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Veterinary Hospital Kohima
World Animals Day is observed on 4th October, An International day celebrated to create awareness among people regarding animals on;
1. To raise the status of animals and improve upon their welfare standards.
2. Recognize animals as sentient beings and to respect their feeling.
So on this day let us show kindness and compassion to our animals and spread some awareness about Animal Basic Rights. Animal are asset of our society. They have feeling and emotion like human being, therefore it is the responsibility of every human being to love, care and protects our animal and prevents cruelty, abuses by beating/hitting and force animal to struggle and work. There are various ways to take care of our animals such as adoption of stray homeless animals by providing shelter and food, by treating the injured/sick/disease animals with our love, care and compassion and alleviating their suffering.
Animals have as much of right to live as we human being do and we owe them much for our work, food, eggs, and home companions. The least we can do for our animals are to provide them with their basic rights.
Some of the Basic Rights of Animals are as follows
1. Animals should be housed in a safe building with fire safety equipment and an evacuation plan.
2. The animal house should be away from sound, dust and air pollution.
3. The house should have adequate ventilation, light and clean portable water.
4. Sufficient floor space with the freedom for movement without overcrowding, obstruction, injury or fear.
5. Any injured sick/disease pets/domestic animals should have adequate ventilation, light and clean portable water.
6. Adequate well balanced diet to be provided.
7. Timely vaccination and de-worming and regular check-up of animals
8. Transporting pet/domestic animals should be accompanied with health record certificate.
9. Temperature and weather condition are to be taken into consideration for pet/ animals to move from one place to another either by road/train/flights.
10. It is the bounded duty of the pet owner to groom, train, exercise, helps the pet to socialize and to provide timely basic health facilities.
11. Animals should be treated with respect throughout their lives and provide a more humanly practises during slaughtering.
Rights of animals should be propagated not only to the pet /livestock owner but also to the general public by educating people through radio talk, press media, seminar/workshop in school and colleges etc. We should all stand together and work for the welfare of all pet/animals that are voiceless.
“Be kind to animal, Unseen they suffer, In agony they die, Is it nothing to you? All ye who pass by”
