Adopt a Dog or Cat in Chandigarh
6 organisations in Chandigarh, read from their own sites. Ring before you visit, because adoption hours and intake rules vary more than anything else here.
Last checked 2026-08-09
Where to adopt in Chandigarh
- MowgliAidrescueAdoptionRescue
Their site describes rescuing, rehabilitating and treating injured and sick homeless animals across the Chandigarh tricity, and lists dogs, kittens and birds looking for homes under an adopt rather than shop campaign.
their site - Whooftown FoundationrescueAdoptionRescueSterilisation
Based at Dhakoran Khurd in SAS Nagar, within the Chandigarh tricity. Their site describes street dog rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming, and mentions spaying and neutering among its programmes. It also offers paid boarding and grooming, so be clear which service you are calling about.
their site - Society for Welfare of Animals, Sector 38shelterRescue
The Chandigarh Administration's animal husbandry site describes this as a government run animal shelter and infirmary in Sector 38 with two resident vets, treating and sheltering sick and injured stray animals and lifting small animals in an emergency. Adoption is not mentioned on that page, so ring the directorate to ask.
their site - The Bhau ProjectrescueAdoptionRescueSterilisation
Their site says the project runs ambulances for emergency rescue across the Tricity, provides medical and post operative care, keeps a permanent shelter for animals that cannot return to the street, and conducts sterilisation and vaccination drives. The organisation states that over 25 animals have found homes of their own so far. An emergency number is published on every page, so call rather than visiting.
their site - Furever FriendsrescueAdoptionRescueSterilisation
The page states Furever Friends rescues street animals and abandoned pets across Chandigarh and the Tricity, covering treatment, rehabilitation, adoption and sterilisations, and that it is volunteer run with 80G tax exemption. It was posting within a day of our check. Facebook is the official presence, so message the page or ring the number listed there.
their site - RAFAT NGO FoundationrescueAdoptionRescueSterilisation
Their site says RAFAT is an 80G certified foundation running Feed the Strays, medical aid, sterilisation, vaccination, and adoption and fostering programmes, and that its work currently covers all of Zirakpur in the Chandigarh Tricity. The organisation states its contact line is open every working day from 9am to 7pm. The site is served over plain HTTP, so use the phone number or email rather than the web form.
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What the list shows for Chandigarh
5 of 6 state that they rehome animals. 6 also do rescue work, which means they are the number to ring about an animal on the street rather than only about adopting one. 4 run sterilisation alongside it. They are a mix of rescue, shelter, and those are genuinely different operations rather than different words for the same thing.
Your first fortnight in Chandigarh
A rescue arriving in a new home needs three things sorted before anything else, and all three are easier to arrange in Chandigarh than most people expect.
- A vet in the first week, before anything is wrong. We list 5 after hours options in Chandigarh, of which 2 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 5 low cost or subsidised providers in Chandigarh, 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.
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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