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This 12-year-old Owns an Animal Hospital!!
What do you want to become when you grow up? We all have been asked this question as a child and the prominent replies were Doctor, Engineer, Architect, Pilot, etc. This boy that we’ll talk about today owns an animal hospital and doesn’t
What do you want to become when you grow up? We all have been asked this question as a child and the prominent replies were Doctor, Engineer, Architect, Pilot, etc. This boy that we’ll talk about today owns an animal hospital and doesn’t even need to become a doctor for taking care of life, he is already on his way to philanthropy, bringing wounded and stray animals home.
Callum Underdown, from Suffolk has till now taken care of more than 100 unwanted animals and spends his own pocket-money for the same.
Realizing his concern and supporting him to any extent that they can, his supportive parents have also bought him a piece of land to keep his pets. His mum, Sarah Underdown noticed number and variety of pets he owns … he has goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, geese and chickens as pets … and decided to help him all the way.
She said: “He's loved animals ever since he was little. He doesn't care about football or computer games or anything like that, he just wants to look after animals.”
“We started off with a few chickens in the garden and it just grew from there.”
“It was crazy before we got the small holding. The chickens used to get into the kitchen all the time. Every time I tried to make dinner, I'd be tripping over them!”
Estimating the money that Callum has spent on saving injured animals to be around £3,600, his mother informed that he visits his ‘zoo’ at 6am every morning without a miss.
He not only brings them home, feeds them and takes care of them but also tries his best to find them home. She said he is the reason behind the survival for many of them, and after saying so she also cited an example that several of the chickens that he brought home were missing feathers but after Callum’s efforts, the chickens were back to good health.
Mrs Underdown said, “We keep the sick animals at home while they recover – we've started calling the kitchen 'Sarah's Hospital'!”
It was the road accident that changed the young boy forever, says his mother.
While talking to the media, she informs, “We were in a collision and sadly a motorcyclist died at the scene. It was awful, and it really upset Callum. He wasn't himself for a while. A while later, he asked if he could adopt some chickens and keep them in the garden. Being outside and looking after them really cheered him up. We think this has helped him to deal with his feelings about the accident.”
He wanted to lend a helping hand to more and more animals so after adopting his first few pets, he looked for more unwanted and abandoned animals on Facebook ‘Buy, Sell, Swap’ pages.
She said, “People often sell animals cheap on Facebook, but there's no guarantee that they will go to good people. You never know who might take them, and you hear some terrible stories about animals being abused. Callum likes to buy these animals because then he knows that they're being taken care of.”
We at ScooTalks were amazed to learn about such a kid and hope to see such compassion in more kids of today.