{"id":4952,"date":"2005-01-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/01\/13\/2005-01-13-animals-suffered-and-died-in-tsunami-too\/"},"modified":"2005-01-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-13T12:00:00","slug":"2005-01-13-animals-suffered-and-died-in-tsunami-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2005\/01\/13\/2005-01-13-animals-suffered-and-died-in-tsunami-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Animals Suffered and Died in Tsunami, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"mailto:suparnaganguly@hotmail.com\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 8, 2005: The loss of human life in the tsunami was huge and frightening. But has anyone bothered to put a number to the animals that have also been affected? Domestic animals have been the worst hit. &#8220;Many owners left their pets behind. In some areas, dead cows can be seen tied to poles and trees,&#8221; says Pradeep Kumar Nath, honorary president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. &#8220;The animals which have been abandoned should be helped first, the dead buried and others rescued. The immediate requirement is for animal feed and medicines.&#8221; Adds Dr Kevin D&#8217;Mello, a vet with International Animal Rescue, who visited Pondicherry, Velankanni and Nagapattinam. &#8220;The biggest problem we foresee would be drinking water getting infected.&#8221; Animals activist Maneka Gandhi says, &#8220;Abandoned, wounded animals are at risk of starving to death. Also, being the beginning of the year, most corporates have sent huge funding for tsunami relief and have nothing for animals.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceNEW DELHI, INDIA, January 8, 2005: The loss of human life in the tsunami was huge and frightening. But has,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}