**SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT** DUE TO THE WEATHER, THE PAWS MEETING FOR MONDAY, FEB. 1 HAS BEEN POSTPONED. THE NEXT PAWS MEETING WILL BE MONDAY, FEB. 8 IN AHOSKIE. An invitation from brothers John and Jordan,"Please watch A PAWS New Year Wish!" John and Jordan also star in their own movie! Congratulations to John and Jordan on going to their new home! Add a new love to your life in 2010. Consider a PAWS pet adoption(s). NEWS FLASH - PAWS won 6th place in Care2.com's "America's Favorite Shelter Contest"! Our appreciation to all friends and supporters who voted for PAWS. Welcome to the official website of PAWS of Hertford County, North Carolina. Our initials PAWS stand for "Protecting Animals Worth Saving". We are a small non-profit group of volunteers who have dedicated ourselves to improving the state of animal welfare in Hertford County. Each year in North Carolina, thousands of companion animals arrive in animal shelters. Sadly, many of them never have the second chance they deserve. We think these animals deserve better and are working with Animal Control to increase the numbers of adoptions from our municipal shelter. PAWS Dog "Newbie", now known as "Frank", adopted in 2009. Read Frank's story. Our mission is: Check Out Our Photo Gallery! Click on this link to watch "Saving Lives", a PAWS YouTube video!
*To provide humane treatment for unwanted, abandoned, and stray animals in our community,
*To promote animal adoption from animal shelters and rescue groups,
*To educate the community in responsible animal care,
*To provide foster care for animals who need it, and
*To aggressively promote spaying or neutering of pets to reduce the numbers of cats and dogs without homes.
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How You Can Help
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PAWS Kitty "Katie", adopted in 2009. | ||
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PAWS wishes to thank the PEDIGREE Foundation for their support of PAWS dog adoptions. Assist the Foundation and their grant recipients by feeding your dogs PEDIGREE's quality dog food. A part of your purchase price goes to The Foundation. Read more about how you can help through PEDIGREE by clicking here. | ||
To help make our dogs much more comfortable in their shelter kennels, please click on the "Kuranda Beds" icon above. These well-made beds get the dogs up off the cement floor, making them much more comfortable when they sleep. By clicking on the icon, you can make an online donation of a Kuranda bed.
All donations to PAWS are tax-deductable.
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If you believe that the work we do is important, we invite you to join in and help us make Hertford County a better place for all of God's creatures.
"Be the change you wish to see in the world" . . . .Ghandi