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Animals Saved From Suffering Fill Pages of Artful Publication
For Immediate Release:
26 November 2002
Contact:
Anuradha Sawhney Cell: 98201 22602, E-Mail: AnuradhaS@PETA.org
Mumbai — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have just published their animal-rescue calendar, which features portrait-quality photos and inspiring stories of animals FROM AROUND THE WORLD who were spared a life of suffering or impending death. The 2003 calendar, which is available from PETA for Rs 125 for members and Rs 150 for non-members, also highlights the following seven PETA-led events that made animal rights history in 2002:
- 5th May: In a landmark action, 37 abused monkeys and two goats were seized from the National Institute of Virology (NIV), in Pune, following the exposure of atrocious conditions at the laboratory by PETA Chief Functionary Anuradha Sawhney. The animals had been caged in filth and searing heat, many for more than a decade, and crippled by untreated illness and injury unrelated to research. Some had become disfigured or paralysed from the imprisonment and other abuse. Some had missing fingers, others missing teeth, and many were whirling around in circles from being driven insane by cage confinement. One of the rescued monkeys, whom NIV experimenters coldly referred to as ‘number 346’, is featured in the calendar’s May spread in full color and has since been renamed ‘Paro’. Now Paro and her companions live in a rehabilitation centre on the outskirts of Pune, where they have the opportunity to socialize, climb trees, play and enjoy the sunshine after years of privation.
- 28th March: Eight lions, four lion cubs and two tigers were freed from the cruel Grand National Circus after PETA, along with the Plant and Animal Welfare Society, informed the Wildlife Department of Thane that the circus was storing and breeding the animals, relegating the cats to small, filthy and rickety cages. The animals, who all had injuries, were transferred to the rescue centre at Tirupathi in Andhra Pradesh state.
- 21st May: PETA teamed up with Mumbai activists and police officials to rescue three geese who had been living for years in a Mumbai restaurant’s driveway without water to swim in or fresh food. PETA also removed seven geese from algae-infested water in a furniture showroom’s ‘display’. All 10 geese are now thriving in the green and rolling hills of a Maharashtra sanctuary.
- 28th May: Nineteen ailing monkeys at the Institute of Research and Reproduction in Mumbai were sent to a rehabilitation centre.
- 13th August: Thirteen snakes were rescued during Naagpanchami.
Check out the calendar’s pages for the month of July, where Timothy is featured. This once-captive turtle is now free to wander the wilds after PETA found a new home for him. The calendar explains that pet shop owners and animal market operators are not friends to animals like Timothy; instead, they are driven by profit and take animals from their natural habitats with no regard for their welfare.
The month of August has the heartwarming tale of Tulip, a mouse rescued by a PETA investigator from a laboratory where thousands of gentle rats and mice were crammed into tiny cages. Sick and injured mice, some with gaping wounds and enormous tumors, suffered excruciating deaths even though our investigator repeatedly begged laboratory supervisors to give the mice proper veterinary care.
‘Our “Rescued!” calendar tells a heartwarming story with each passing month’, says PETA Chief Functionary Anuradha 145;But it also reminds us that the animals need our voices to speak out for them and our actions to remove them from harm’s way and allow them to live the lives that they rightfully deserve’.
For more information, please visit PETAIndia.com.
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