What We Do . . .

Pendleton Animal Welfare Shelter (PAWS) was formed by a group of concerned Pendleton County residents in April 2005. We are working towards the goal of establishing an animal shelter to serve the needs of Pendleton County's companion animals.

Since November 2003, over 160 Pendleton County dogs and puppies (this does not include cats, whose numbers are a lot higher) needed homes because they were stray and unwanted pets. Please note: this number does not include those strays or unwanted dogs of which they were not notified; therefore, the actual numbers of needy dogs and cats could easily be many times this amount. Pendleton County needs an animal shelter!

To this end we have established PAWS as a tax-deferred nonprofit organization.. This has been the first step to making the shelter a reality.

Many other steps have been taken, too numerous to mention here; but we need your help. We have loads of work to do to make PAWS become a working animal shelter. Please contact us at (304) 358-3644 if you can help in any way. Donations and volunteers in many capacities are desperately needed. Please call if you wish to help, even if you are not sure how. We can find a way!

Cash donations (no donation is too small) are needed for:

Land purchase
Materials to build the future shelter structure. We are setting up a special fund for these donations.
Veterinary fees for partnership pet rescue groups to aid Pendleton County pets
Web site
Corporate tax and other fees
Office supplies, printing, copying, mailing costs, newspaper ads

To assist our partnership pet rescue groups, we also need:
Chain-link kennels
Non-porous dog houses
Dog crates

Please, no donations of pet food at this time. We need to complete many initial steps to become established and build our shelter prior to being able to take in homeless pets ourselves!

PAWS is a nonprofit corporation, so all donations are tax-deductible.

Thank you!

 

Officers & Board of Directors

Officers:

Acting President - Clyde Vandivort - Franklin

Second Vice-president - Joan Ashley - Franklin

Secretary & Treasurer - Carol Kosup - Franklin

Board of Directors:

Roger Ashley - Franklin

Andie Boggs - Franklin

Carol Hutchison - Sugar Grove

Mary Evelyn Neville - Sugar Grove

Cheryl Vandivort - Franklin

Ellen West - Franklin


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Pendleton Animal Welfare Shelter, Inc.
P. O. Box 804 • Franklin WV 26807 • (304) 358-3644 • E-mail

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