We are maintaining a healthy and safe street animal population through sterilisation and rabies vaccination.
Since 2005, our shelter has grown from just a couple of buildings to a fully developed hospital complex.
TOLFA wouldn’t be able to achieve so much without our hardworking and dedicated staff
TOLFA is currently running a collaborative project with the Ajmer Municipality for Animal Birth Control (ABC) and anti rabies. Below are the instructions of how to get street dogs in your area sterilised and rabies vaccinated:
On the day that our TOLFA ambulance comes to catch the dogs, we will phone you to let you know that we are coming. We will catch as many of the unoperated dogs in the area as we can. You will be required to sign a register.
The dogs will be transported to the hospital, where after a fitness check by one of our veterinary doctors, they will be operated the next day. We keep every dog for at least 3 days of post op care before releasing them back to the exact area that we caught them from.
If you observe an animal acting strangely and you think they may have rabies, please call our Rescue helpline on 9829 965585 immediately. The most common symptoms of rabies are abnormal and agitated behaviour, restlessness, ataxia (falling over), difficulty swallowing, drooling, fear of water, aggression and biting.
Please DO NOT approach an animal that you think might have rabies but instead observe from a safe distance and call our rescue helpline.
Yes we do also perform ABC (Animal Birth Control) and anti rabies vaccinations on cats but we do not come and catch the cats. You will need to call our dispensary on 9116 622585 to book a day for the operation and bring the cat yourself.
If it is a house cat, that you are able to take care of afterwards, we will do the operation that morning and you can take the cat home with you. If it an outside cat, we will admit them for 3 -5 days and do all the post operative care before requesting you to collect them for release.
If you live in Pushkar or outside of the Ajmer Municipal limits, we are not able to catch the dogs through the collaborative programme that we have with the Ajmer Municipality. We can still catch some dogs in your area, but it may take some time as we have to fit this in between meeting our government targets.
If you are able to help with a donation towards this work, it would be much appreciated.
If you have been bitten by a dog or a cat, immediately wash the wound with soap and running water for a minimum of 5 minutes. Please visit the local rabies prevention unit or local doctors for a course of post bite rabies vaccinations and possible immunoglobulin. It is vital that you visit and start the post bite rabies vaccination course within 24 hours of being bitten as a delay can cause life threatening consequences. The doctor will advise the course of treatment you require dependant on the severity of the bite. If not already vaccinated against tetanus, this may also be required.
If you are concerned that the animal may have rabies, please call our TOLFA rescue helpline on 9829 965585 if you are living in our catchment area.
The best thing to do is to call our ABC Helpline on 9116 633585 and arrange for a day when your much loved street dog can be operated. If possible, if you are able to bring the dog to TOLFA that will help us a lot and mean that we can arrange the operation and vaccination much sooner.
If you decide that you are not able to bring the dog yourself, we can pick up but for just one dog there is a longer waiting list and also when they come in our catching vehicle they will be mixing with dogs from other areas.
The operation and rabies vaccination will be done for free but if you decide you would still like to give a donation, it would be gratefully received.
The cats and dogs need to be at least 6 months for us to be able to perform ABC (Animal Birth Control). We automatically give anti rabies vaccinations to every dog and cat that we sterilise.
Rabies vaccinations can be done earlier from 3 months old, but you will need to bring the cat or dog to one of our dispensaries for the vaccination.
After we return the dogs that we have caught for ABC , you may see a shaved patch underneath them or on their side as well as a small notch cut out of their left ear and a tattoo in their other ear.
In order to make the operation site sterile, we have to shave off all of the hair from the area so that we are able to disinfect the site properly. The small notch in the left ear is so that we know that, that dog has already been sterilised to prevent re capture of the same dog.
