BCI (Blue Cross of India) Archives

BCI (Blue Cross of India) Archive

Entrance of Blue Cross of India | Photo credit: Blue Cross

Sep 30, 2024 Blue Cross of India: Pioneering Animal Welfare and Rabies Control for 60 Years

Posted at 12:16h In Animal Well-being, Articles, BCI (Blue Cross of India), Companion Animals, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil and Kathleen Rowan CEO, WellBeing International

In 1959, Captain V. Sundaram, his wife Usha and their son, S. Chinny Krishna (then almost 15 years old), were three of the four founding members of the Animal Aid Association in Madras (now Chennai) in southern India. 1964, the organization was formally registered as...

Nov 29, 2021 Global Dog Campaign Case Studies: Kabul, Afghanistan; Chennai, India; Heredia, Costa Rica

Posted at 09:56h In AHPPA (Asociación Humanitaria para la Protección Animal), Animal Well-being, Animals, Articles, BCI (Blue Cross of India), Companion Animals, Global Dog Campaign, Mayhew Afghanistan, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Kabul, AfghanistanAfghanistan recently experienced a change in government, leading to chaotic scenes at Kabul airport as countries evacuated their personnel and individual Afghan citizens sought to leave the country. Dogs were also caught up in this chaos as some animal advocates sought, mostly unsuccessfully, to...

Stray dogs of Pacifica Township in Chennai, India

May 18, 2021 The Stray Dogs of Pacifica Township, Chennai, India

Posted at 10:16h In Animal Well-being, Animals, Articles, BCI (Blue Cross of India), Companion Animals, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan

Most of the dogs in India are homeless stray dogs who survive mainly on handouts from people. While the keeping of pet dogs is increasing (almost doubled in the past decade), only around 10% of households have pet dogs (compared to 35% in the US...

Mar 12, 2021 Prani Mitra Award for Dr. S. Chinny Krishna

Posted at 09:06h In Articles, BCI (Blue Cross of India), Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan

In 1959, Chinny Krishna, then almost fifteen years old, was one of the four founders of the Animal Aid Association in Madras, India (now Chennai). Two of the three other founders were his parents. In 1964, the Animal Aid Association morphed into the Blue Cross...

Jun 11, 2020 Karuna for Corona – Feeding the Homeless Dogs

Posted at 07:46h In Animals, Articles, BCI (Blue Cross of India), Companion Animals, Tales of WellBeing - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

On March 24, the Indian government ordered a national 21-day lockdown as part of its response to the global Covid-19 pandemic. The lockdown has been extended several times and is now projected to last until June 30. This precaution has resulted in significant hardship for...

Dec 25, 2019 Rabies in Chennai and in India

Posted at 13:09h In Articles, BCI (Blue Cross of India), One Health, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

One of the more important recent papers on the role of dogs in rabies transmission was the paper by Reece & Chawla (2006). It described the elimination of human rabies cases in the center of Jaipur due to a street dog sterilization and vaccination program...