Life on earth is more than just humankind. Along with human beings, a vast variety of animals and plants depend on Mother Earth for their survival. The pandemic has affected these lives equally, if not worse.

The infrastructural development in urban and semi-urban areas has made the lives of these animals depend on us humans. The strays in metropolitan cities and urban areas largely depend on food handed over to them by animal lovers, scavenged from the streets or trash cans. Some animal lovers also provide food for their neighborhood cats and dogs.

The COVID-19 lockdown not only made these strays go hungry for days but also made them susceptible to various kinds of diseases. They struggled to find food and water to survive, as the people who fed them couldn’t leave their houses.