Unprecedented monsoon rains have caused massive flooding in Maharashtra, which killed hundreds and endangered countless animals at risk of drowning, starving and sick from sewage contaminated water.
Animal Rahat rescuers work their way through these flood waters, looking for frightened survivors and carrying them to safety.
One dog, trapped in a house surrounded by water, was crying so loudly that the Animal Rahat team heard it from several streets. They followed her screams and found that the flood had cornered her on a concrete slab and she had no way of getting food. When they approached her, she lowered her head and wagged her tail excitedly. Her eyes widened as a team member offered her some food! She quickly gulped down the food, and another team member made a homemade raft from a flexible board and an inner tube. The crew carefully put her on the raft and walked hundreds of yards to dry land.
In another flooded area, teams rescued a dog at the very last moment. She was desperately stomping water in a sugarcane field, with no sign of dry land, and was about to succumb to exhaustion.
One of Animal Rahat’s rescuers, Sharath, hugged her, gently soothing her, and worked his way through hundreds of yards of fields to find a way out of the water. Eventually he came to a construction site where she could be fed until the water subsided.
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