There’s this thing about grieving. The world yearns you to snap out of it and yet there in your head you keep playing the elegy on repeat like a broken vinyl record, hoping for a different tune. And all this while you wait and wonder if there’s a way to turn your grief into something positive.
Sometimes there is.
Meet Padmini Stump, the Pune dog lover and founder of animal welfare organization Mission Possible. Padmini began rescuing dogs eight years ago, when her son collapsed in a fatal accident in Dubai, where her family is based.
This Pune dog lover is making a gigantic difference to the lives of stray dogs!
For over eight years, Padmini and her family friend, renowned oncologist Dr Ravindra Kasbekar, have been looking after the injured and abandoned dogs of Pune.
Padmini has built sheds in the open area around her bungalow, Gulshan Mahal, where she shelters the recuperating animals. The modest facility that she started has since become a buzzing rescue and adoption Centre. With nearly 100 dogs being treated and looked after at any given time, and over 1,400+ adoptions till date, Mission Possible is doing great work for the canine cause.
What is in it for this lady who hops between Pune and UAE to rescue, vaccinate and foster these homeless animals? Why not stay where her grandchildren are, far from the cacophony of neighbors who can’t understand what she does.
“After that I tried everything from praying to satsang, but nothing brought me peace. Helping these animals is worship to me, and gives me solace that if I couldn’t save my son’s life at least I can save theirs.”
Hope for Pune’s strays
Padmini keeps coming across poignant lives of pawed pals – dog with an ear blown off by a firecracker, dog with his eyes gouged and a multitude of road injury cases. Thanks to the care that these patients receive at Mission Possible, they get a second lease of life. In a slow manner, they have also taken to trusting humans, all over again.
However not everyone has celebrated this kind woman’s spirit, she has met with resistance from neighbors who complain of ‘noise’ and ask her to not nurse injured dogs in her bungalow.
“I can’t close my doors on the needy. Moreover, it’s my property. It’s not as if I have encroached on someone else’s property to shelter these animals. How can someone else dictate about who can stay? I am helping the destitute.”
Dog with Blog urges our Pune readers to please help this kind lady via volunteering at the shelter or by adopting one of the Indian dogs Padmini so lovingly cares for. We are sure that like Padmini, you too would rediscover your smile in the jocund company of the canine. Dr. Kasbekar who cares for the dogs between his surgeries at the city hospitals, helps with sterilization of street dogs as well.
May I please have your email id?
Please can i volunteer at your place?
Hi Meghna, we don’t have a physical facility as such… we work as a network of dog lovers spread across the country.
I would like to learn, explore and experience with you.
Today while returning from camp just now at 1.30 at night , i have seen a stray dog , hurt badly on his fore head ,near taj bakery chudaman talim , if you can help that dog please help him ,he is badly injured , for god sake please help poor guy
Unfortunately we don’t have a presence in Pune 🙁
Request you to contact Mission Possible (91-9921881894) or a Pune based vet urgently!
If you find a dog with a deep wound, please do give it IVERMECTIN or Ivermectol or Ivoral Forte. That simple medicine can prevent maggots which settle in deep wounds and kill the dog by eating its flesh.
We can’t always take in strays, but we can give a medicine and prevent it’s suffering.
It needs usually just one administration.
Actually one month ago a street dog came to my house and at that time he had a wound on his leg, i wanted to cure it so i used to pour some antiseptic solution (dettol) on wound but it was not that effective and due to that wound, the region below his mouth got infected and now blood is coming out from that region and insects are eating his flesh at that region. Can you please help me. Will your suggested medicine IVERMECTIN will work in my case. It’s a humble request please help me