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Aaditi Badam, a Ghaziabad-based physiotherapist, recently left her career to use her skills to help abandoned and disabled animals get back on their feet and start walking again.
She once rescued a pup with spinal injury and took him to a veterinary doctor, who advised her to put the pup to sleep because the pup couldn't walk. This incident, she says, turned her life around.
She quit her career and decided to rescue injured animals, and also participate in awareness drives and fight for rights of the abandoned. Julie, the puppy she rescued, is in a happy-go-lucky state, and this gave Aaditi a whole new perspective about caring for animals.
Deciding to put her skills to use on a larger scale, Aaditi started the NGO – POSH Foundation in Noida – which works in rescuing stray animals, fighting for their rights, and creating awareness among the public. She started giving more physiotherapy treatments for dogs like Julie and realised that like humans, these exercises are used not just to ease pain, but also improve the strength and balance, along with mobility and flexibility of the pets.
Ranbir Virk, an animal rights activist, took to Facebook to applaud the work done by Aaditi. “ Abandoned, rescued, injured as well as disabled dogs are treated here with medical care and love. I was lucky enough to meet her on that day. It was really inspiring to see the happy dogs no matter in what condition they were ,” he wrote. Not only did he declare that he would volunteer at the shelter on weekends, he also called for his friends to volunteer at the shelter.
Her ultimate goal is to start a physiotherapy centre for animals where her team would provide professional care for the disabled and injured pets, with the help of state of the art equipments and technology such as treadmill for pets, balance board, and an elevated pool among others. POSH therefore, she says, is just a beginning and that she hopes to achieve the target soon.
(With inputs from The Better India)
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