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P.A.W.S. PURPOSES: To provide interim shelter for stray and unwanted Pendleton County companion animals, To provide for surgical sterilization of all sheltered animals to be adopted prior to adoption, per WV law; and to place homeless, stray and unwanted animals in permanent and loving homes or with other shelters or in foster care until such time that adoption becomes possible. To reduce the number of dogs and cats being born through spay and neuter assistance and pet-owner education programs. To provide current and future pet owners with the information needed to provide a loving home and care for a pet. To promote public understanding and knowledge of humane care of all animals in Pendleton County and to constantly encourage humane treatment of the same. To notify law enforcement officials of and to work in partnership with law enforcement officials in cruelty cases. Did you know? In seven years one cat can spawn 420,000 offspring! Each cat has three litters per year, with approximately four to six kittens per litter. Each one of those kittens has three litters of four to six kittens and so on, with each generation multiplying exponentially. In six years one dog can spawn 67,000 dogs! Each dog has two litters per year, with six to ten puppies per litter. Each puppy grows up and, just like cats, the numbers add up! These statistics are from the National Humane Society. |
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1)
July 05: Unwanted Dalmatian mix litter transported to Dal
Rescue in PA, all adopted. Photo of Chip (#10) is one of
the pups at one year of age.
5)
May 06: Sport taken into care by PAWS and is thriving!
7)
April 06: Brina was abandoned by her former owner, along
with many other pets, when they were evicted and moved their
trailer out and left their pets behind to die. PAWS took
eight pets into care from this case, including Brina and
her three tiny kittens. Brina and her kittens went to a
cat rescue in VA and all were adopted by Aug. 06.
11)
Sept. 06: Cujo abandoned on Spruce Knob, PAWS took into
care and after the mandatory waiting period, he and companion
Delilah were transported to a pet adoption program in VA.
12)
June 06: Daisy was put out of her house by her former owners
who stopped feeding her. Daisy became very ill from starvation
and pneumonia, but PAWS took her into care and provided
her with all her veterinary care. She is thriving!
13)
Sept. 06: Delilah also abandoned with Cujo on Spruce Knob,
probably because she was in her heat cycle. Went to a VA
pet adoption program Sept. 06.
14)
June 05: Gypsy had a litter before she was one year old,
and had been tied out on a heavy chain all the prior winter,
even though she is a small dog at only 25 lbs. Her former
owners had put her out because they said as a puppy, she
chewed up the houseplants. Gypsy and pups went to a pet
adoption program. All were adopted.
15)
April 06: Hazel, a stray along with another cat Layla, were
taken into care by PAWS, spayed and given all vet care and
have subsequently both been adopted through a cat adoption
program.
16)
April 06: Judy was a dog abandoned by the tenants who left
their pets behind when they moved their trailer out. She
and her pup Fergie (r.) were taken into care by PAWS and
later went to a pet adoption program in MD. Both have been
adopted.
17)
Aug. 05: A mama cat and three kittens were found abandoned
on an isolated mountain. This longhair kitten was named
James and was one of the three kittens and all went to a
cat adoption program in NJ and all were adopted.
18)
Feb. 06: This feral nameless stray female cat had had several
litters but was too wild to be caught by the people who
were feeding her. PAWS used a humane trap to capture her
and transport her to a cat rescue in VA. She has been spayed
and adopted as a barn cat.
19)
Aug. 06: Pywacket was one of three remaining kittens after
a dog killed his two littermates and mother when he was
only two weeks old. The three kittens were raised, neutered
when old enough and in September went to a cat adoption
program and all were adopted.
20)
Sept. 06: Sam was being fed by kind workers at a convenience
store for a month. No one knew where he came from. PAWS
took him into care and transported him to an adoption program
after his 5-day waiting period (mandatory by state law for
strays to give owners a chance to claim them) was up.
21)
May 06: Seamus was abandoned at a park and waited for his
former owners to come back for weeks, then finally hunger
drove him to wander up a mountain road until he found a
kind family who fed him and called PAWS. PAWS immediately
took Seamus into care, got him his vet care, and he later
went to a Collie Rescue program in Ohio.
22)
Oct. 06: Timmy was one of four kittens abandoned on a mountain
that would not leave the road they were abandoned on. They
did not know where to go after they were abandoned. Afraid
they would be run over by a car, a PAWS volunteer took them
into care and after veterinary care, all four went to a
pet adoption program in NJ.
23)
Jan 06: Tinkerbelle was young dog who had a litter of pups
in November. However, this large dog family of 12 pups had
very little chance of survival with inadequate nourishment
outside in the WV winter, so most perished by the time PAWS
heard about them. In January, when PAWS heard of this case,
they were immediately taken into care as a the weather was
due to turn sharply colder that night. Tinkerbelle and her
four remaining pups very quickly received the vet care and
TLC they so badly needed. Tinkerbelle had been chained in
the shed you see in the photo all her short life.
24)
Tinkerbelle in her new home in Washington, DC.
25)
Jan 06: Trevor was abandoned on a farm and the very kind
farmers fed him but they could not let him stay since their
own dogs attacked Trevor repeatedly, so PAWS took Trevor
into care quickly to avoid further injury. Australian Shepherd
Rescue took Trevor for adoption.
26)
Trevor in his new home in March 06 with his new dog friend.
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Pendleton Animal Welfare Shelter, Inc. |