pune activists have accused the pune municipal corporation pmc of distressing animal lovers trying to manage stray dogs in the city punebased padmini stump and cancer specialist ravindra kasbekar who rescue and foster animals at mission possible alleged that personnel from the civic bodys building permission and health departments raided the formers bungalow on shankar sheth road on wednesday they claimed that the authorities had meant to take away the rescued dogs undergoing treatment there stump and kasbekar have been taking care of and treating hundreds of injured and tortured street dogs in pune at their mission possible shelter in saswad but as theres not much space there i have around 50 injured dogs at my bungalow on wednesday the civic officials came with an entire demolition squad to bring down the steel sheds used to house the injured animals she saidboth stump and kasbekar said neighbours in the area had been lodging complaints with the pmc to get the dogs removed if the pmc had a solution say a shelter to take care of sick and injured animals all this could have been avoided in fact we are helping the pmc because nearly 400 dogs are off the streets now as we home feed medicate and vaccinate those we also sterilising the and ensure their adoption stump said kasbekar said we have sought time from the civic authorities and they have agreed to it they can also see we are doing whatever possible for these street animalsajit naiknavare an building permission department official said we had received complaints from stumps neighbours the health department as well as the building permission department personnel had visited the animal lovers bungalow to remove the illegal sheds used to house the sick animals we have given them six months time to remove thosethe pmc has been discussing a proposal on the stray dog shelter in pune at its general body meetings since 2008 the proposed shelter still remains on paper