WELFARE SOCIETY
Dedicated to Promoting Animal Welfare
CAN YOU HELP?
PAWS is dependent on your generous donations to help local animals in need.
Click on the Paypal donate button below to help.
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Donations can also be mailed to:
Pocono Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)
Stroudsburg, PA 18360
Please make checks payable to PAWS
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Upcoming Events:
Tricky Tray for Mofo, the cat
and to help the fight against
animal abuse & neglect
When: Sunday, April 15th
doors open at 1:00pm, drawings start at 3pm
Where: American Legion, East Stroudsburg, PA
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Thank you to everyone that supported our 3rd Annual PAWS in the Park Dog Walk and Blessing! Because of our volunteers and supporters of PAWS, we are able to continue to help animals in the Pocono area
Click Here for pictures from our 3rd annual PAWS in the Park Dog Walk & Blessing
Click Here for a list of our Adoptable Pets
Pocono Animal Welfare Society, Inc. (PAWS) is a 501c3 non-profit, all-volunteer organization. We are committed to helping abandoned, abused, lost and unwanted animals in the Pocono region and to promoting community awareness about spay/neuter, animal wellness and safety.
We do not maintain a shelter/facility; instead, we rely on the generosity and kindness of volunteers who are willing to foster animals in need.
How We’ve Helped Local Animals Since May 2009
Prior to early 2009, our founders functioned independently as individuals helping local animals by providing medical care and home placement where possible. Since incorporating and receiving our non-profit status as “PAWS”, we have been able as a group to help dogs, cats and owners with the following services:
- Spay/Neuter
- Medical Care (Medical conditions beyond spay/neuter, including surgeries and ongoing treatment for senior dogs in long-term foster.)
- Adoptions
- Euthanasia for very sick dogs when owners could not afford or dog had been abandoned.
- Posting pets on behalf of the owners that must relinquish them.
- Direct placement of animals (linking owner surrenders of pets directly with new families, thereby bypassing the rescue route completely.)
We provide quality medical care for any animals we take in. No animal is adopted out without being spayed/neutered and microchipped. We also carefully screen potential adopters. We are able to provide these services only as a result of fundraising, public donations, adoption fees and personal contributions by PAWS founding members.
We are very grateful for your donations!
We believe educating young people is one of the keys to improving societal attitudes toward animal welfare. We’ve begun our community awareness campaign by donating books to local libraries. The topics covered in the books range from the importance of spaying and neutering ALL animals to the life of a shelter dog to the sadness and neglect experienced by dogs that are continually chained. In addition to being placed on library shelves, these books will be read during children’s story hours.
We hope to expand upon our humane education program in 2011 by providing educational tools for in-school programs and public awareness campaigns.
If you like what we do and would like to help, please drop us a line by way of the “Contact Us” page.
Pocono Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)
Stroudsburg, PA 18360
info@poconoanimalwelfaresociety.org
