Our Founder/Director, Mrs. Hansa Roy, is a retired geoscientist who has looked after the lifetime well being of more than four thousand stray dogs in Baroda over two decades. She has given two decades of her life, time, emotions, efforts and her money for selfless service. She believes there is no greater joy than dirtying your own hands for the cause and does all the ground work at age sixty three. She has been able to touch more than four thousand canine lives (sterilised and vaccinated against rabies) on the streets who have been and are being cared for their entire lifetime. In the absence of public participation, she has combed locations in different areas ever since 2005, befriended stray dogs through feeding and ensured to get them sterilised and vaccinated against rabies. Single handed, she has managed to attain 100% sterilisation with no incidence of rabies ever in any of her dogs under her care. She has filed more than hundred police cases and has provided guidance to others too. She attends Court hearings related to the animal cruelty cases filed by her.

Presently, she travels round about fifty kilometres everyday tending to an average three hundred stray dogs at different locations across Baroda, who are under her lifetime care. Each of her children, that is what she prefers to calls them, have a name they identify themselves with and a compelling heroic story of their own. They await her, to be fed one nutritious meal in a clean bowl, have their medical needs looked after and get the love and dignity they so deserve. She is a daily constant in their otherwise unpredictable life.

With poor facilities for Animal Birth Control in Baroda at present, she struggles to get stray dogs sterilised. She envisions a rabies free Baroda where fellow human beings learn to live in harmony and symbiotic relationship with stray dogs.

Our co-founder, Dr. Kuhu Roy is a practicing nutritionist with a passion in the area of Metabolic Dysfunction associated Steatotic Liver Disease and other lifestyle disorders.

When streets get too cold and cruel for survival, she adopts those with special needs; blind, paralyzed, amputees. She believes this marginalized segment of stray dogs is worthy of love and a home.

Born out of her grief of having seen countless painful deaths in the past two decades of her service to stray dogs and the death due to negligence of her dog boss named Butter as the final nail in the coffin, she took up on the taboo and made her mission to normalize the conversation around the loss of companion animals in India. A first in India, she runs and moderates support groups for those grieving the loss of their companion animals since 2021. She proudly states that her children on three and four legs put her on the trajectory to become India’s first pet loss grief specialist.

Along with Mrs. Roy, she has co-authored Can a stray dog become man’s best friend? 5 steps to harmonious living with stray dogs decoding the Animal Birth Control (ABC) programme to create awareness regarding spay and neuter. She believes that ABC is the only means to strive for man-stray dog harmony and has been requesting the Government to digitalise the scientific programme for accountability and transparency, regardless of the Animal Birth Control Rules, 2023.

Over two decades, they have adopted rescued stray dogs, senior dogs and dogs with special needs; Butter, Sundae, Chamgi, Matalu, Georgina, Jalebi, Tweeky, Orange, Ronaldo, Natasha, Alisha, Bhaalu, Guchguch, Tri Babu, Kaniya, Disco, Christopher, Chhutki, Ghoplu, Baldev, Jammy, Jazz, Zenobia, Mohini, Junior, Shyam, Ascites Rani, Stephanie, Chotu, Delma, Dixa Babu, Rapunzel, Amma, Bada Kaan, Mallika, Chinki, White Collar, Mamu, Fruit Laali, Sheru, Distemper, Venus, Dharmendra, Jhaploo, Nimmi, Victor and Suhasini.