I am a HUGE huge animal lover. My home is not my home unless I have fur babies in it. My animals keep me sane, keep me calm, keep my heart full of love and my life full of laughter – yes I laugh at them, a lot. It doesn’t matter whether you live in a condo, landed property or a HDB – there can be a fur baby out there that brightens up your life.
This month – March 2020, the height and weight that dogs can be housed in HDB flats have been resized by the government scheme – you can now adopt a dog that is up to 55cm in height, with no weight restriction. There are so many slightly larger dogs out there that need your love and happy home life, and they can now get it. YAY FOR THE DOGGIES. Unfortunately there is still an ongoing issue with cats housed in HDBs, and I am praying this changes in the near future.
Aside from the above rule amendment, we’re all dealing with the affects of the global pandemic of the Coronavirus, which for the majority of us means we’re at home alot more than ever before. Now is the perfect time to introduce a fur baby to your home. Being at home during the first few days and weeks of the animal’s integration into your home is key, so it really couldn’t be better timed. And wouldn’t it be great for something positive to come from this negative time? Please note though, as always, pet adoption is a lifetime commitment, it’s not just for the duration where you’re stuck at home.
Alternatively, you might wish to consider doing some animal aid volunteering in your spare time, and the below list of charities and shelters need all the extra help and support they can. You’ll find many volunteering options on their websites. They also need A LOT of aid – financial donations, food donations and medical expenses paid for — basically, as much help as they can get. If we all chipped in a little, it would make a huge impact on both the animals and volunteers’ lives.
So without further ado, below are all the different animal shelters, adoption agencies and Facebook groups here in Singaporefor domesticated animals. All are brimming with beautiful fur babies that are hoping to be chosen and given their forever home.
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Cats & Dogs
Animal Lovers League
https://www.animalloversleague.com/
Animal Lovers League (ALL) is a registered charity and home to over 500 dogs and cats, and the animals under their care consist of vagrant strays, abandoned, traumatised, abused and rescued animals. ALL is strictly no-kill. ALL aims to encourage the public to adopt instead of buying animals, and endeavour to rejoin the animals at ALL with loving and committed families.
Some of the many different tasks that founders, Cathy and Mohan, as well as volunteers carry out to care for the animals include feeding them, treating sick animals, bringing them for veterinary check ups and when they are sick or injured, vaccinating them against illnesses, and neutering/sterilising them. In addition, ALL also feeds hungry strays on the streets.
ALL constantly needs the support of the public to help keep the charity running and continue caring for the animals. Some of the ways members of the public can help include, giving monetary contributions and monthly pledges, donating food for the cats and dogs and fostering the animals.
ADOPT HERE: https://www.animalloversleague.com/adopt
For dog adoptions, please WhatsApp Catheryn at 9753 3320
For cat adoptions, please WhatsApp Mohan at 9670 8052
Address: The Animal Lodge, 59 Sungei Tengah Road, Block Q #01-29 Singapore 699014
Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals (SPCA)
Receiving around 150 pets and stray animals every month – figure includes lost dogs which are all checked for microchips and advertised in the press in an effort to locate their owners, the SPCA is a long standing animal charity and rescue organisation here in Singapore. The Society provides various animal welfare services to the community including animal cruelty and welfare investigations, 24-hour emergency animal rescue, running a shelter for stray, abandoned and unwanted pets, complementary veterinary care and spay/ neuter surgeries for community animals, education talks, fostering and adoption.
If you’re ever in urgent assistance or find an animal that needs
ADOPT HERE: http://www.spca.org.sg/services.asp
Tel: 62875355
Tel 24 hour hotline: 62875355 ext 9
Address: 50 Sungei Tengah Road, S(699012)
Causes For Animals (CAS)
https://www.causesforanimals.com/
Causes for Animals (Singapore) Limited is an animal welfare charity set up to support the needs of local animal welfare in Singapore. They employ programs and policies to promote best practice, ethical, sustainable and compassionate treatment of these animals. CAS believes that working hand in hand with other organisations is vital and most importantly the best means to benefit local street dogs and cats. Companion Animals are part of every community in Singapore and their programs are developed to recognise and provide aid for as many pet lovers. CAS aim for a stray-free Singapore, which includes rescue and adoption, education and a stray management programme and providing medical care to all who are in need.
ADOPT HERE: https://www.causesforanimals.com/cas-adoption-centre.html
Tel: 9793 7162 / 9697 3491
Mutts & Mittens
Alongside dog and cat boarding, Mutts & Mittens use the financial proceeds to go towards their passion – animal welfare work, and leaving no dog or cat unhomed. Their rescued dogs and cats await patiently for the new homes – many are old, require medical care, but still have so much love to share.
ADOPT HERE: http://www.muttsnmittens.com/rehoming/
Address: 59 Sungei Tengah Road Blk B, #01-03/04 The Animal Lodge Singapore 699014
Tel: (+65) 6583 7371/72
Voice For Animals (VFA)
https://www.facebook.com/VFASIN/
Voices For Animals rescues, rehabilitates and rehomes retired breeding dogs. VFA are a registered society, actively involved in animal rescue (dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters and other domesticated pets), stray feeding and re-homing of the animals. The group’s mission is to help animals in need, be it feeding the strays or bringing them for sterilisation to recuperating rescued animals and finding suitable adopters for them.
ADOPT HERE: https://www.facebook.com/VFASIN/
Contact: vfasin@gmail.com
Purely Adoptions
Purely Adoptions wish to reduce to number of stray and abandoned pets in Singapore by rehoming, fostering, adopting and whole process of integration of these animals. They also wish to raise awareness of the abandoned pets in Singapore, by providing a channel where family who wants to give up their pets, which becomes the same channel is also an avenue for family who wants to adopt one. They encourage adoptions of pets rather than buy one from the pet shops and work closely with various animal welfare groups and individual rescuers to rehome and integrate the abandoned animals.
ADOPT HERE: https://purelyadoptions.com/adoption/
Tel: 90018848
Contact: adoptme@purelyadoptions.com
Mdm Wong’s Shelter and Friends
https://www.facebook.com/Mdmwongsshelterandfriends/
Their mission? Providing care, compassion and hope and giving all animals a chance for leading loved lives. As with most of the charities here, they rely on donations and food donations to help them keep as many animals as they can at the shelter, with the aim of the game being rehoming their animals permanently. Currently at max capacity, they’re in desperate need of help – financial donations, volunteers and of course, people to adopt their fur babies.
ADOPT HERE: https://www.facebook.com/Mdmwongsshelterandfriends/
Address: 59 Sungei Tengah Road Blk U, #01-48 Singapore 699014
Contact: mdmwongshelterandfriends@hotmail.com
Mercy Light
https://mercylight.wixsite.com/mercylight
Mercy Light started in 2009 as a handful of volunteers who fed stray dogs every evening in the eastern side of Singapore. Mercylight Limited was incorporated in January 2015 as a non-profit organization with the aim to promote compassion for animals through the provision of animal welfare services and prevention of cruelty to animals. To date they have over 100 committed people volunteering as kennel volunteers, stray feeders, packers, fosterers and sponsors.
ADOPT HERE: https://mercylight.wixsite.com/mercylight/adopt-a-dog
Contact: blessings77777@gmail.com
Paws N Help Outreach
https://www.facebook.com/PawsNHelp/
Address: 59, Sungei Tengah Road – Strictly By Appointment Only (17.22 km) 699014 Singapore
Tel: 9743 1400
Cats Only
Cat Welfare Society (CWS)
The CWS is a non-profit organisation that aims to promote a humane, responsible and informed society of Singapore where cats are cared for as pets and community cats too. The charity aims to save lives everyday through understanding by promoting tolerance, kindness and respect towards all cats and other living creatures. CWS believes in saving lives and this means campaigning against the inhumane culling of cats. They believe in population control through education and ultimately sterilisation – not destruction.
ADOPT HERE: https://www.catwelfare.org/adoptions/
PSST!!! Cat Welfare Society is where I adopted my Gizmo from….
Project LUNI
Project LUNI is a non-profit organisation which focuses on rehoming and caring of street cats in Singapore since 2016. They focus on 4 key areas: rehoming and fostering kittens, daily feeding of stray cats, medical care for street cats and TNR – trap, neuter and return of cats. If there are kittens found, Project LUNI bring them home to foster, socialize and rehome them. They have the fur babies checked and vaccinated at the vet, dewormed and give them all the treatments and the love needed to grow into healthy happy little kitties before finding the perfect families for them. If there are cats found suffering from severe injuries or illness, Project LUNI bring them to the vet for treatment. Afterwards, they decide if it is possible to release the cats back to the streets or if it is possible to foster and rehome them.
The project believes in Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) which stops the breeding cycle of cats and therefore improves their lives. It is a fact that the removal and killing of outdoor cats – which animal control has been pursuing for decades – is never ending and futile while TNR achieves better results and it is much less cruel. After their sterilisation and recovery, cats are returned to the location where they were trapped, usually to the person who found them or their regular feeder.
ADOPT HERE: https://www.project-luni.com/adoption/
Contact: info@project-luni.com
Disadvantaged Cats/Kittens Singapore
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1083697028439147/
This is a Facebook group, not a registered charity or shelter, dedicated to the strays and in-need cats and kittens of Singapore. You’ll find a lot of information of local feeders and stray cat issues, alongside many adoption posts of cats in desperate need of homes, well as lost cat postings for those pets who have managed to escape and are in need of finding their owners.
ADOPT HERE: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1083697028439147/
Love Kuching Project
https://www.lovekuchingproject.org/
A community of cat lovers, Love Kuching Project focuses on: rehabilitating cats at risk, such as injured or critically ill strays, provide adoption opportunities to the cats they rescue and rehabilitate as well as educating the public on having cats as companions.
ADOPT HERE: https://www.lovekuchingproject.org/adopt/
Contact: assist@lovekuchingproject.org
Dogs Only
Save Our Street Dogs (SoSD)
SOSD is a volunteer-run organisation dedicated to the welfare of Singapore’s many street dogs. They vehemently oppose the culling of stray animals and believe that there is a more humane way to manage this problem. The SoSD dog shelter exists to rescue, rehabilitate and rehome strays to give them a second chance at life. If you’re an animal lover with a great passion for our canine friends, there are plenty of ways you can participate and help give these beautiful creatures a chance to find their forever home.
SOSD is unified by the common passion and conviction to be the voice of Singapore’s homeless strays, to champion their cause and to bring about a positive change in their lives. The animal charity focuses on advocating for the strays, and assisting in managing the integration and acceptance of mongrels in society. Their mission? Save every street dog, until each dog has a refuge; a home to call its own and in which it is dearly loved.
ADOPT HERE: https://sosd.org.sg/adopt-a-dog/
Address: 59 Sungei Tengah Road, Block T, Unit 01-42 Singapore 699014
Exclusively Mongrels Limited
https://www.exclusivelymongrels.org/
A mongrel, a mutt or a crossbreed is simply a dog that doesn’t fit in any breed – the bulk of stray dog population in Singapore are largely made up of mongrels. These free-roaming dogs have been under a program of planned destruction of otherwise healthy animals; it is becoming increasingly unacceptable to a community of mongrel dog advocates. Exclusively Mongrels Limited is a Non-Profit Organization who knows that ‘class’ has nothing to do with breed, it is set up by non-pedigree dog owners who appreciate the uniqueness of their own types of dogs and recognized they are something to be proud of and neither inferior nor superior to pedigrees but equally loving, fun to own and useful in their own right.
Exclusively Mongrels has teamed with respected veterinarians to provide subsidized medical provisions, individual animal activists who share the same core mission to reduce stray mongrel population through sterilization, lessen public complaints and educate the masses.
ADOPT HERE: https://www.exclusivelymongrels.org/adopt
Oasis Second Chance Animal Shelter (OSCAS)
Oasis Second Chance Animal Shelter (OSCAS) is a charity and non-profit dog shelter that has been in existence since 2006. All the dogs in the shelter are mongrels rescued from the streets or from being culled. A total of more than 110 mongrels currently call this shelter home and needless to say, it can only be sustained with help from trusty volunteers and kind donations or sponsorships.
ADOPT HERE: https://www.oscas.sg/ourdogs
Address: The Animal Lodge, 59 Sungei Tengah Rd, Block R.
Joyous bArk
https://www.facebook.com/joyousbark/
Joyous bArk aim to rescue, rehab and rehome Singapore Specials. Stray feeding, trap neuter and release as well as outreach to help people understand them better. They have many dogs and puppies under the care of their dedicated fosterers. These lovely furkids are looking for a permanent home.
ADOPT HERE: https://www.facebook.com/joyousbark/
Action for Singapore Dogs
Action for Singapore Dogs (ASD) is a non-profit organization with the mission to improve the welfare of stray and abandoned dogs in Singapore – with a strict no-kill policy. They aim to fulfill their mission through various activities and programs including rescuing, fostering and re-homing of stray and abandoned dogs, advocating sterilization to control the stray population, responsible pet ownership and highlighting the virtues of local dogs, the Singapore Specials. To date, they have rehomed over 3000 dogs and have about 150 dogs under their care, waiting for their forever homes. These dogs are housed at their Adoption & Rescue Centre and in foster homes.
ADOPT HERE: http://www.asdsingapore.com/dogs-for-adoption
Contact: info@asdsingapore.com
HOPE Dog Rescue
https://hopedogrescue.blogspot.com/
Hope Dog rescue is a collective of people from all walks of life gathered together and dedicated to a singular purpose of delivering hope and love to the ones that need it most – Singapore’s street dogs. Run entirely on the kindness and goodwill of volunteers and contributors, the project endeavours to do its best to help animals who are abused, neglected and abandoned. They believe that a glimmer of hope can make a tremendous difference. HOPE does not manage a physical shelter or an office so do not work out from a specific location. Instead their rescue work takes us to all parts of Singapore and can happen at any hour of the day.
ADOPT HERE: https://hopedogrescue.blogspot.com/p/adoption.html
Contact: hopedogrescue@singnet.com.sg | michel@hopedogrescue.org
Adopt A Dog – Singapore
https://www.facebook.com/givadogahome/
A Facebook page group set up purely with the aim to help dogs find a new loving home, Adopt a Dog Singapore is a page is dedicated to those looking to adopt a dog or would like to find a home for an abandoned dog they are fostering. Greater success is achieved the more word spreads. They are not a shelter, merely a forum and a voice for those who need new homes – you can find lots of useful articles and features posted, adorable videos or memes and of course, dog posts for adoption.
ADOPT HERE: https://www.facebook.com/givadogahome/
Rabbits Only
House Rabbit Society Singapore (HRSS)
https://houserabbitsocietysingapore.wordpress.com/
House Rabbit Society Singapore (HRSS) is an all-volunteer, non-profit organisation dedicated to rabbit welfare and awareness. They run a fostering programme to rescue and re-home abandoned rabbits. Every rescued rabbit is spayed or neutered, receives individual care including toys, medical care, healthy food and treats, and lots of love. HRSS also participates in numerous public events and maintains their website to educate the general public about rabbit care and behaviour. HRSS works closely with other animal welfare groups in Singapore such as the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), Cat Welfare Society and Action for Singapore Dogs to spread responsible pet ownership.
ADOPT HERE: https://www.facebook.com/pg/FHRSS/photos/?tab=albums
Contact: betty@hrss.net
Bunny Wonderland
https://bunnywonderlandsg.com/
Bunny Wonderland take pride in keeping an eye on any unwanted rabbit pets or stray rabbits, offering medical care where needed and looking after homeless bunnies until someone comes forward wishing to give them their forever home. With a motto that no bunny gets left behind, Bunny Wonderland Singapore is a sanctuary home for rabbits from abusive families, dangerous situations, as well as from the brink of death. Alongside rehoming their bunnies, they also aim to educate bunny owners, future bunny owners and the general public on how to look after both a pet and stray rabbit.
ADOPT HERE: https://bunnywonderlandsg.com/adoption-info/
*If I have missed out any, do leave a comment and let me know below, with the charity name and/or website!
