Most of our days begin with a phone call from our parents or a loved one, or with a warm greeting. However, for this 31-year-old Mangaluru resident, it normally begins with a phone call from someone like the railway officials, requesting him to rescue a mother snake and 30 eggs that the reptile had placed on a railway track. Tauseef Ahmed, an MBA graduate and real estate businessman who has become renowned as Mangaluru’s sole full-time animal rescuer and campaigner, lives like this every day.
In one of its first kinds of attempts, stray cattle will be tagged with ReflectiveCollars in Karnataka. The project took off in Byndoor, Udupi district, about 126 km away from Mangalore. This was one of the ambitious projects that Tauseef wanted to happen in Mangalore after the dogs were tagged, but due to certain confusion by the general public, he couldn’t go ahead.
The convenor of Bajrang Dal Byndoor unit, Sudhakar Shetty, had a word with Tauseef if he could get his collar procured, he would pay. He insisted that he would sponsor the collars and their team could tag them. The team was very happy. They are starting with 50 collars. For now, depending on the response and success rate, more cattle on the streets will be tagged. So many cattle die painful deaths, including pregnant cows sleeping on the roads at night or just crossing. The project was a big hit, bringing down accident rates drastically in the case of dogs. Hopefully, this will be a new ray of hope for cattle as well.
For those of you who are unaware, Project Reflective Collars was started in 2019 to help animals on the streets where the collars around their necks have reflective neon material which reflects at night on the roads, thereby avoiding accidents on the streets and saving both animals and two-wheeler riders’ lives. If anyone else around also has issues whereby a lot of stray cattle meet with accidents, collars can be arranged.
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