SANCTUARY
WHY SANCTUARY?
When animals cannot survive on the streets or find adoptive homes, we’ve got a place for them. Learn more about our sanctuaries and how you can help.
Indian Animal Sanctuary:
WHAT WE DO, AND WHY WE’RE NEEDED
In India’s unforgiving environment for stray animals, dogs and cats often end up permanently disabled due to car accidents, abuse, or untreated infections. When we’re alerted to a stray animal’s plight, one of our Animal Rescue Teams springs into action, locating and transporting the animal to our location for veterinary care. Once a determination is made that an animal will not survive continued life on the streets and is an unlikely candidate for adoption, our animal sanctuary network finds a place for it to live out its life with love and care.
UNIQUE ANIMALS, UNIQUE CHALLENGES
Animals given sanctuary requires highly specific care and space:
- Infections can require a long time to treat and heal, including specific diets.
- Unique structural features, such as smooth floors for the comfort of paralyzed animals, may be required.
- Larger sanctuary animals such as livestock require a large amount of space.
In addition to these unique challenges, each sanctuary animal reduces a shelter’s capacity both for fellow sanctuary animals and the stray community at large. Expanding our sanctuary network allows us to provide better housing and care for all our animals.
SHELTER EXPANSION 2022
The shelter expansion project for 2022 is great news. It includes 100 animal beds, a clinic, recovery rooms, sterilizations, disease isolation areas, a sanctuary, puppy area, breed dog area, cat rescue, 6 staff living quarters, and more.
By 2027 we plan to acquire a land of our own that can house 500 animals. Expand the sterilizations, wide range of animal rescue, education and cruelty counselling.
SANCTUARY LIFE
We are strictly a no-kill organization. SAFI’s shelter uses the RRNR approach – Rescue, Rehabilitate, Neuter, and Release. The ones who do not fit in the cycle remain in the sanctuary for life. Our paralyzed, disabled live in a separate section with an indoor room, patio, outdoor covered area, and more room beyond. Paralyzed make a lot of mess all day. The entire area needs to clean almost 6 times a day. Your donation will help with dog food, vet care, flea tick medication, staff salaries, utilities and more.
OUR RESCUE MODEL
Future additions to Sanctuary
Our state of art Sanctuary is took its shape after two years of hard work raising funds and awesome people supported and still do.
Its our goal to add wheelchairs for all paralyzed dogs in the sanctuary. At a time, we have around 20-30 paralyzed. We have challenges to achieve. We must raise the one-time and monthly funds to make wheelchairs possible.
1. Quality wheelchairs in India are expensive. Around $600 per wheelchair. We tried $90 wheelchairs available in India. But they are not ergonomic. Dogs rejected.
2. We do not have monthly funds to hire a dedicated person to put wheelchairs on and off. Paralyzed dogs cannot lift their butt while peeing and pooping. They make themselves and the room very messy. We hired one dedicated person clean the area 6 times a day, feed, give baths and clean bowls. He is busy all day. Cannot put time on wheelchairs.
3. We need to hire a qualified veterinary technician to put on the wheelchairs daily. Paralyzed dogs have vertebra fractures, dislocated vertebras, OR are in pain. Lifting them to put on wheel chair sometimes will do more damage than help. We need to hire someone who can understand their condition and know which dog to put a wheelchair on or not.
If you would like to donate to the wheel project, please contact us at info@strayanimalfoundationindia.org
