Brutal Reality in Rural Areas, Ignored by the System:
Farm
animals in rural India are often “checked” by undertrained vet assistants, with
no proper diagnosis, no blood work, and no access to emergency care.
If a
cow, bull, or goat can’t stand or walk, it is quietly sold to slaughter, not
treated, not rehabilitated.
Farm
animals are worked to the bone, and once they unable to work or collapse,
they’re off to slaughter, often illegally and inhumanely. No sedation, no pain
relief, no compassion.
Pain
is not seen as a reason to help; only profit matters.
Community
Dogs Face Worse Fates:
Dogs Are the most misunderstood victims In
many villages, dogs are viewed as pests, not protectors.
No
one vaccinates or sterilizes them, but when their numbers rise or they fall
sick, they’re poisoned, beaten, or abandoned.
Dogs
are starved, beaten, or killed simply for chasing hens or walking into fields,
not realizing the dog was hungry, not dangerous
Puppies
are left to die from parvo, distemper, or maggot wounds, with zero intervention
or even a chance at survival.
There
is no regulation, no monitoring, no humane protocol for injured animals in
villages.
One
Health: Why This Matters to Us Too
Ignoring
animal health is not just cruelty, it puts human lives in danger.
Sick
livestock spread brucellosis, TB, anthrax, leptospirosis to the same families
who depend on them.
Unvaccinated
dogs have high risk of rabies, particularly when they encounter wildlife, its
fatal but preventable disease.
Unsafe
slaughter practices contaminate food and water.
When
animals suffer without care, humans will suffer with them.
Who
Is Responsible?
Instead
of blaming dogs for bites or calling them “villans,” people should ask a harder
question:
Why
are government veterinary hospitals empty?.
Why
are many vets busy in private practice, while government hospitals have no
doctors, no medicines, no accountability? There are doctors who don’t even touch
the animals when brought to veterinary centers. Most of the doctors are not
available in their duty hours.
It’s
the System Failing the Voiceless.
The
Truth
Community
dogs are protectors of villages, they guard farms, warn families, and love
children without expecting anything back.
Farm
animals are the backbone of rural life.
If
we continue to treat them like trash, both animal welfare and public health
will collapse together.
Protecting
animals is not charity, it is One Health.
It is protecting our families, our villages, and our future.
by SCAN FOUNDATION
