Andhra doctor wants his pet Jaguar and Panther rescued from ukraine
News Desk : dhakamirror.com
An Indian-born physician who spent months hiding out in his war-torn Ukrainian home’s basement with his two favorite big cats claims he is now separated from them.
Now, He has approached the Indian government – in an unusual plea – to help rescue his pet jaguar and panther he left behind when he was forced out of the war zone.
After the war began earlier this year, Gidikumar Patil, who is single, had pledged he would not leave his home without his pets.
Gidikumar Patil, a 42-year-old doctor who became a Ukrainian citizen in 2016, had to leave his pets in search of a living in neighbouring Poland after the hospital he was working with was bombed in the Russia-Ukraine war.
Gidikumar Patil was forced to leave them behind with a local farmer when he left Luhansk in eastern Ukraine after holding out there for a few months.
Patil, a Ukrainian citizen since 2016, bought the animals from a zoo of Ukraine capital Kyiv.
When Patil ran out of money, he crossed over to Poland to earn a living so he could keep feeding his cats.
Reports said Patil is now living in a hostel in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, with other Ukrainian refugees.
He says the internet in Svavtove stopped working two weeks ago, and he is checking on his cats daily by calling up a local farmer who is taking care of them.
‘The caretaker tells me me the animals were missing me. The ‘lepjag’ didn’t eat properly for nearly a week. The black panther was in confusion. I want to save the animals and take them out, but I really don’t know how,’ the BBC quoted Mr Patil as saying on the phone from Warsaw.
