Bindiya came to us in January 2021 at just three months old. She was found tied to a tree, struggling to breathe and unable to walk properly. Her symptoms resembled the signs of rabies so we had to quarantine her when she was first rescued. But after a few days, she was still eating and able to walk… just in a drunken manner. This ruled out rabies as the cause of her symptoms, but she was kept in quarantine because her symptoms also resembled the deadly distemper. She continued being treated with pain medication and antibiotics and slowly improved over the following few weeks.

Gradually Bindiya’s breathing became more normal and she began to show the playfulness of a puppy her age; running around, playing with other dogs, and chewing anything she could find.