Woman in India feeding homeless dogs during lockdown›

We are all doing our part to stay safe and most importantly, keep others safe right now. With essential workers the only people that should be out and about right now us gals are forever grateful to everyone on the frontlines, working the stores, running mass transit, delivering our dog food, and everything in between… but there is one woman in particular who has caught our eyes and more importantly our hearts. 

Below is pulled from National Geographic on the women after our own hearts. 

Each day, Lal prepares chicken and rice for scores of street dogs. Then she ventures out, during a nationwide stay-at-home order, to drop off the meals at various places around the southern Indian city of Puducherry. 

Lal is one of the animal lovers looking after India’s 35 million free-roaming dogs, many of which can’t find food during the world's largest lockdown to stop the spread of COVID-19. With shops and restaurants shuttered from March 25 until at least May 18, the canines’ main source of sustenance—garbage scraps—is gone.

Anticipating this problem, the Animal Welfare Board of India issued a letter two days before restrictions went into effect, declaring feeding “companion and stray animals is an essential service.” The letter encouraged cities to allow people to feed street animals during the lockdown because, without that aid, large numbers of animals would “suffer and die.”

A number of other cities, including Delhi and Jaipur, are issuing "feeder passes" that permit people to leave their houses to care for street animals—such as dogs, cows, birds, and monkeys—mostly on their own dime.

You can read more here! To support this mission and help the 200 million stray dogs worldwide please consider being a part of organizations like Global Strays, Soi Dog, or Help Animals India.