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!
