‘She cries all day & night’ — a dog’s desperate wait for lost puppies in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli

A dog looking for her lost puppies in Uttarakhand's Chamoli after the flash floods. | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht/ThePrint

Chamoli: The devastation left behind by the Uttarakhand deluge has not just been limited to human lives. In Raini village, close to the site of the Rishi Ganga Hydropower Project, a Bhutia dog waits for the return of her puppies that were washed away by the floods.

This female dog cries whole day and night and just runs in search of her puppies, residents of the village told ThePrint.

The dog, they added, has been unable to eat anything in the past few days.

ThePrint’s photographer Suraj Singh Bisht visited the site, where this scene was unfolding, with the dog running helter-skelter in the hope of seeing her puppies again.

The Bhutia dog near Raini village has been unable to leave this spot even six days after the deluge washed away her puppies. | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht/ThePrint

Residents of Raini village told ThePrint that she has been pacing up and down the river banks in her desperate search. | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht/ThePrint

The dog at the disaster site where the Border Roads Organisation is busy building a bridge that would allow access to the villages that had been cut off in the deluge. | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht/ThePrint

Even as night falls, she doesn’t leave the spot where her puppies went missing. | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht/ThePrint

The dog desperately roams around the disaster site. | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht/ThePrint