Mumbai : Terrified of loud Diwali fireworks, an 11-year-old Indie dog, Raksh , who has resided inside a Parsi fire temple all his life, darted out and across the city streets in south Mumbai and was found only after three days at Oval Maidan, looking exhausted and dazed.
On the evening of Nov 7, Ervad Hormuz Dadachanji, priest of the Parsi Vaccha Gandhi Fire Temple at Hughes Road, was informed that Raksh was missing. He then approached the police and lodged a missing complaint.
We were therefore relieved to finally find him at Oval Maidan, after one of our contacts saw him there.”
“He was dazed and weak, and did not even have the strength to greet me,” an elated Hormuz said. Hormuz said, “We were so worried about Raksh that we had forwarded missing pet posters across several social networking sites. Raksh is back home with his family. He has been named after the Iranian war hero, Rustam’s horse, Raksh. We even got in touch with ‘dog communicators’ who use their intuitive prowess to gauge where the missing dog could be.