India, July 17 -- What many people dismiss as "strays," Vartika Sahani sees simply as regular visitors. The Gurugram-based AI marketer keeps the gates of her Sector 55 home open to homeless dogs and cattle, welcoming them as part of her daily routine. Her mornings begin at 5:30 am, when cows gather outside her house, lining up patiently for their daily meal.

"They know where to find kindness, wholesome food with a sense of safety and it is truly a beautiful sight to wake up to," Sahani says.

While relocating from Kuwait to India in the mid-2000s, Sahani witnessed a stray dog critically injured in a road accident. The dog's newborn puppies were left to fend for themselves on the streets of Delhi, where they died one by one, eventually su...