{"id":14084,"date":"2013-09-29T01:18:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T19:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=14084"},"modified":"2013-09-29T01:18:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T19:48:17","slug":"rabies-vaccination-drive-in-trivandrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/rabies-vaccination-drive-in-trivandrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabies Vaccination Drive in Trivandrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of \u201cWorld Rabies Day\u201d on 28th September, <strong>Animal Care Trivandrum<\/strong> has come up with rabies vaccination drive to save the stray dogs from the deadly Rabies infection. The anti-Rabies vaccination drive which began on 24th September and will conclude on <strong>Sunday 29th<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Rabies Vaccination Drive is carried out with the help of Mission Rabies team which was formed by the<strong> World Veterinary Service (WVS)<\/strong>. The organization aims to vaccinate 50,000 dogs in India in 30 days.\u00a0 Already, Mission Rabies team has vaccinated more than 45,000 dogs in the past month. The team functions by appointing dog catchers and vets who capture and vaccinate maximum number of dogs in a particular hotspot location.<\/p>\n<p>Animal Care Trivandrum along with World Veterinary Service aims to vaccinate as many dogs against rabies as possible. The main focus areas in Trivandrum City will include &#8211; Shankhumunkham Beach, Community hall Rajaji Nagar, Kovalam beach, Technopark and surrounding area and PFA shelter &#8216;Karthika&#8217; Anayara P.O and surrounding areas. As part of the rabies vaccination drive A.C.T has hosted an awareness event called \u201c<strong>Music for Animals<\/strong>\u201d in Kovalam on 28th September. There was live music, dance, entertainment and buffet at the event.<\/p>\n<p>Animal Care Trivandrum was formed by 3 separate animal welfare groups \u2013 People for Animals, Street Dog Watch Association and RAKSHA animal welfare club &#8211; focusing on the sterilisation, vaccination and re-homing of rescued dogs and cats. A.C.T has already rescued and re-homed more than 100 dogs and cats and organised educational workshops for children to raise awareness.<\/p>\n<p>ACT also promotes Animal Birth Control and Anti Rabies Vaccination Programs, along with pet adoption drives and awareness programmes on Animal welfare. They have successfully organized two pet adoption drives in the city with the last two months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Call Street Dog Watch Association Kovalam &#8211; +91 8086 5671 01<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of \u201cWorld Rabies Day\u201d on 28th September, Animal Care Trivandrum has come up with rabies vaccination drive to save the stray dogs from the deadly Rabies infection. The anti-Rabies vaccination drive which began on 24th September and will conclude on Sunday 29th. The Rabies Vaccination Drive is carried out with the help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}