PAWS New England

PAWS New England Profile and History

We've grown in so many ways. We now have many veterinary partners that work with our dogs and share our passion. They offer us veterinary care at reduced costs, as much as they can. The number of transportation companies we can utilize has grown immensely as well which allows us to bring up more dogs than ever before. Our foster network-essential to our life-saving work-continues to grow. The impo rtance of foster families cannot be understated. They are vital lifelines for the dogs that come through our program. Most importantly, after Initially working solely with the Tipton County Animal Shelter, we have in the last few years begun working with several groups in Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Missouri and Louisiana. When we can, we assist with the local surrender of dogs when no other options are presented to an owner or their family, but this is not the Mission of Paws New England. Our Mission remains to rescue dogs who would otherwise be euthanized in our southern states. We greatly value the relationships we have with our southern sister rescues and shelters who, together with PAWS and many other rescue groups in New England, are making a difference. The movement of our southern partners to help the dogs in their area has grown exponentially over the last ten years as well. More and more of the people in those regions are working extremely hard in their own communities to start spay and neuter programs which can drastically reduce the influx of dogs/cats into the shelters to begin with and are reaching out to adoption partners to get their shelter dogs moved, not euthanized. This growth is undoubtedly going to continue until hopefully, one day, the statistics show we are all winning the fight. Euthanasia, often of healthy unwanted dogs, is the still number one cause of death in dogs under the age of two years. Until that statement is no longer true, PAWS New England will continue on the mission we first started with - getting loving, deserving adoptable dogs into the homes of loving, deserving families who ...