Adopt a Dog or Cat in Pune
4 organisations in Pune, 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 Pune
- Animal Rescue TrustshelterAdoptionRescueSterilisation
Their site says ART runs a 24x7 animal centre on the Manjri to Theur road and has facilitated over 350 adoptions. It also describes Aashiyana, a retirement home for special needs dogs who may never be adopted.
their site - Mission Possible Foundation PuneshelterAdoptionRescue
Their site describes two shelters, one on Shankar Shet Road and one in Jadhavwadi, Saswad, and reports rehoming more than 6,000 pets since the trust started in 2006.
their site - Blue Cross Society of PuneshelterAdoptionRescueSterilisation
The society's site describes a free OPD hospital for strays and Indie pet dogs and cats, with limited kennel space for in patient cases and periodic adoption opportunities.
their site - Sinhgad Animal Welfare Charitable TrustrescueAdoptionRescueSterilisation
The trust describes itself as a volunteer led group of more than 125 members across Pune and PCMC, rescuing injured strays and running rehoming and lost and found efforts since 2015.
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What the list shows for Pune
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. 3 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 Pune
Three things are worth booking in the first fortnight, and none of them is the one people usually rush to buy. Pune makes all three straightforward.
- A vet in the first week, before anything is wrong. We list 5 after hours options in Pune, of which 5 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 Pune, 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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