A female dog that was found with an eviscerated abdomen after it was released from the Animal Birth Control (ABC) centre run by Hosur Corporation was spotted by a community dog rescuer on Friday (August14), who shifted it to the government polyclinic in a critical state.
The incident occurred the morning after the dog was dropped back from the ABC centre after the mandatory five-day post-sterilisation recovery.
According to Ajay, the dog rescuer, the affected dog was among a few dogs picked up from his neighbourhood last week. On Thursday, it was released along with other dogs back in the same layout.
“She was very aloof. On Friday morning, I noticed something red coming out of her surgical site. As time passed, it was the intestines that were falling out. She was trying to bite at her own intestines,” he said. Mr. Ajay took photographs of the dog and shared it with the dog catchers and other animal carers.
He immediately took the dog to the government polyclinic. Apparently, the surgical site that should have had three levels of suturing— one each at the muscle, sub-cutaneous and at the skin— was, however, missing two levels of sutures.
The dog was brought on time and sutured back before necrosis set in. “There is the real danger of peritonitis, where infection sets into the abdominal cavity if not administered with antibiotics,” says Shwetha, a Bengaluru-based rescuer and activist, who attempted to shift the dog to Bengaluru for treatment.
However, as Ajay was fighting to save the dog, he reportedly kept receiving calls from Kalaimani, the doctor-in-charge of the ABC centre. “As soon as I shared the photos to the workers, the doctor came on line and asked me to delete the photos if I had shared them with anyone. He asked me to bring the dog to the ABC centre, but I had already taken her to the government polyclinic, where the government veterinarians sutured her up,” claimed Mr. Ajay.
In April, another female dog was similarly found with an eviscerated abdomen, with dropping intestines. Pranimitran, the NGO in charge of the ABC programme under Hosur Corporation at that time, had its contract cancelled though not for this particular case, but due to numerous complaints against it in Coimbatore and Tiruppur, where it was responsible for the ABC programme.
Dr. Kalaimani, who had worked with Pranimitran on community dog sterilisation programme, stayed on to be put in charge of the ABC programme under the new NGO, International Trust of Peace. The months of June and July have seen a pile up of complaints about missing dogs, and unaudited dog deaths among others.
The Hindu contacted Animal Welfare Board member Prabhavathy, who was alerted of the incident by animal activist Thilaga, with the supporting evidence of Mr. Ajay’s dog. “I spoke to Dr.Kalaimani and he says he did not do the surgery. However, it was his duty to inform me of the incident, given the multiple complaints against him. He is in charge of the centre. I have alerted the Chief Executive Officer of the AWB on this fresh complaint.”
Dr. Kalaimani was earlier issued a memo for not conducting post-mortem on dog deaths post sterilisation.
The Hindu also reached the Corporation Health Officer Ajitha, under whose control the ABC programme falls. She too was unaware of and had not been informed about the Friday’s incident. “I was on leave, and I am catching up on things at the Corporation,” Dr. Ajitha said.
Published – August 16, 2026 08:48 pm IST
