Overview

Initiates the process of rescue and recovery for injured animals and brings them to the shelter to provide them the treatment.

It has medical facilities where treatment is accessible to everyone, including complex cases like tumors and fractures. It claims to have helped 16,219 animals so far.

During the lockdown, a feeding drive was initiated to create awareness on feeding community animals and busting misconceptions of animals being carriers of Covid -19. It went to different parts of the city on different days to feed the animals.

Its shelter is home to over 50 animals at any given time. Few are for animal birth control or treatments, but many animals are permanent residents like dogs in their old age, earlier critically injured ones who are unable to fend for themselves and abandoned ones.

It has the objective of helping animals in distress, but also requires support in the form of charges to running the expenses. It charges for providing ambulance services and receipts are given for payments/donations made to the shelter.

Projects

Pet parents unable to take their pets with them while going out of the city to want to leave them in the shelter. For the convenience of these pet parents, it has started to take care of these pets for a week to a month on a chargeable basis at a small fee.

A.B.C. stands for animal birth control. It is a cost-effective, humane and scientific way to control the population of street dogs, to minimize animal suffering, to keep them healthy and reduce any health risks. It is as per the Govt. of India’s Animal Birth Control (ABC) (Dogs) Rules, 2001. Under this programme, the Government of India provides partial financial assistance for sterilization and immunization of stray dogs to the municipalities and NGOs/AWOs (Animal Welfare Organizations) for implementing the above scheme.

It offers medical facilities with the twin objectives of providing the best care for the animals within the available resources and making the treatment accessible to everyone. It includes basic treatments and complex surgeries as tumors and fractures.

It offers ambulance service which is chargeable to bring in an injured street/community animal to the shelter but the treatment at the shelter is done free of cost. As soon as the animal regains its heath it is either dropped back to its territory or put up for adoption at the shelter. Ambulance service is also available for pet animals.