last weekend saw the members of compassion unlimited plus action cupa celebrate as they inaugurated the new cupa second chance adoption centre in a note to us they said the much smaller centre that we had earlier was riddled with problems like space constraints and frequent flooding during the rains after facing its own set of challenges the new centre at sarjapur spread over an acre is now up and running it has fresh air wide open spaces crisp blue skies and nearly 80 happy dogs that are waiting eagerly for their forever homesdiksha kamat one of the trustees of cupa says the land that we have is over two acres we are using around 12 acre for the kennels while the rest of the space will be reserved for animal activities we also plan on having a swimming pool here as well as other facilities which will allow the space to be utilized for pet and kids birthday parties toothe new space she adds will be used mainly for rehabilitating rescued and abandoned dogs we have our main trauma care centre and other work going on in hebbal the space in sarjapur will be used to keep rescued dogs there are many expensive breeds too so we want to ensure only those that are vaccinated and sterilized find a place in this shelter says dikshathe new shelter will keep dogs until they are eight years old and once older they will be shifted to the geriatric care unit near the international airport the new sarjapur centre hopes to encourage more people to come and adopt rescued and abandoned animals