Gender: Female
Age: 8 months
Arrived at KAT: July 2025
Health condition: Healthy
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KAT Centre cares for thousands of street dogs every year and while most are released or re-homed, some, due to their age or injuries, end up requiring months of care and never become well enough to be released. With low rates of adoption for dogs like these, they often face the prospect of having to live out the rest of their lives within the shelter of KAT Centre.
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Meet Junkiri. She had a very rough start to life, and it’s truly a blessing that she is still alive.
When she was just 1 month of age, barely old enough to have her eyes open, she and her siblings were thrown out of a moving car from a bridge into a river. Her brothers and sisters were not so lucky, but Junkiri was blessed; she fell into enough water to cushion the fall and avoid the rocks, but shallow enough that she did not drown.
We don’t know how many days she was lying in the river, half submerged in mud and water. She was too young to crawl or even bark at that age, but eventually a local person saw that she was still wriggling and reported the puppies to KAT. Our team arrived immediately to find that Jukiri was the only survivor of the litter of 4 pups.
Once she was rescued by KAT, her ordeal was far from over. Being so young and weak, she was on critical life-support for many weeks. So low were her chances of survival, she was not given a name, as a way of lessening the emotional toll on our staff if she did not make it. But thanks to the amazing skills of Dr Samir and the dedication of our team (who took it in turns volunteering to stay with Junkiri overnight and syringe-feed her) she was able to slowly make a recovery.
Her full physical recovery took 5 full months, and her psychological recovery is ongoing. When people visit KAT, it takes many days or even weeks before they are able to touch Junkiri, as she is extremely fearful of humans (rightly so!).
The only person she allows to touch her right now is Monica, and Junkiri has a strong fear of men. She spends most of the day isolating herself, away from other dogs and people. When time permits Monica takes her to the fields near KAT to relax, away from the noise of the hospital. Junkiri loves sunbathing there and sleeping in the grass. She is still recovering from her trauma and we hope one day will feel safe enough at KAT to play with other dogs and learn that not all humans are bad.
We are currently working on getting videos of Junkiri uploaded.
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Kathmandu Animal Treatment Centre UK © | Charity registration no: 1137647
Kathmandu Animal Treatment Centre © | Kumari Marg, Mandikhatar, Kathmandu, Nepal | UK registration no: 1137647
