Adopt a Dog or Cat in Coimbatore

Where to adopt in Coimbatore

• Humane Animal SocietyshelterAdoptionRescueSterilisation

  Set up in April 2006 as a trust for Coimbatore's street animals, with a registered office at Uppilipalayam. Their site describes an ABC and Rescue Centre at Seeranaickenpalayam and a separate 1.5 acre sanctuary at Vazhukkupparai for permanent residents, reports over 3,000 adoptions since 2006, and says it finds homes for more than 300 pets a year.

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• The Pawsome People ProjectrescueRescue

  Their site describes a registered charitable trust in Coimbatore that rescues injured street dogs, rehabilitates them and releases them back into their own communities, and says it also trains street dogs as service animals for differently abled people. Adoption and sterilisation are not described on the site, so ask.

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What the list shows for Coimbatore

1 of 2 state that they rehome animals. 2 also do rescue work, which means they are the number to ring about an animal on the street rather than only about adopting one. 1 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 Coimbatore

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

• •A vet in the first week, before anything is wrong. We list 5 after hours options in Coimbatore, none of which claims overnight cover, which is worth knowing now rather than at two in the morning. 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 1 low cost or subsidised provider in Coimbatore, 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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