Sponsor an Animal

When a permanent disability or very old age or chronic illness means an animal cannot fend for herself on the street,  Animal Aid says “Welcome Home.”

Animal Aid has the capacity to give hundreds of “Weathered Wonders” a gentle retirement–if we have your help.

Find and sponsor your special someone today.

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Your sponsorship provides:

• Nutritional diet
• Daily grooming and exercise
• Regular medical check-ups and medical care if necessary
• Shelter from sun and rain as needed
• Safe fields to run and roll and play

What do you get from your Sponsored Animal?

• We’ll email you three special photos of your sponsored animal
• You get “virtual snuggles”
• “proxy snuggles” by volunteers and staff on site.

Species	Sponsorship for 6 months	Sponsorship for 1 year
1 donkey	$ 420	$ 840
1 dog	$ 200	$ 400
1 cow	$ 500	$ 1000
1 pig	$ 250	$ 500

When you sponsor an animal we ask you to send an email to info@animalaidunlimited.com to inform us of who or what species of animal you want to sponsor and any details you would like us to know about your choice.

If your sponsored animal passes away we will inform you and ask you to select another animal for whom we should transfer the remaining sponsorship funds.

These animals need you right now.

Bebe is blind and beautiful. Extremely shy, Bebe will only let you touch him if other dogs are nearby (and he adores other dogs). He was brought to us with a leg wound and for a few days we did not realize he was blind. He absolutely hated being in a kennel or on a chain and is closer to being a feral dog than most we have. When his wound was healed and we shifted him to the donkey paddock, we weren’t sure at first whether he would like it. We couldn’t believe the adoration that was showered on him by the other dogs and vice-versa. Bebe is an indirect flirt, who loves to position himself near to you and pretend he doesn’t know you’re there. But just wait, because wherever you go in the donkey paddock (which is where Bebe lives) you’ll find a very charming shadow.

Cookie was rescued years ago, when she was just a puppy, because she had been hit by a car and had a broken jaw.  She made a fabulous recovery. But when it came time to release her we realized that the emergency caller who had reported her injury did not live at the place she had been rescued, but had merely seen her lying beside a busy road and had been kind enough to call. The only home she knew was Animal Aid, and at just 4 months old, with no one to watch out for her, we decided she needed to grow old with us. Which she has. She sits at the entrance of the hospital and greets guests (she might rather call them intruders at first, until she gets to know them) and plays with her best-friend Taas. Though Cookie is losing some of her teeth, she is young at heart, and the shelter would not be the same without her.

Simi is the very definition of Big Pig! She narrowly escaped death (this is the only thing narrow about Simi) when, a year ago, a car accident put her into the arms of Animal Aid—and out of harm’s way from the people who “harvest” street pigs to eat them and use their hair for making brushes. Simi suffered a back injury in the accident and was semi paralyzed. This was made all the more difficult for her because she was pregnant at the time.  One day, Simi went into labor but, perhaps because of her back injury, she was unable to push. Her situation turned from serious to critical. In what may be the only Caesarian section ever to have been performed on an Indian street sow, Animal Aid’s doctors saved her life, though they were not able to save the piglets. Simi was unable to walk normally for the first 3 weeks of her care in the hospital. After the C-section she was house-bound for several weeks, and slowly she has regained full use of her legs. She can be quite fast, too, especially if she is jealous of the attention you’re giving her little friend Howie. We often debate as to whether or not (neutered) Howie is Simi’s boyfriend or if he is her adopted son, or if he is merely her Salsa dance partner.

Kangaroo looks kind of like this all the time except when she is running. We wish we had a video for these sponsorship entries. Kangaroo’s back legs are always straight. When she runs, she manages to balance on her hind tippy-toes, and moves both legs at the same time, like a kangaroo (sort of.)  Her disability probably stems from a car accident. We have had her for four years. She used to be extremely shy and it took more than a year for Kangaroo to feel comfortable being touched. But then! Something just clicked for her and she became one of the World’s Most Lovey Dovies. No one can resist sharing a heart-to-heart with Kangaroo. She’s been around, she’s seen it all, she possesses infinite wisdom and all the humor that goes with it. If your spirits are down, you can consult Kangaroo.  She is so clairvoyant you can do it from half way around the world if need be. She’ll give you back your wings every time.

Bronze (a boy) and Silver (a girl) are twin piglets who have grown to maturity from birth (mom is Goldy) back in March 2010. They rapidly outgrew the dog kennel they started in, and thanks to a generous donation from Foundation for Sustainable Development we were able to build a special pen for the growing babies. That’s where they still stay at night, but by day they tear around the cows and donkeys with tremendous energy, making mahem if they possibly can. They are both extreme snobs, with very uppity attitudes which have made it impossible for them to be enrolled in school despite their obvious intelligence. We highly recommend their sponsorship because they insist on having a variety of vegetables and fruits; they love their mother who has always spoiled them; and because they play so often in mud it is impossible to keep their school uniforms clean, so we let them run around naked.

Lily was found by a Hawala villager as an abandoned puppy hiding under a truck in Udaipur, covered in ringworm and starving. She spent the first six months at Animal aid in a nip-and-tuck battle for her life. She contracted several viruses that threatened her life; she had a chronic cold and skin problems for almost two years, and then, suddenly and slightly unexpectedly LILY GOT WELL! She has been trouble-free for more than a year, put on lots of weight, runs around playing all the time. She is affectionate with animals and very loving with humans. No matter how seriously ill Lily has ever been, she has always been a soul about whom you have to say “She’s no trouble.” She never barks, never complains, always brings a smile wherever she goes, and definitely the world would not be as sweet a place without her.  But she definitely needs sponsorship because her self confidence could use a boost.

Most visitors think Kheli should be spelled the Irish way, Kelly, but Khelna means “to play” in Hindi and Kheli is a big player. This long-nosed beauty has lived in Animal Aid for 7 years. When she plays, it’s not the typical way of bounding around and bowing. Kheli can’t do those things because of a congenital birth defect which has splayed her toes and limited mobility in her hind legs. For her, play is all about literally trembling with joy at the merest glance her way; rewarding any attention with the most lavishly enthusiastic  sneezing and tail thumping available anywhere, replete with dust cloud. She has chronic skin problems and she can be a fussy eater.

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