despite the vets and the doctors repeated assurances that pet dogs and cats cannot carry and spread corona kolkatans have been abandoning their pets like anything for last few weeks the animal rights organisations told us that on an average they are receiving at least three calls from pet parents willing to give up their pets priya kothari a salt lake based dog rescuer said that the number of cases has gone up rapidly people are leaving their pets to some deserted area in the fear which has no basis she added canine behaviorist shirin merchant was recently in aapnu amdavad to conduct a training event for pet parents in the city the event included various kinds of training ranging from teaching dogs to follow a simple no command to teaching pet parents how to understand their pets body language many pet parents from the city attended the event the interactive session included shirin illustrating simple commands with the audiences pet which were then replicated by the pet parents