Feeding furry friends- The New Indian Express

As featured by The New Indian Express on 21st April 2020…

HYDERABAD: Very morning Rachna Neja collects the milk packets the delivery person leaves at the gate of her home in Banjara Hills, pours the milk in a few plastic containers and puts them in the garden. From behind the Saptaparni tree come three meowing cats in grey, ginger and black fur to slurp the white drink. They then dig the mud and tumble on the ground licking their paws.

Rachna, who’s come to Hyderabad from Amritsar, has several cats back home. She says, “I live in a rented place here; others sharing the accommodation have left for their homes before the lockdown began. These cats, which used to come earlier as well, were hungry and I decided to order milk to feed them.” She also keeps sliced bread to give to the cats which have now made the garden their home. The 31-year-old pharmacist contacted Blue Cross for the animals to be adopted. A poster was circulated as well. But there are no takers till the lockdown is on. So, she’s adopted them for now.

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