Karuna Society Information Theory of Change: Community-Based Dog Welfare Karuna Society believes that Animal Birth Control (ABC) and Anti-Rabies (AR) interventions are most effective when delivered as part of a continuous, community-based dog welfare programme. Sterilisation and vaccination alone cannot create lasting change if sick, injured, unsterilised and newly entering dogs receive no care, and if communities lack a reliable local service. Since 2002, Karuna has sterilised more than 13,000 dogs and continues to provide free veterinary treatment and shelter for animals in distress. The problem Community dogs in Puttaparthi and surrounding villages face injury, disease, abandonment, cruelty and uncontrolled ...

Please See our latest Newsletter HERE. Dear Friends of Karuna, For many, many years you have received newsletters and updates from Karuna Society, about our accomplishments and what we have provided for the animals: survival, medical treatment, recovery and a home with love. At present, our Secretary Narendra and his daughter Yukthi are providing wonderful stories about the rescues on our social media pages. Just this morning I realized that this is only a small part of the story of Karuna! What is happening in the background? What are our struggles? How does the extreme suffering of animals affect the ...

When to Rescue a Dog or Not? Every day, a dozen or more animals are brought into Karuna for treatment or to be admitted as an inpatient. As animal lovers, we understand the sincere concerns of people who want to help. However, over the last 25 years we have rescued and taken in thousands of dogs and we have learned some very hard lessons. We have to ask serious and important questions: is the dog very sick? Do they look well, are they starving, do they have serious and life-threatening injuries? If we take in a dog, we take her ...

Dear Friends, From my porch I look out over the mango trees of the Ahimsa Farm. I see ragi growing in the front for feeding our shelter animals and I also see a patch of green fodder grass for the cattle. Beyond all these greens I see the hills, bare and black. Every year the local goat herders put fire to the hills and within a few days and nights everything alive and green is burned off. Why???? The goat owners need fresh green grass for their grazing animals as soon as possible when the rain starts in June. Goats ...

Please see our latest Newsletter HERE. Dear Friends of Karuna, Donors, Well-Wishers, Board Members, and Staff, We are wishing all of you a very Happy New Year 2026! The year 2025 with all its hard work, problems and accomplishments is almost behind us. It is thanks to all your support and dedication that we survived another year in which we cared for 244 permanent animals, including 32 current inpatients. We sterilized 914 dogs in our area and in different municipalities. Our main accomplishment and hard work this year is the construction of the new Wildlife Rescue Centre which will be ...