SRIYA NARAYANAN
Sixteen-year-old Samyuktha Nair isn’t your average teenager. Having grown up with dogs in a home that treats pets as family, she enrolled as a volunteer with the Chennai Adoption Drive (CAD) last year to help find homes for rescued animals. “It was her idea and I just went with her,” says her proud mother Meenakshi. Their decision to help out changed many lives, particularly one cocoa-brown mongrel who was born on a construction site. The pup (Mia) and her siblings had been rescued by CAD
SRIYA NARAYANAN
Chennai Adoption Drive (CAD) is back with its regular event featuring adorable pups, kittens and adult animals for free adoption this Sunday. Families who have adopted at CAD events are now passionate spokespersons for the group. Says Radha Phukan who adopted her Indian kittens from a CAD event two months ago – “We adopted two sisters so they would have each other for company. CAD took a lot of care to give us instructions on what to do, and followed up on the pets”. Radha is delighted with her