Rocky had a profile set up on the website but died before a potential match was found.
Sukhadwala and co-promoter Robina Gupta dedicated the website to Rocky and now help nearly 5,000 registered members find a canine companion for their pets.
Pet ownership has boomed in India, thanks to its growing ranks of wealthy, middle and upper class professionals who are also driving sales of luxury goods.
But for the vast majority of the country, which lives on between $1 and $2 a day, pets are not an option. Stray dogs are also often beaten, herded into trucks, poisoned and dumped into pits by municipality health teams.
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