TDR-4402
Amani
Vaccinated and sterilisedCalm around goats and chickens, and completely uninterested in cats. Wants one person to follow around all day.
Adopt
Most dogs go home. These nine cannot.
Almost every dog we treat goes straight back to the compound or street it came from, and that is the right outcome. Nine are in the kennels on Njiro Road because there is nowhere for them to go back to.
26kennels, kept deliberately small
9dogs listed today
4on a two-week home trial
2going home this week
Numbers change every Monday. If a dog you were reading about has gone, the entry stays up for a week with the outcome, because people ask.
Waiting on Njiro Road
TDR-4351
Neema
Vaccinated and sterilisedRaised a litter under a shop veranda. Gentle, food-focused, and house-trained inside a fortnight.
TDR-4471
Juma
Vaccinated, sterilise at 6 monthsConfident, noisy, learns fast. Best in a household that already has a settled adult dog.
TDR-4188
Rafiki
Vaccinated and sterilisedLived behind a hotel kitchen for years. Unbothered by traffic, crowds, motorbikes or thunder.
TDR-4506
Bahati
Vaccinated and sterilisedCame in with a fractured hind leg that is healing well. Will be ready to leave in about three weeks.
TDR-4388
Tumaini
Vaccinated and sterilisedTook three weeks to come out from under the kennel bench. Now leans on every person who sits down.
TDR-4504
Zuri
Vaccinated, sterilise at 6 monthsOne of four siblings from a collapsed drain. Sharp, busy, and ready for something to do.
TDR-4297
Asha
Vaccinated and sterilisedWas a guard dog on a plot that was sold. Quiet indoors, watchful at the gate, good with older children.
TDR-4433
Simba
Vaccinated and sterilisedLived under an abandoned lorry with his mother. Bold with people, careful with other dogs.
How adoption works
Tell us about your home
A short form: where you live, who else lives there, whether the plot is fenced, and what you want from a dog. We read every one and reply within three days.
Come and meet them
At the kennels on Njiro Road, on a weekday morning while it is cool. Bring everyone who lives in the house, including the children.
We visit you
One hour, mostly spent looking at gates and walls. We are checking the dog cannot get onto a road, not judging your house.
Two weeks at home
The dog comes to you on trial with food, a lead and a phone number. If it is not working, we collect the dog, and nobody has failed.
Adoption day
You get the full record — vaccination dates, surgery notes, record number — and the dog gets a collar tag with the same number on it.
Fees and travel
Adoption inside Tanzania costs TZS 40,000, which covers the collar, the record and the first booster. Adopters abroad pay the real cost of export papers, crate and flight — usually between $950 and $1,400 — and must meet the dog in Arusha before travel. We do not ship dogs to people who have not met them.
Gone home this year
| Record | Dog | Came from | Went to | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TDR-4104 | Tausi | Mto wa Mbu | A family in Ngaramtoni | 2 Aug |
| TDR-4061 | Baraka | Arusha town | Back to his own household, leg healed | 27 Jul |
| TDR-3988 | Malaika | Kisongo | A veterinary nurse in Moshi | 14 Jul |
| TDR-3972 | Kito | Mto wa Mbu | Back to his own street, sterilised | 23 Mar |
| TDR-3940 | Nuru | Monduli Juu | Adopter in Nairobi, travelled by road | 9 Mar |
Two thirds of the dogs that leave the kennels go back to the household or street they came from once they are well. Adoption is the exception, not the aim.
Adoption enquiry
Tell us roughly what you are looking for. A person reads this, not a queue.
Fund the next clinic day
One hundred and eighty dollars puts the vehicle, the team and the drugs in a village square for a day — about ninety dogs vaccinated and twenty sterilised, at no cost to the households that feed them.