Published 14:41 IST, May 15th 2020
Good News: Dog lovers in Hyderabad feed strays amid COVID-19 lockdown
A team in Hyderabad has stood up for the cause and has started feeding the street dogs around Osmania University campus as animals amid nationwide lockdown.
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Amid nationwide lockdown until May 17 to curb spre of vel coronavirus, millions across nation are confined to ir homes leaving stray dogs without food. A team in Hyderab has stood up for cause and has started feeding street dogs around Osmania University campus as animals were unable to get food from restaurant leftovers owing to ir unprecedented shutdown in face of global health crisis. Shashi Goud told a news ncy that OU campus is also closed leaving edible food for furry animals. This is reason that urged team to take action and rectify issue. Tarnaka Raju also said that ir team is currently feeding over 300 dogs every day.
Shashi Goud was quoted by ANI saying: “Street dogs here in Osmania University campus and nearby areas feed on leftover food from tiffin centres and canteens.”
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“After lockdown has started, canteens in OU campus are closed, due to which street dogs here have food to eat. That is reason we are feeding street dogs here. In campus, re are around 200 dogs. Our team goes around nearby areas. We feed chicken rice and curd rice to se dogs daily,” he ded.
Tarnaka Raju said, “Our team is feeding around 300 dogs daily, as canteens in this campus area are closed.”
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'Pass food challenge'
Meanwhile, a new trend #PassFood has been making several round son internet and is inspired by popular #PassBrush challenge. Internet users are taking up challenge to feed stray animals and are inspiring or people to do same amid coronavirus lockdown. unique challenge requires participants to feed stray animals outside ir homes and record a video while doing that, n post it online with #PassFood.
challenge will help animals living on streets amid lockdown as y are left alone with little or help while people are t allowed to go outdoors. Netizens posted videos by passing on biscuits as part of challenge to help strays outside ir houses, as many as possible.
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(With ANI inputs)
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14:41 IST, May 15th 2020