Please note that the independent
community shelters and other organisations listed here are not
accredited, inspected or endorsed by, or affiliated with CAIM. The list
is to be used as an informational resource only.
BREED SPECIFIC RESCUE GROUPS
Assaro Australian Shepherd South African Rescue Organisation
Basset Adoptions - Rehoming of Bassets in need
Beagle Rescue & Adoption
Beagle & Basset Rescue Network SA
Boerboel & Mastiff Welfare Network SA
Border Collie Rescue - Jhb
Border Collie Rescue- Kalbaskraal, Malmesbury
Boxer Rescue -Western Province
Bull Terrier, Adorabull Rescue & Rehabilitation - Nationwide
Bull Terrier Rescue South Africa
Boston Terrier Rescue SA
Boston Terriers - Networking
Bouvier des Flandres Rescue - Benoni (Part of Wolf's Haven)
Boxer Rescue South Africa - Germiston
Chow Chow Africa
Cape Dachshund Rescue - Western Cape Area
Dachshund Rescue South Africa
Dachshunds in Need in South Africa
The Dachshund Haven
Dalmation Rescue SA - Jhb & Cape Town
Dobermann Rescue South Africa
Great Dane Rescue - Cape Town
Greyhound Rescue Group SA
Greyhound Rescue SA
GSD's in Need South Africa
Husky Rescue SA - East Rand, West Rand, North of Jhb, Benoni
Jack Russell Adoptions SA
Jack Russell Rescue - Cape Town
Labrador & Golden Retriever Rescue & Rehoming
Labrador Retriever Kennel Club - Rescue & Rehoming
Maltese & Poodles - Networking
Nordic Rescue - Huskies Lost/Found & Homeless
Peke Me - Pekingese Rescue of South Africa
Persian Rescue - Jhb
Pitbulls - Underdogs SA
Poodles & Maltese SA
Pomeranians & Toy Poms - Networking
Pug Rescue SA - Benoni
Rescue Battery Hens - Cape Town
Rhodesion Ridgeback Rescue SA - Pretoria
Rhodesian Ridgeback Rescue Me
Rottie Rescue - Friend of the Rottweiler Rescue & Rehome
SA Basset Adoptions - Adoptions & Rehoming
SA Boerboel & Mastiff Welfare Network
Schnauzer Friends SA - Rescue & Re-home
Scottish Terrier Rescue SA
Shetland Sheepdog Club - Rescue
Spaniels in Need
Spaniel Rescue South Africa
Staffordshire Terrier Rescue SA
Vervet Monkey Foundation - Tzaneen
WC Siberian Rescue - Cape Town
Yorkie Rescue - Cape Town
NATIONWIDE
4 Paws Network SA - Helping find homes for animals in shelters and SPCAs around the countryAACL Animal Anti-Cruelty League
ACD Rescue South Africa - Australian Cattle Dog Rescue
Boxer Rescue South Africa
Chicken Rescue & Rehabilitation
Exotic Animal Rescue
Fabulous Feline Adoptions
Furkidz - Searchable database of adoptable rescue pets in your area
Little Critters Rescue Club - Guinea Pigs, Rabbits and Hamsters
NAWTT National Animal Welfare Task Team
No More Suffering
NCat Empowering Cat Caregivers Countrywide
NSP National Sterilization Project
Owl Rescue Centre
PDSA - Cape Town, George & Soweto
Pets in Need SA
SA Animal Supporters Unite
SA Foster Pet Parents & Adoption Network
SAMAST - Mass Animal Sterilisation Trust
Soldiers of the Innocent
SPCA - Contact list of all SPCAs in the country
WESTERN CAPE
4PAWS - PhilippiAACL Animal Anti Cruelty League - Epping and Bellville
Adopt-a-Pet - Ottery
African Tails - Milnerton Surrounds (Du Noon and Joe Slovo townships)
Animal Lighthouse - Hopefield
Animal Voice
Animal Welfare Helderberg - Gordon's Bay
Animal Welfare Society of South Africa - Philippi
Aniwell - Northern areas of Cape Town
ARO Animal Rescue Organisation - Schaapkraal, Ottery
ART Animal Rescue Team - Bellville
in under privileged areas
AWSS Animal Welfare Society StellenboschBorder Collie Rescue- Kalbaskraal, Malmesbury
Boxer Rescue - Cape Town
Bull Terrier Rescue Inc - Cape Town
CAAA Capetonians Against Animal Abuse - Tygervalley, Pinelands & Paarden Eiland
Cape Dachshund Rescue - Western Cape Area
Cape Town Lost & Found Pets
Cart Horse Protection Association - Epping
Caspian Alexander Trust - Woodstock
CAT Cat Action Team - Table View
CTSN Cat Trapping & Sterilisation Network - Greater Cape Town area
CHARM Caring Hearts Animal Rescue Mission
CHAIN Community Helping Animals in Need - Tulbach, Ceres, Prince Alfred, Wolseley & Gouda
DARG Domestic Animal Rescue Group - Hout Bay
Deep South Animal Educare - Mountain View, Ocean View, Red Hill & Rasta Camp
DHRC Dassenberg Horse Rescue Centre
Dogs Deserve Better - Informal communities around Malmesbury
Drakenstein Animal Rescue - Paarl
Eseltjierus Donkey Sanctuary - McGregor
Fallen Angels - Melkbosstrand
FAW Fisantekraal Animal Welfare - Fisantekraal, Morning Star & Surrounding farms (Durbanville)
Furry Friends - Bellville
GAWS Grabouw Animal Welfare Society
Great Dane Rescue - Cape Town
HAWS Hermanus Animal Welfare Society
Horse Adoption SPCA - Grassy Park
Hottentots Holland Animal Welfare - Sir Lowry's Pass
Ikkos Equine Sanctuary- Oudtshoorn
Jack Russell Rescue - Cape Town
KAPS Karoo Animal Protection Society - Barrydale
Kleinmond Animal Welfare Society
KAWS Knysna Animal Welfare
LEAPS Lamberts & Elands Animal Protection Services - Elands Bay, Lamberts Bay and Vredenburg
LLF The Lucky Lucy Foundation - Fisantekraal
Lost and Found Pets - Helderberg
Matzikama Dierebeskerming - Vredendal
Mdzananda Animal Welfare Clinic - Khayelitsha
Mercy Animal Rescue - Atlantic Seaboard, V&A Waterfront & dockyard area
National Sterilization Project
Oudtshoorn Dogs in Need
Overberg Pet Care Society - Villiersdorp & Botriver
PAWS Plett Animal Welfare Services - Knysna's border to Eastern Cape Border: Diepwalle to Storms River
Paws for a Cause
PawFriends - Westlake Township, Steenberg
Peanut Animal Welfare - Melkbosstrand
PetPals - Morkels Cottage & Beverly Hills communities (Strand, Helderberg)
PETS Pet Empowerment in Townships
Piketberg Animal Welfare
PlumPets - Plumstead
PUPP Project for the Upliftment of Pets & People - Bergvliet
Raise 'n Rescue
Rescue Battery Hens - Cape Town
Saldanha Animal Care - Saldanha area (West Coast)
SPCA - Breede Valley (Worcester and surrounding areas)
SPCA - Garden Route
SPCA - Grassy Park, Cape Town
SPCA - Paarl
SPCA - Swartland & West Coast
SPCA - Wellington
SPCA - Winelands (Robertson, McGregor, Bonnievale, Ashton & Montagu)
TEARS The Emma Animal Rescue Society - Kommetjie
The Kitten Cottage
Township Animal Rescue - Lwandle/Nomzamo/Somerset West/Strand/Gordons Bay
TUFCAT The UWC Feral Cat Project - University of the Western Cape
Uitsig Animal Rescue Centre - Fisantekraal
Watershed - Animal Rescue & Rehabilitation Fund
WC Siberian Rescue - Cape Town
Yorkie Rescue - Cape Town
EASTERN CAPE
Animal Outreaches - Port ElizabethAnimal Welfare Society PE - Port Elizabeth
CSI Camdeboo Sterilisation Initiative - Graaff Reinet
Cat Care - Port Elizabeth
Eastern Cape Horse Care Unit - PE, Uitenhage, Despatch, Humansdorp & Grahamstown
EL Pet Pals - Animal Sanctuary, East London
FACE Farm Animal Centre for Education - Grahamstown
Highveld Horse Care Unit - Meyerton
Mthatha Rural Horse Rescue - Transkei
PEAR Port Elizabeth Animal Rescue
Sanccob - Cape St Francis
Save-a-Pet Rescue Centre - Greenbushes, Port Elizabeth
SPCA - East London
SPCA - Empangeni
SPCA - Graaf Reinet
SPCA Uitenhage - Port Elizabeth
SARC Steytlerville Animal Rescue Centre - Karoo
TAWI Transkei Animal Welfare Initiative - Port St Johns area & surrounds
FREE STATE
Cluny Animal Trust - Clarens, Fouriesburg, Bethlehem, Free StateFour Paws - Bethlehem
New Beginnings - Bloemfontein, Vryburg, Christiana
Purrpaws for Life - Viljoensdrif
GAUTENG
African Blessings Horses - Bronkhorstspruit DistrictAfrican Blessings Donkeys
Airdales Rescue - Benoni (Part of Wolf's Haven)
Alley Cat Allies - Benoni
Animal Ambulance - Pretoria
Animal Anti-Cruelty League
Animal Awareness - Pretoria
Animals in Distress - Midrand
AARF Animal Rescue Rehome Foundation - Krugersdorp
Ark Animal Centre - Fourways/Dainfern, Jhb
Barking Mad - Midrand
Border Collie Rescue
Bouvier des Flandres Rescue - Benoni (Part of Wolf's Haven)
The Bouvier Club (Rescue) - Parktown
Boxer Rescue South Africa - Germiston
Cats 9 Lives - Pretoria
Cat Pals - Pretoria
The Cat Samaritan - Bromhof
CLAW Community Led Animal Welfare - Durban Deep, Jhb
Co-Sanc Cat Shelter & Adoption Centre - Witkoppen, Jhb
Dee's Rescue - Crowthorne
FORA Friends of Rescued Animals - Krugersdorp and surrounding areas
4 Our Paws - Fourways
Free Me Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre - North of Jhb
Friends of the Cat - Emmarentia, Jhb
Happy Hooves Horse Haven - in the valley between the foothills of the Magaliesburg Mountains and the Witwaters Randjie
Happy Yappers - Magaliesburg
Hopeful Homeless - Germiston
Husky Rescue - East Rand, West Rand, North of Jhb, Benoni
Irwin Animal Rescue - Henley on Klip
Judd & Clawds Helping Hands
Kempton Park Ferals & Abandoned Cats - Feeding, trapping, sterilizing, vaccinating and rehoming abandoned cats
Kitty & Puppy Haven - Jhb
Kitten Action - Kloof, Pretoria
Kitten Corner - Pretoria
Kitty Shelter - Parkwood
Kneading Paws - All Gauteng
Labrador Retriever Kennel Club - Rescue & Rehoming
No More Suffering - Jhb
Nordic Rescue - Huskies Lost/Found & Homeless
Pawesome Wacky Whiskers Rescue and Rehoming
Paws R Us - Rescue & Rehoming
Perfection Rescues - Pretoria
Persian Rescue - Jhb
Pet Rescue - Benoni
PETS Pets Empowerment in Townships - Witbank
Petsave - Jhb (Special needs & disabled pets)
Pug Rescue - Benoni
Pure Love - Midrand
Rhodesion Ridgeback Rescue SA - Pretoria
Shetland Sheepdog Club - Rescue
Siamese Rescue - Minki Liu Cattery
SPCA - Alberton
SPCA - Benoni
SPCA - Johannesburg & Krugersdorp
SPCA - Sandton & Eastern Metro
SPCA - Tshwane & Centurion
SPCA - Vereeniging
Soweto Animal Rescue & Advisory Centre - Soweto & Surrounds
The South African Dachshund Club Rescue
The South African Rhodesian Ridgeback Club - Rescue & Missing Dogs
Trix 4 Animals - Pretoria East
Underdogs SA Rehabilitation Centre - Specialising in American Pitbull Terriers
Wet Nose - Bronkhorstspruit (Gauteng & surrounding areas)
Whiskers and Snouts - Jhb
Wolf's Haven Animal Sanctuary - Benoni
Wollies Animal Project - Pretoria North
Woodrock Animal Rescue - Between Fourways & Hartbeespoort
World Animal Watch
KWAZULU NATAL
eMthunzini - Birds, Bats, Monkeys, Sheep, ChickenHorse 'n Home - Durban
Kitten Action - Kloof, Durban
KZN Pit Bull Rescue
Mazarat - Waterfall, KZN
North Coast Foster & Rescue Network - Ballito
Out of the Blue Animal Rescue - Hillcrest
PACT - Phoenix, Durban
Pawfect Nation - All areas of KZN
Purrfect Home4Ever - Durban
Project Dog - Durban
Second Chance Sanctuary - Greater Durban Area
SPCA - Durban & Coast
Sport Horse Sanctuary - Retirement Livery, Rescue, Rehabilitation and Homing
TEAR Tasha's Equine & Animal Rescue - Weenen and surrounding areas
The Monkey Helpline - Westville, near Durban
4 Paws and a Tale Rescue - Scottsburgh & surrounding areas
LIMPOPO
Vervet Monkey Foundation - TzaneenMPUMALANGA
Marloth Wildlife FundPro-Life Pet Rescue, Rehabilitation & Adoption Agency - Nelspruit
NORTHERN CAPE
NDDF Namaqua Dog & Donkey Foundation - Based in JhbNORTH WEST
Angels Refuge SA - MafekingHAWS Hartebeespoort Animal Welfare Society - Rietfontein
Helping Paws - Potchefstroom
PAWS - Potchefstroom
NAMIBIA
Etosha Rescue and Adoption CentreHave a Heart - Outjo
Namibia Animal Awareness
NAWTT - National Animal Welfare Task Team
Paws & Claws
Tierschutzverein SPCA - Swakopmund
SPCA Windhoek
SANCTUARIES
The Ann van Dyk Cheetah Centre - North WestBarberspan Bird Sanctuary - North West
CARE Centre for Animal Rehabilitation & Education - Limpopo
Elephant Sanctuary - Hartbeespoort Dam
Elephant Sanctuary - Plettenberg Bay
Elephant Sanctuary - Hazyview
Free Me Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre - Jhb North
Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre - Limpopo
HuskyRomi Wolf Sanctuary - Reitz
The Jane Goodall Institute Chimpanzee Eden - Mpumalanga
Mohololo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre - Limpopo
Monkeyland Primate Sanctuary - Plettenberg Bay
Parrot Sanctuary - West Coast, northern and southern suburbs and Cape Town
Penguins Eastern Cape Rescue & Rehabilitation - Cape St Francis
SanWild Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre & Sanctuary - Limpopo
OTHER
Activists for Animals AfricaBan Canned Lion Hunting
Bats KZN Bat Interest Group of KZN
Beauty Without Cruelty
Boycott Brain Boswell Circus
Canine Zone - Publishers of Cesar's Way in SA
Compassion in World Farming
Dolphin Action and Protection Group - Fish Hoek
Elated
EWT The Endangered Wildlife Trust
Fur Free SA
Monkey Helpline
No Foie Gras SA
Pet Wise - Responsible Pet Ownership
Sanccob - Table View
Sea Alert SA - Cape Town
The Seals of Nam
Sentience
Silent Heroes Foundation - Improving animal and human health in Africa by supporting local veterinarians, physicians, and conservationists.
Stop Crush - Worldwide
Voice for Horses - Worldwide
WAG
Wild Cats World
WSPA World Society for the Protection of Animals