Rabab and Fayrouz Zaidi have, however, been working with street dogs since 2009 feeding Sweety and taking care of her tick fever in Bapanagar, New Delhi. Then moving to Pandara Park, and Motilal Nehru Marg, the tribe grew with Kallu, Minnie, Reena, and Calypso.
Now in Noida, Delhi and Gurgaon, and they have approximately forty-two dogs under their care. They take care of medical issues reflected in blood reports, and external wounds, and general oversight. The senior most, Reena, Chumki, and Chulbul are at home with Rabab. Traditionally, the ones who need intensive care come to Rabab's home for personalized and intensive care. Later on if health permits, they are released in their areas or then go to a designated boarding.
As much as possible, she tries to keep the street pets warm in the winter with wooden and tube houses (Jagjit Singh ones), blankets, burlap mattresses, and tarpaulin covers for the whole house. She and her volunteers provide fresh water in the summer, the big basin for which the street pets often like to use as a swimming pool pretty often.
QB has rescued more than twenty-five dogs who needed to be off the streets for medical and social/safety reasons. Aditya and Rabab rescued Sweety the mother and her three one day old puppies. Most are housed in proper pet boardings, and the senior ones in Rabab's home. Chulbul, twelve, Chumki thirteen, and Reena, fourteen plus live with Rabab in her home. As of today, about 11 are in a homely boarding in Greater Noida, and a rescued puppy in Gurgaon. The remaining Noida ones are on or around her street. About nine are in Pushp Vihar, New Delhi who are fed daily, and treated as and when the need arises.
Our prime aim is to help our street pets settle in a pleasant sanctuary where they will be safe from the challenges of street life. This will be especially helpful as they surely but slowly approach their senior years with compromised hearing, eyesight, movement, and need for close medical monitoring.
We do wish to collaborate and set up a comprehensive hospital for small animals in Noida which will be of benefit to pet parents and animals in surrounding areas where facilities are either absent or inadequate.
We envisage adoption drives to find loving homes for rescued puppies, dogs, kittens, and cats. With experience, however, it is quite a daunting task especially when adoption involves adult animals. Rabab has been successful in getting some of her puppies adopted by caring families, but with some she has not been so lucky , and has kept them in boardings.
Her Noida dogs are completely sterilized. QB is working on the Delhi dogs at present, and hopes in six months they will be neutered as well but the task can be a bit challenging especially when new ones join.
With the support of excellent vets for new and corrective treatment, Rabab Zaidi and team has helped to rehabilitate Koya with triple fractures and breathing difficulty, Chumki with severe UTI and who was unable to pass urine even once in 24 hours. Chulbul is at home and is rehabilitated after double fractures, and is manually helped by Rabab and her helper to enable Chulbul to pass urine since he is unable to completely empty his bladder by himself.
Chamiya is rehabilitated after a fracture and so is Jenny. Chamiya stayed with Rabab while she recovered. Kenzo's neutering surgery ended in severe infection in a medical boarding which Rabab then personal took care of at her home with continuous wound flushing, and medicines until he finally recovered.
Goldie has been rehabilitated after she was hit by a car and became paralyzed(hind legs). A good Samaritan sponsored her laser treatment, and the results of which helped her to heal, to be up and about, and running and jumping freely in all of three and a half months!
There is one feeding program in Noida for the street pets, and the second one in Pushp Vihar, New Delhi. The recently rescued puppy, Sai, is in Gurgaon and is being fed by its boarding house of course.
We also spread awareness about compassion, and try to deepen the love and understanding between humans and animals with concepts of oneness/non-duality, space sharing, similar emotional needs, thereby encouraging and perpetuating peaceful co-existence.
We are working on a short film project for which if funding is granted, should go a long way in spreading messages of empathy and harmony between man and our sentient animal friends.
QB looks forward to your continuing support in this combined endeavor to spread loving kindness all around, and to create a much needed environment of trust, harmony, and peaceful coexistence with respect for all sentient beings and all inhabitants of mother earth.
