Television actress & fashionista Debina Bonnerjee is also a self-confessed animal lover. Debina’s home is a shelter for two adorable dogs, one of which, Lucky is adopted that was abandoned on the streets in her vicinity earlier.
Debina recently learned about Lucky suffering from cancer & is on a mission to fight it, ‘It took a day to sink in when we found out. Lucky’s paw is infected & I’m told it is a usual occurrence with dogs. He is a fighter who survived on the roads for months & now he will survive cancer too.’
The 10-year-old dog was adopted by Debina-Gurmeet 2 years ago, Debina shares a heartwarming story, ‘I think he found us rather than us finding him. A friend found him on the streets & had been feeding him for 2 months but when Lucky fell ill, my friend asked if I could go & help her. She said we could take some photos & put it up on social media, so that somebody could adopt him. But when I saw Lucky, I just fell in love with him & brought him home. Gurmeet & I took care of him but we realized, he was very unwell & couldn’t even stand properly. That’s when we realized we couldn’t give him away as he was a part of our family.’
Debina plans to create an awareness about the illness in the animals, ‘ I am determined to find out as much as I can about animal hospitals & what can be done to help him. In Mumbai, the awareness about illness in animals is very limited. People didn’t know that an animal can also suffer from this illness.’
