Adoption Service
Animal welfare organisations offering adoption of dogs, cats and other animals in India, by state and district, with contact details, in our Directory.
Organisations
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People For Animals, Mumbai
Recognised by the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI code MH118/2005). Source: AWBI list of recognised animal welfare organisations as on .
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Save our Strays
Save Our Strays is a Mumbai-based animal welfare charity. Their initiatives and programs are animal birth control, vaccination and rabies eradication, animal healthcare and…
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Sharan Education And Welfare Society
Sharan Education And Welfare Society provides rescue, rehabilitation, shelter, medical treatment, spay and neuter, vaccinations, adoption, and foster care for domestic animals and wildlife…
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Animal Matter To Me
Animal Matter To Me is a Mumbai-based charity operating since 2010 that rescues, treats, sterilises, vaccinates, and rehabilitates street animals, farm animals, and wildlife,…
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Pets Force
Pets Force is a Pune-based organization dedicated to the rescue, treatment, and rehabilitation of injured street and pet dogs. They operate a no-fence sanctuary…
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The Friendicoes – SECA
Friendicoes – SECA rescues, treats, sterilises, vaccinates, and rehomes animals, runs street feeding programs, provides lifetime care sanctuaries, and operates a mobile equine clinic…
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Jeevashram Foundation
Jeevashram Foundation runs a veterinary hospital for large and small animals, animal birth control programmes, vaccination and awareness drives, a shelter, adoption, boarding and…
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Circle of Animal Lovers
Recognised by the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI code ND013/1993). Source: AWBI list of recognised animal welfare organisations as on .
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Pet Animal Welfare Society
Pet Animal Welfare Society is a non-profit registered animal welfare organisation in New Delhi, India. It conducts animal birth control, anti-rabies immunization, treatments, feeding,…
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Purple Patch Trust
The Purple Patch Trust works in Delhi NCR to protect small animals and birds through humane advocacy, awareness, rescue coordination, foster and adoption support,…
Questions about Adoption Service
Yes. The Supreme Court’s order of 22 Aug 2025 lets animal lovers apply to the municipal body to adopt street dogs. The dog is tagged and handed over, and the adopter must ensure it does not return to the streets.
You, as its owner. The ABC Rules, 2023 make owners of pet dogs responsible for their deworming, immunisation and sterilisation.
On the Directory, choose Adoption service under Service, then your state and district. The Opportunities page also lists adoption events by organisations.
Yes. Section 11 of the PCA Act, 1960 makes it cruelty to abandon any animal without reasonable cause in a way that is likely to make it suffer from starvation or thirst.