Karuna Cattle Hospital, located at Enumullapalli, admits inpatient cows, bulls, donkeys, ponies for treatment and surgery. It also has a camel under its care.

With the help of AWBI, we have constructed a hospital with an operation theatre and an inpatient care facility. We are constructing the intensive care unit with foreign donations.

We provide shelter, nursing facility, feed, grass and water. We apply mechanical lift facilities for disabled animals. Outpatients are welcome for second opinion and treatments.

Animal Husbandry or Animal welfare?

Throughout India, the animal husbandry department has established government veterinary hospitals. Those are meant mainly for productive and commercial animals (bulls, cows, goats, sheep and chickens). The immediate aim is income (draught, milk and meat) for the sake of poor people and farmers as well as to prevent diseases and disaster for human health. The welfare of the animals is not the main issue for them.

Government hospitals do not take inpatients and they will not look at stray animals, including stray donkeys. Their staff is not trained for animal nursing. Only owners who bring their animals to the hospital will get medical treatment. The government provides hardly any medication except some necessary vaccinations. One important purpose of the government hospitals is the artificial insemination for upgraded buffaloes and cross breed cows.

Many medical problems occur for milk cows related to conception, pregnancy and birth of calves. Most of these problems are man made, caused by the system of artificial insemination performed by incompetent medical staff, the breeding of cross breed cows for higher milk production. Male calves of these animals are not useful for agricultural work. Hence, they are starved to death or go for slaughter.

The result is a lot of meat production from cattle, chicken and goats. Cow slaughter and animal sacrifice are both illegal but generally accepted and transport of animals to slaughterhouses breaks all the rules and involves immense cruelty. Droughts and natural calamities play a role in the selling of animals for slaughter.

To counteract the above suffering and mismanagement, Karuna Society favors the Indian cow for agricultural use, little milk and no slaughter at all. The reproduction of these animals should happen naturally by a healthy local breed bull.

Thanks to the medical care and the surgery we provide, many cows and cattle have a second chance and will not be sent for slaughter.