Adopt a Dog or Cat in Ahmedabad

Where to adopt in Ahmedabad

• Jivdaya Charitable TrustshelterAdoptionRescueSterilisation

  The trust runs a hospital and rehabilitation centre on its Ambawadi campus, according to its own site, treating stray and unowned animals and keeping a dedicated adoption centre.

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• Asha and Pets FoundationrescueAdoptionRescueSterilisation

  Their site describes emergency rescue response, foster care and free adoption placements, plus a sterilisation and vaccination programme and daily feeding for street animals.

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• SPCA AhmedabadshelterAdoptionRescue

  Their site describes work against animal cruelty across Ahmedabad district, offering shelter, veterinary appointment support and an adoption listing on its own pages.

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• Maa Animal FoundationrescueAdoptionRescueSterilisation

  Their site says the foundation has worked across Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar since 2016 and has rescued and treated over 24,000 animals, running a 24 hour rescue helpline, in house veterinary care, sterilisation and anti rabies drives, weekly feeding and an adoption programme. The organisation states that many chronically ill and paralysed dogs stay on as long term residents. Part of the page template still carries unedited placeholder contact details, so use the Indian phone number and email printed alongside them.

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• Animal Care Charitable TrustrescueRescue

  The trust states it is a non profit that helps stray animals and birds during injury and sickness, and that it gives free treatment. Their site says the trust has worked with animals and birds for over 10 years, and lists an address at Paldi in Ahmedabad along with a helpline number. Adoption is not described, so ask.

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• Bezuban Charitable TrustrescueRescue

  Their site says the trust provides completely free rescue, treatment and hospital care for sick and injured animals and birds across Ahmedabad, and that it runs a fully equipped veterinary hospital at Valad along with three ambulances that travel to the animal. The organisation states it has carried out over 16,000 on site treatments and over 13,000 hospital treatments. It also runs emergency camps for birds cut by manja during Makar Sankranti.

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• The Abhaydaan Charitable TrustsanctuaryRescue

  Their site says Abhaydaan was established in 2020 as a registered charitable trust providing a permanent home for old, disabled and abandoned animals, and that it currently houses cows, dogs, cats, fish, tortoises and guinea pigs. The office is at Bodakdev in Ahmedabad and the shelter is at Leo Farm, Pipan, on the Sanand Bawla highway. This is a lifetime care sanctuary, so ask before assuming animals are rehomed.

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What the list shows for Ahmedabad

4 of 7 state that they rehome animals. 7 also do rescue work, which means they are the number to ring about an animal on the street rather than only about adopting one. 3 run sterilisation alongside it. They are a mix of shelter, rescue, sanctuary, and those are genuinely different operations rather than different words for the same thing.

Your first fortnight in Ahmedabad

Three things are worth booking in the first fortnight, and none of them is the one people usually rush to buy. Ahmedabad makes all three straightforward.

• •A vet in the first week, before anything is wrong. We list 7 after hours options in Ahmedabad, of which 1 state round the clock cover. The point of going early is that you meet the staff and they meet the animal, which is what you want established before a bad night.
• •Sterilisation, if it has not already been done. We list 3 low cost or subsidised providers in Ahmedabad, and several run free programmes for street animals that will also take an owned pet.
• •An enzymatic cleaner rather than phenyl. Phenyl smells clean to you and smells like a marked spot to the dog, which is why the same corner keeps happening. It matters more with a rescue than with a puppy, because a dog that has lived outdoors has no reason to think your floor is different from any other ground.

People expect a rescue to be untrained and usually find the opposite. What a street dog lacks is not the instinct but a surface indoors that resembles anything they have used before.

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