From letters to the Supreme Court to a year-round resource for animals. Read the story

Animal Writes
Contact us

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.

95 organisations

Filters

Organisations

  • People for Animals- Ludhiana

    Recognised by the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI code PJ008/1999). Source: AWBI list of recognised animal welfare organisations as on .

  • JBF (India) Trust

    Recognised by the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI code ND044/2007). Source: AWBI list of recognised animal welfare organisations as on .

  • Krishna Ashram

    Krishna Ashram provides a refuge, treatment, and care for sick, injured, and neglected stray and abandoned animals. Operating in Delhi and NCR, the shelter…

  • Dhyan Foundation

    Dhyan Foundation offers animal welfare services including rescues (with BSF), virtual adoption, and animal care in gaushalas. It also conducts food distribution, women empowerment,…

  • Help in Suffering

    Help in Suffering provides emergency treatment, surgeries, rescue, rehabilitation, sterilisation, vaccination, and long-term care for animals in Jaipur and surrounding regions.

  • Bark India Charitable

    Bark India Charitable Trust operates an animal rescue centre and veterinary hospital providing rescue, medical treatment, shelter, adoption, feeding, vaccination, and sterilisation services for…

  • Pashupati Kalyan Parishad

    Recognised by the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI code RJ130/1999). Source: AWBI list of recognised animal welfare organisations as on .

  • Blue Cross of India

    Blue Cross of India operates in Chennai, providing animal rescues, sterilisation, vaccinations, hospital treatment, shelters, and adoption and foster services for street animals, abandoned…

  • Humane Animal Society

    Humane Animal Society is a non-profit trust in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, providing animal birth control, rabies vaccination, rescue, treatment, sheltering, adoptions, and an ambulance…

  • Swami Dayananda Educational Trust

    Swami Dayananda Educational Trust operates a goshala involving cow and calf adoption and cow feeding in Manjakkudi, Tamil Nadu.

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.