Zaira, The Siberian Husky Evacuated From Ukraine Heads To New Home In Foothills Of Munnar
The story of Arya, and her pet dog Zaira which had several twists and tunes in the past few days has a happy ending.
On Friday, Arya Aldrin and her 7-month-old pet dog a Siberian Husky took their flight home to Kerala from Delhi.
Arya, a native of Idukki in Kerala had made headlines after the MBBS student refused to leave Ukraine without her pet dog.
After days of running from pillar-to-post Arya, like some other Indian students who had pets in Ukraine were given an exemption to take their animal friends along to India on the evacuation flight.
But for Arya, who landed in Delhi on Wednesday night, the troubles did not even end there.
The 20-year-old who was scheduled to travel to Kerala from the national capital on Thursday got stuck there for one more day after two airliens, citing their onboard pet policy refused to fly her.
Following this, Kerala Education Minister V Sivankutty reached out to Arya, who was lodged in the Kerala House in Delhi, and assured help to bring her pet home.
Arya, a native of a sleepy village near Munnar and Zaira have been provided seats on an Air India flight on Friday.
Earlier, speaking to local media Arya said that she could not have left the war-ravaged country without her pet dog, who had been with her for over four months.
Arya, a medical student of National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsia had to walk to the Romanian border, with Zaira who is still young and is not used to walking long distances.
Arya said she had to carry Zaira on her shoulder at times as the young dog became too tired to walk.
Relaxed norms for flying pets
Earlier, taking into account the particular circumstances around the evacuation of Indian nationals from Ukraine, the government had relaxed the norms to allow people to bring their pets along.
"Considering unique and extraordinary situations on war-hit Ukraine wherein pre-expert requisite formalities for export of pets into India may not be fulfilled, the import of pet dogs and/or pet cats along with stranded Indians being rescued by the Government of India is being facilitated as a one-time relaxation measure as under," the statement by the ministry read.
According to the original advisory, anyone who wants to bring a pet from abroad has to produce proof of continuous stay of two years in that particular country, along with proof of transferring his or her residence to India, which implies an airline ticket.?
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