Andhra Pradesh Police Rescue Stranded Puppies, Unites With Their Mother Amid Floods

In a heartwarming moment, Andhra Pradesh police attended to a street dog's mute cries for help at Ithavaram village in NTR district to rescue its puppies stranded in an abandoned house amid floods.

The incident took place beside National Highway number 65 (NH 65) in Nandigama mandal, which connects Hyderabad and Vijayawada, and is located near the Telangana border. "We were engaged in managing the vehicular traffic on the highway amid flood conditions on Friday and our DCP Ajitha Vejendla noticed that a dog was strangely lingering around us. She directed us to attend to it," Nandigama ACP Janardhan Naidu told PTI on Sunday.

Two policemen and a policewoman in fatigues followed the dog to the house. As the dog waited, police waded through the pool of flooded water before the locked house, jumped over the compound wall and rescued two puppies. They washed the puppies and reunited them with the mother dog. Initially, we did not bother much about the dog as we were busy clearing the traffic but on pondering a little, we identified that the dog was running back and forth between us and the house where its puppies were stuck.

According to Naidu, floodwater got stranded in front of the house around 3 pm on Thursday while the police noticed the dog’s predicament on Friday afternoon, about 20 hours after losing contact with its puppies. Further, he noted that the exhausted dog also did not bark much but was only running around for help while the puppies also became weak. After reuniting the puppies, he said the mother dog fed them milk and rejuvenated them. Later, the cheerful canines slipped into the village.

Recently, swollen Munneru river, a tributary of Krishna river, cut off traffic on the highway and flooded the areas in and around Nandigama. Monsoon rains have led to the major Godavari and Krishna rivers along with its various tributaries receiving large volumes of floodwaters over the last few days.