Meet Sweety
My Story
My brother and I were born high up in the mountains during winter 2020. It was so cold, but our mother kept us warm, allowing us to snuggle into her. But despite her best efforts, our brothers and sisters died one by one. Then not long after we were born, our mother went out to get some food…. and never returned. Like so many dogs that live in the mountains, she was taken by a leopard. We were left alone in the snow, just one week old. We should have died of hypothermia, but we were lucky; a nice lady found us and made us warm bed. She fed us, cared for us, and found us a safe and loving place to live.
Sweety and her brother would never have survived more than a day or so after their mother was killed by a leopard.
But luckily a tourist living in the village found them, took them in, and hand-reared them. Against all the odds, she managed to keep them alive through the most critical first months of their lives.
But during this time they developed a skin condition passed on from their mother; mange caused them to lose their fur and develop sore itchy, infected skin.
In the midst of this, they also contracted parvo virus. The caring tourist got them the treatment they needed, giving all the medications herself. After a week of intensive treatment they pulled through, but their problems didn’t end there.
Because of the onset of the Covid pandemic, the tourist had to move and could not take the two pups with her. She reached out to the local community and found a fosterer, but that fell through after just a few days. We had just started renting a property for Manali Strays, so agreed to take them in, and they have been with us ever since.
Why can't Sweety be released back to the streets?
Sweety has never lived on the streets properly, being cared for by people since she was just one week old. Therefore, she would have no idea how to survive. It would be like dumping your pet on the street and expecting them to know what to do.