there are pet lovers everywhere around us but in the past few years rescue and adoption of native pets from the streets and animal shelters has seen a rise as people have grown to understand how important it is to give these animals a loving family and a home raveena tandon who is an environmental activist and a fervent supporter of animal rights has led this trend by rescuing many animals and providing them shelter either at her home or her farmhouse on pet day today the actress shares with us her personal stories of rescuing animals and how shes been an ardent animal lover since childhoodmy rescued cat puma is now four years oldrecalling the time when she brought home a little kitten for the first time the actress says i remember i was just three or four years old and had rescued a kitten and brought her homeraveena says now after 3040 years i rescued a kitten four years ago who was crossing the road and was almost going to die under the wheels of a vehicle i brought her home and named her puma she is now fouryearsoldeveryone looks after pedigree pets but it is important to give a home to indiesraveena with chotu a visually impaired pet who passed away in march 2021the actress who was recently awarded the padma shri stresses on the need to adopt pets over shopping or going to a breeder for one currently she has adopted and rescued four dogs and three cats out of these rescued pets a dog named cuddle and a cat named puma live with the actress in her home in mumbai along with her other pets while the rest live on her farm she also has three mini pomeranians and a husky earlier the actress had another pet chotu a visually impaired rescued indie dog who passed away in march 2021 looking after the welfare of animals and having pets are two different things it is important to understand that adopting an indie is far more important than specialty breeds multiplying and all of us buying them everyone looks after pedigree pets but it is important to give a home to these indies who need protection and shelter at my farm one of the rescued dogs lilie is a tripod she has three legs and it is lovely playing with her she sayswe adopted 15 pups while shooting in himachal pradeshraveena looks out for abandoned pets everywhere whether it is the bylanes of mumbai or faraway shooting locations she picked up a pup from a drain in himachal pradesh while shooting for the web series aranyak she shares we adopted 15 pups when we were shooting in kullu manali and dalhousie and a few were adopted by my colleagues from the team being passionate about animal welfare is one thing but you need to be compassionate to rescue animals and give them a loving homesterilising of animals on the street is the need of the