Happy endings · Real animals

Pets we’ve already helped

Not every story is still urgent. Some animals are safe now — fed, treated, adopted, or finally resting easy. This page is for those wins: proof that care on the ground works.

Verna mange pups Puppy & kitten story Rucy’s journey

How this page works

From the street to safety

Save the Dogs in Goa supports sterilisation, feeding, and medical care with a team on the ground. We also work alongside other rescuers and foundations when an animal needs a path to a home. Where we share film from partners, we only do so with permission.

Treated · done

Verna — 3 pups & one big doggie with mange

They were on the roadside in Verna with raw, itchy mange. That chapter is closed now — they’ve been treated and no longer need emergency help.

We’re keeping their story here as proof that medicine, food and people on the ground change lives. Donations that went to this case helped get them through it.

3 puppies + 1 adult · Verna roadside
Mange treatment completed
No longer listed under Current needs

Was bank reference VERNA · now a happy ending on this page

See current needs →

Before · mange in Verna

Roadside · before care

Shared with permission

A tiny puppy & a kitten — from bed to the yard

A little pair that found warmth, rest, and care after the hard start so many street animals know — then a first taste of the outdoors with friends waiting beyond the gate.

Media shared with kind permission from Furr Friend Foundation (FFF). Kay helped with the adoption side of their story, and we’re grateful to show how collaboration gets animals into safer hands.

Puppy and kitten · rest and playtime
Outside with the pack · growing confidence
Videos used only with FFF permission

Credit: Furr Friend Foundation · used with permission

On the bed · settling in

Playtime · best mates

Outside · meeting the pack

Shared with permission from Furr Friend Foundation — playtime · yard · more links welcome anytime.

Before · alone and wary

After · learning trust

Ongoing care

Rucy — from the street to a safe place

A gentle, nervous soul who needed time, food, and people who wouldn’t give up. Her before-and-after says more than words.

You can still stand with her through virtual adoption — £25 a month helps keep her supported, with updates for her circle of carers.

Virtually adopt Rucy

Proof on paper

Vaccination & care cards

Real cards from dogs treated on the ground — dates for rabies, follow-ups, and next visits. Quiet evidence that help doesn’t stop after one day.

Stack of dog vaccination and care cards laid out on a seat, filled in by hand — Care cards ready for the dogs · next vaccine dates noted by hand

Also on the ground

Every sterilisation, feed, and recovery counts

Not every animal has a name on this page yet — but dozens are helped through CNVR, meds, and daily feeding rounds. More faces will land here as we get permission and media ready.

Safe indoors after care

Recovery after treatment

Young lives given a chance

Help the next animal get a page like this

Food, meds, and sterilisation today become tomorrow’s quiet wins.

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