Adopt a Dog or Cat in Navi Mumbai

Where to adopt in Navi Mumbai

• In Defense of Animals India, Navi MumbaishelterAdoptionRescueSterilisation

  Their Navi Mumbai page describes two centres, one at Turbhe run under contract with NMMC since 2006 with room for around 150 dogs, and one at Panvel supported by CIDCO housing roughly 110 to 120. The adoption page lists vaccinated and dewormed dogs and cats from these centres.

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• Jeevrakshak Social FoundationrescueAdoptionRescue

  Based in Kharghar. Their site describes round the clock emergency rescue, a recovery shelter with medical support, and a screened adoption process for rescued animals.

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• Hands That Heal Animal Care FoundationsanctuaryAdoptionRescue

  Their site says the foundation was founded in 2016 by Anamika Chowdhury and runs a shelter on the outskirts of Panvel near the Karnala Bird Sanctuary, where she now cares for more than 800 animals. The organisation states that it rescues animals from difficult situations, provides medical care and rehabilitation, and looks for carefully screened, well matched homes. Sterilisation is not described on the site, so ask.

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What the list shows for Navi Mumbai

3 of 3 state that they rehome animals. 3 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, sanctuary, and those are genuinely different operations rather than different words for the same thing.

Your first fortnight in Navi Mumbai

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

• •A vet in the first week, before anything is wrong. We list 5 after hours options in Navi Mumbai, none of which claims overnight cover, which is worth knowing now rather than at two in the morning. Go once while the dog is calm, so the clinic becomes a known place rather than somewhere they first see in a crisis.
• •Sterilisation, if it has not already been done. We list 1 low cost or subsidised provider in Navi Mumbai, 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.

An Indie who has come off the street is usually already toilet trained, to dust and mud rather than to tile. The first fortnight is about showing them where that surface now lives indoors, not about training a dog from nothing.

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