15/03/2025
In Call of the Wild, Jack London explores how instincts buried deep within a creature’s bloodline can resurface when survival demands it. Buck, a domesticated dog, is forced into the wild, where he awakens to an ancestral memory—a call from his wolf ancestors, passed down through generations.
In Pakistan, street dogs experience the opposite. Generations of suffering, abuse, and terror have altered their very nature. Fear isn’t something they learn—it’s something they are born with.
For decades, street dogs have been beaten, poisoned, shot, burned, and chased away. Their mothers have spent their lives running, hiding, trembling at every footstep, every raised hand, every stone thrown their way. Now, their puppies—newborn, barely able to see or walk—already flinch at the sight of a human. They are born afraid.
This is inherited trauma—passed down through bloodlines. A puppy who has never been struck will still cower because fear is woven into their existence. It is survival.
💔 I see this firsthand in the puppies I raise. Even those born in safety, away from the cruelty of the streets, carry this ingrained fear. I have to work, day after day, to earn their trust—to show them that not all humans are threats.
This is the damage we, as a society, have done.
In a nation that claims to value mercy and compassion, what does it say about us that our treatment of these animals has rewritten their very nature? That the first thing they feel when they see a human is not trust, not curiosity—but terror?
If Buck in Call of the Wild could hear the voices of his ancestors calling him to strength and freedom, then what do our street dogs hear?
Only the echoes of suffering.
It’s time we change that. Rewrite their story—not with fear, but with kindness. No being should be born into a world where their first instinct is to run for their life.
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