P.A.W.S. (Plaquemines Animal Welfare Society) is a non-profit organization dedicated to spaying and neutering of animals in order to control the population of unwanted animals, thus reducing the need for euthanasia, starvation and cruel death in our area.

Since 1998, P.A.W.S. volunteers have made weekly visits to the animal control facility in Belle Chasse to remove as many potentially adoptable animals as we can. We're limited by the lack of space and suitable foster homes. Each animal rescued by P.A.W.S. is taken directly to a veterinarian to be health-checked, sterilized, and given necessary medical treatment. P.A.W.S. funds all health-care expenses.

" P.A.W.S." ADOPTION CENTER is just the first step in our long-term work in Plaquemines Parish. Our goal is to obtain funding to build a modern, efficient adoption center equipped with covered dog runs, cat "condos", veterinary examination area, and a people-friendly area where prospective pet owners can interact with adoptable pets.
Without our volunteers & adoption program, all of the animals you see pictured on the PAWS website would not have had the opportunity to find their forever home.

We currently have several foster homes and we can always use people to come and play with and walk dog to help socialize them. If you have a skill in training dogs,we would love to have you come and assist in training our dogs to walk on lead,sit,stay and down. This will help a great deal in helping to get these guys and gals adopted. Also if you would love to own an animal but don't have the extra funds to take care of your own, foster one of ours and we take care of the needs until it finds it's forever home.This way you can always have the love of a pet and still help a great animal find it's place in the world. We do ask you to bring the dog or cat to Pet Smart each Saturday to try and help find a home for him or her.
If you would like to help in any way, may it be as: Foster parent, Writing Grants, Fund Raising Activities, Cleaning, Walking dogs, Feeding and Cleaning Cat Cages, Donations of money, Time, Supplies. Please do not hesitate to contact us at 504-392-1601 or mailto:paws2003@bellsouth.net
 
We will continue to host adoption Saturdays at the Harvey PetSmart on Manhattan Boulevard. At present, we maintain the cat condos in the store.

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