After a lifetime of being enslaved, beaten with bull hooks, chained and begging for 27 different owners, Raju cried when he was freed by Wildlife SOS 2 years ago on July 4, 2014.
i was so impassioned by Raju's story that I visited him on Novemer 7th, 2014. His right hind knee is permanently deformed as can be seen in these photos which I took when I visited him in Mathura, India. Raju spends time in a large tub of water daily to relieve his pain from weight bearing.
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After a lifetime of being enslaved, beaten with bull hooks, chained and begging for 27 different owners, Raju cried when he was freed by Wildlife SOS 2 years ago on July 4, 2014.