A second chance starts with care.
Every animal that reaches us is treated. None is ever refused.
We have never put an animal down.
Not once, in sixteen years. Animal Matter To Me runs a hospital in Malad, a cageless sanctuary in Kolad, and an ambulance that runs seven days a week.
Somebody here is waiting for you.
Dogs and cats rescued from the streets, vaccinated, sterilised, and ready for a home. We stay in touch long after they have gone.
The ambulance runs on Tuesdays too.
Rescue is not an event, it is a running cost. Guardians give monthly, so the fuel, the medicines and the meals are there on the ordinary days nobody posts about.
What We Do
Rescue
Our team answers calls seven days a week across Mumbai. When an animal is injured, trapped, poisoned or abandoned, an ambulance goes out. No animal that reaches us is ever refused.
Medical Treatment
Our hospital in Malad treats sick and injured street animals every day: surgery, intensive care, diagnostics, pathology. Treatment is subsidised, so no animal is turned away for want of money.
CNVR
Catch, Neuter, Vaccinate, Release. Our sterilisation and vaccination programme reduces the number of animals born onto the streets and keeps rabies out of the communities they live in.
Sanctuary & Rehabilitation
Our cageless sanctuary in Kolad is home to animals who recovered but could never go back: the blind, the disabled, the traumatised, the abandoned. They live out their lives outdoors, in the open.
Adoption
We find homes for dogs and cats rescued from the streets. Every adoption creates space for the next animal in need, and we stay in touch long after they have gone home.
Farm Animals
Cattle, bulls and horses found injured, abandoned or neglected are rescued and given permanent refuge at Kolad, where a dedicated farm animal space is being built.
Wildlife Rescue
Working with SARRP India and the Forest Department, we rescue and relocate snakes, birds and other wild animals found in distress across the city.
Community & Education
We feed street animals every day, teach humane education in schools, and work with housing societies and residents to make neighbourhoods safer for the animals living around them.
Support Our Mission Today
Since 2010 we have been transforming the lives of stray and abandoned animals across Mumbai and beyond.
From emergency rescue and medical treatment to large-scale sterilisation programmes and the rehabilitation of animals saved from dire situations, we won't stop until there is no more suffering of homeless animals. It is only possible thanks to the support of animal lovers like you.
Will you help vulnerable dogs and cats by joining in support of our mission?
Adoption
Adopting is one of the most effective ways to support our work. Giving a rescued animal the chance to feel safe and loved is its own reward, and every adoption creates the space we need to help the next animal off the street.
Sponsor an animal
Some of the animals at Kolad will never leave. The blind, the elderly, the ones too badly hurt to go back to the street. Sponsoring one covers their food, their medicine and their care, for as long as they live.
Every rescue, in the open
Every animal we take on is logged, tracked and published: what was wrong, what we did, and how they are now. Nothing is summarised and nothing is hidden.
Volunteer
Volunteers are part of how this place runs. There is the noise and mess of the main dog enclosures, the quiet of the senior dogs who mostly want company, and the cattery for anyone who prefers cats. Some volunteers walk dogs. Some help at the hospital. Some help with the feeding rounds, the admin, the endless laundry.
Every volunteer gets a full orientation on animal handling and safety before going anywhere near an animal. You do not need experience. You need a day and a willingness to be useful.