Vishnu

Vishnu was stolen from the forests, when he was hardly a few months old. Separated from his mother, he was put inside dark dingy boxes, sold to a trader who made him dance on hot coals and kept him hungry to teach him the tricks of the trade. This was his life of the past 8 years, walking the highways during the heat of summer; his muzzle always raw and diseased from his dirty rope. When WILDLIFE SOS offered alternative employment to the Qalandars, Vishnu was one the bears peacefully surrendered by his owner and sent  to the ABRF by the Uttar Pradesh Forest Department. Here, for the first time in his life, he tasted freedom and got a new lease of life, what with trees to climb, ponds to swim and a jungle to explore....