Adopt a Dog or Cat in Bangalore

Where to adopt in Bangalore

• Compassion Unlimited Plus ActionshelterAdoptionRescueSterilisation

  CUPA's site describes over three decades of rescue and relief for sick, injured and abused animals in Bengaluru, run across separate units including a Trauma and Rescue Centre, a Second Chance Adoption Centre and a geriatric centre for more than 60 blind and handicapped senior dogs who live there permanently. The adoption centre page reports 4,861 adoptions and asks you to email a day before you visit.

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• Karuna Animal Welfare Association of KarnatakashelterAdoptionRescueSterilisation

  Their site says the association began in 1888 as the Bangalore Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, was registered as a charitable society in 1916, and took its present name in 2001. It lists an animal shelter, ambulatory services and a pet adoption page, and states that street dogs and cats brought to the shelter are neutered. The office is on Kasturba Road, opposite the Queens statue.

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• Charlie's Animal Rescue CentrerescueAdoptionRescue

  CARE's site says it has been rescuing, healing and rehoming street animals since 2013, from a site at Kogilu Village near Mitteganahalli Cross in Bangalore North. It lists veterinary care, rescue, treatment and rehabilitation, adoptions and release, and a rabies helpline. Visiting hours given on the site are 11am to 4pm.

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• Sarvoham Animal FoundationshelterAdoptionRescue

  Based in JP Nagar 8th Phase. Their site says Sarvoham has worked since 2017 to rescue, treat, rehabilitate and rehome dogs from Bengaluru's streets, reports helping more than 3,500 animals, and describes feeding over 200 shelter animals on site. It carries an adopt a pet section. Sterilisation is not described on the site, so ask.

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What the list shows for Bangalore

4 of 4 state that they rehome animals. 4 also do rescue work, which means they are the number to ring about an animal on the street rather than only about adopting one. 2 run sterilisation alongside it. They are a mix of shelter, rescue, and those are genuinely different operations rather than different words for the same thing.

Your first fortnight in Bangalore

A rescue arriving in a new home needs three things sorted before anything else, and all three are easier to arrange in Bangalore than most people expect.

• •A vet in the first week, before anything is wrong. We list 9 after hours options in Bangalore, of which 6 state round the clock cover. Book it before anything is wrong. A first visit that is not an emergency is worth more than any amount of reading.
• •Sterilisation, if it has not already been done. We list 5 low cost or subsidised providers in Bangalore, and several run free programmes for street animals that will also take an owned pet.
• •An enzymatic cleaner rather than phenyl. Ordinary Indian floor cleaners leave the ammonia note a dog reads as an invitation to use the same spot again. 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.

A street dog arrives with habits rather than without them. They already know not to go where they sleep, and the job is translating that into a flat rather than starting from zero.

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