Panhandle Animal Welfare Society
PAWS – OUR HISTORY
MISSION STATEMENT
- To offer refuge and medical care to injured animals.
- To provide an opportunity for life to homeless animals.
- To protect animals from cruelty, neglect, carelessness and ignorance.
- To foster a public sentiment of humanity and gentleness toward animals.
- To encourage and promote responsible pet ownership.
- To reduce companion animal overpopulation through humane education and spay and neuter advocacy.
SERVICES OFFERED
The Humane Society and Adoption Center at PAWS offers the services including:
- Animal care and adoptions
- Microchip implants
- Animal rescue
- Lost and found services
- Humane education
- Pet cremation services
- 24-hour emergency services
- Pet foster care
- First Strike campaign
- Volunteer opportunities
- Pet therapy
- Spay/neuter clinic
- Low cost medical clinic for low-income residents
- The PAWS Junkyard Dog Gift n’ Thrift
OUR STAFF
Our Humane Services Division oversees the care of the animals taken into the Adoption Center and The Vet Clinic.
Our Animal Services Division helps insure the public safety and provides safer environmental conditions for animals. Though the division is primarily a public safety department, the emphasis is on the need for humane treatment in the fulfillment of objectives. Specific efforts are geared to being part of the solution to animal services problems rather than merely treating the symptoms.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The Board of Directors oversee and guide the staff at PAWS and include professional individuals from local businesses and organizations. Contact us about this exciting opportunity!
PHILOSOPHY
The philosophy of the Humane Society and Adoption Center at PAWS is as follows:
- Because animals are part of our environment, the relationship between people and animals is unique and special.
- Since humans have chosen to domesticate animals, we have a moral and legal responsibility to care for and protect them.
- Yet many have failed in this responsibility. Man has exploited and endangered wild animals.
- They have abandoned their companion animals, condemning them to suffering, starvation and disease.
- Man has allowed thousands of unwanted puppies and kittens to be born each day, thus perpetuating the cycle of neglect and abuse.
- To protect animals from this cruelty, our community needs The Panhandle Animal Welfare Society.
- We seek to uplift the community by encouraging the humane treatment of all animals.
After all, a better world for animals will be a better world for people too.