community Hall in Dimapur.
The camp was conducted under the banner “safety for your pets and you.” More than 150 pets, mostly dogs, along with its owners participated in receiving the free vaccination.
SPCA is a non-profit animal welfare organisation which aims to stop animal abuse around the world. It organises campaign for animal welfare, assist in the prevention of cruelty to animal cases, rehabilitation, and finding homes for maltreated and unwanted animals that can be re-established into new homes.
The executive secretary SPCA, Marian Rao, while speaking with Eastern Mirror shared about how humans should be humane towards animals; as animals also need the same love and affection just like humans do as they feel the same pain as humans do.
So to show affinity towards animals, the society organised the free vaccination camp.
Rao also shared about the frailty of the SPCA society. She said that it needs to have a proper land to step up infirmaries and animal shelters. “The state government, according to the law passed by the Supreme Court (SC), should provide an adequate land for the SPCA to set up infirmaries and animal shelters. So that once we build the shelter, we can start adopting animals and build a hospital for them,” she remarked.
“We have asked them so many times but we did not get any respond,” she confided.
On being asked about the financial stability of the SPCA society in Dimapur and how they are able to manage by giving free services and vaccination, Rao answered by saying that the state government does not provide any financial assistance but rather it is from the contribution of individual funds and the assistance offered by Dimapur Veterinary department.
Also, the vice president of SPCA, Dr. Joseph Lemtur while speaking with Eastern Mirror, shared the similar fate about its financial instability and the need for the SPCA to have a separate land to have full functionary power.
“We are solely dependent on individual contribution. As per the directive of SC, all the districts should have one SPCA and to do that, we should have an animal shelter.
That land should be provided by the government,” he explained by asserting on the point that Nagaland has a different land holding system.
According to Dr. Lemtur, except for departments, the Nagaland government does not have a separate “readymade” governmental land for society like the SPCA. “So we are in search of a suitable land,” he added.
The vice president complimented the Dimapur Veterinary department for providing an office room for them in Burma Camp.
He also shared about the positive feedbacks from the public by saying that the total enrolment for SPCA has exceeded 100.
