 Paws
In The City is an all-volunteer nonprofit 501(c) 3 organization committed
to ending the abuse, neglect and overpopulation of Dallas area dogs
and cats. Our goal is that every adoptable dog and cat get a loving
home. By providing money for spay/neuter and increasing the adoption
rate, we take the first step in making Dallas a no kill city.
Paws In The City has spent many years rescuing and healing the abused,
neglected and abandoned dogs and cats of our community. We have placed
dogs and cats into our foster homes and then into adoptive homes.
We also conduct offsite adoptions for the City of Dallas municipal
animal shelter because they kill almost 30,000 animals..add the metroplex
and it climbs to 200,000. Every dollar raised goes to foster, adoption,
medical and spay/neuter programs.
Paw In The City’s Accomplishments:
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Reducing the number
of animals killed at the City of Dallas Animal Shelter by
having them attend our offsite adoption events along with
our foster animals AND pulling animals on death row from
that city shelter. |
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Increasing the number of animals adopted every year |
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Offering the public a Guest Dog
Program. We help citizens who find strays or need to re-home
a pet by posting them on our website and inviting them to
attend our adoption |
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Providing a Medical Assistance
Fund which offers the public help with expensive surgeries
or treatments that they could not afford on their own |
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Consistently raising substantial
funds at the Top Hat & Tails fundraiser every year and
giving a portion of them to free spay/neuter programs such
as Metoroplex Animal Coalition and education programs such
as Companions for Life which teaches responsible pet ownership |
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Having the most exciting and
unique special event fundraisers in town (4-5 events a year) |
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Taking in dogs and cats that
other organizations overlook due to illness, age or breed.
For example, treating heartworm positive dogs who might otherwise
have been killed at the city shelter because they would not
be put in their adoption program or taking in older dogs
or cats or even pure bred pits with good personalities and
mixed breeds of all sizes. |
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Creating a training program for
our dogs so that no dog is in our program due to behavioral
issues for very long or sits in a kennel without a foster
home. We are committed to their emotional and mental well
being as well as their physical needs |
Paws In The City’s ADOPTION EVENTS are held either at
Pet Supplies Plus on Mockingbird and at World Market in North
Dallas by the Galleria every Saturday from 11am-4pm. We also
attend numerous special events around the metroplex. See our
website for locations and times
Working with other Organizations
Educating people of the importance of spaying/neutering their
pets is critical to our mission. We work closely with and promote
2 other organizations whose focus is on education and spay/neuter.
The Metroplex Animal Coalition provides free spay/neuter vouchers
to residents who cannot afford to have their animals altered
and Companions for Life, offers educational programs and materials
to Dallas Animal Services and to the community.
Board Members:
Becky Haisma John HarperTara HarperAlan LintelMartha PowellPaula Smith
Advisory Board:
Preston Pearson - Dallas Cowboy Great; Member-Dallas Animal Shelter
Commission
Elaine Munch - President-Metroplex Animal Coalition;
past Animal Shelter Commissioner
Tina Fairbanks - past Fundraising Chair-SPCA San Francisco
Rebecca Poling - Companions for Life President and member
Dallas Animal Shelter Commissioner
Holly Forsythe - Co-Owner Sambuca Restaurants, Advisory Board
of Operation Kindness
Click here for our Press & Patron
Information Packet
Click here for our 2009 Annual Report |
