We are always searching for volunteers to help us in the Hertford County Animal Shelter as animal caretakers.  Shelter volunteers are also needed to welcome visitors to our shelter, assist with the adoption process and take an active role in helping prospective adoptors choose the pet that is right for them.

Please contact us if you are interested in temporarily fostering cats or dogs, kittens or puppies in your home when they have special needs that require home care, or when the shelter is overcrowded.  PAWS will cover all expenses incurred when any of our animals are in a foster home.  Fostering is a temporary situation only.

PAWS is in constant need of material and financial support from the community.  PAWS IS CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING A FOOD CRISIS!! Donations of food from pet food companies that we used to depend on have dried up. Please help!! Name brand, good quality dog, cat, puppy, and kitten food can be dropped off at the shelter, left at Mug Shotz on Main Street in Ahoskie, or given to any PAWS member. We also need plain Tidy Cats cat litter!  Monetary donations can be made online by clicking on the PayPal icon below, given to any PAWS member, mailed to our address, or left in the numerous donation containers in businesses around Hertford County.

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.

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.