Lost Paws Rescue of Texas
Don’t pity a shelter animal, adopt one
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our organization focuses on reducing dog and cat homelessness by working with various municipal shelters across Texas and surrounding states to take animals from them, into our care and then tend to their health and facilitate adoptions to new homes. While in our care, there is no clock ticking with a deadline before they are euthanized and by removing them from shelters, we mitigate additional disease risk and move them to a better cage free environment while they wait for new owners.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
North Texas Rescue and Adoption
This consists of the main dog and cat extraction from shelters, breeder releases and owner surrenders which makes up about 42-60% of our adoption rates. We showcase dogs on our website, petfinder.com and at weekly adoption events thanks to our great partnership with four north Texas Petsmart locations (Southlake, Lewisville, Castle Hills, Frisco). We also partner with Willowbend Mall and Stonebriar Mall in the summer for monthly adoption events.
Disaster Shelter Assistance
This program allows us to work with shelters in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma to pull animals from their shelters before and during a time of natural disaster so that they can have space to care for owned pets who’s family has been temporarily displaced due to flooding, hurricanes, tornados or fires. This program accounts for about 3-4% of our adoption program and the majority of the cost is around paying for transport of the animals.
Sweet Seniors
We target to have 20-25% of our adoptees be at least 8 yrs old. This population struggles in shelters and is often traumatized by the loud noises and chaos of the younger energy in kennels with them or next to them and they do not come across with their best personality when potential adopters walk by. We know that these sweet older souls make incredible loving and dedicated companions and have found there is a steady demand for them at our events. With the age comes more risk of health issues so they tend to cost us a little more to bring up to healthy status so they can be adopted but it’s worth it.
Whelping and Weaning Moms and Pups
This is our newest program where we are expanding our ability to bring in pregnant females or females with new pups who were taken to the shelters. These females almost always face euthanasia if there is no one to foster them through the puppy birth and weaning stage because it’s just not a conducive environment in the shelter. These shelters, despite their best efforts, have obstacles due to the diseases that come in daily from strays and surrenders who were not vaccinated and cared for. The stress to the mother and the tiny immune systems of the puppies cannot fight back against and either they secumb to disease or are euthanized. We’ve built a new isolation center on our foster farm and our target is to grow our adoption rate by 40% by end of 2019. We know we can give this underserved population a fighting chance to have a great life. The costs of this program will raise our annual budget significantly.
Adorably Imperfect
Have you seen the cats and dogs with a limp, or with one eye or maybe they are blind or deaf or possibly they have a limb deformity? Maybe the’ve lost all their hair or have no teeth. Well we call those animals adorably imperfect and we think they are meant for adoption. This class of animals is overlooked by other rescues because bringing them to healthy state is expensive and it does take a while for a right fit adopter but overwhelmingly we receive feedback that these animals are some of the best pets their owners have ever had. As long as funds continue to come in we will seek these animals out at a shelter and find them a home. They make up about 4-5% of our adoptions.
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of animal adoptions
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
North Texas Rescue and Adoption
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Total dollars of operating costs per animal per day
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
North Texas Rescue and Adoption
Type of Metric
Context - describing the issue we work on
Direction of Success
Decreasing
Number of animals spayed and neutered
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
North Texas Rescue and Adoption
Type of Metric
Context - describing the issue we work on
Direction of Success
Increasing
Average cost per spay/neuter surgery
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
North Texas Rescue and Adoption
Type of Metric
Context - describing the issue we work on
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Number of animals provided with long term care
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Sweet Seniors
Type of Metric
Context - describing the issue we work on
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Number of repeat adopters
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
North Texas Rescue and Adoption
Type of Metric
Context - describing the issue we work on
Direction of Success
Increasing
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our aim is two-fold: 1) we want to reduce the number of adoptable dogs and cats that are euthanized each year before being given a true second chance. We are that second chance helping with socializing, health issue corrections, visibility at events and adding more time to their window of adoption opportunity 2) do everything we can for dog and cat owners, especially those who have adopted from us to keep the animal in the home with their owner by helping with temporary solutions if we can.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
1)Partnering with municipal shelters across Texas, OK and LA located in cities with no or limited rescues to ease the crowding. We pull animals weekly from these shelters and coordinate with transporters to get them to us so we can finish vetting them and get them ready for adoption events, but most important stop the clock on their fate.
2)Continuing to build on very long and successful relationship with NTX Petsmart locations and Stonebriar Centre mall to provide at least 4 adoption events each weekend.
3)We offer foster – to – adopt programs to help with acclimating the new animal to the home which has existing pets to make sure there is a smooth transition for the new and existing pets.
4)Creation of diverse adoption programs focusing on: Sweet Seniors (for dogs over 8 yrs old), Moms & Pups, General Population Pets, Disaster Relief Shelters (making temporary room for owned animals) , Adorably Imperfect (for those overlooked due to imperfections.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
With our current donation levels, we are able to support these activities for up to 750 animals per year, thanks to foster families in addition our private foster farm. With additional financial support and the completion of our new Whelping / Weaning Center we plan on expanding to approximately 350 more lives saved each year.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Starting with $150, a dog and a cat, back in 2004/ 2005 and progressing to over 6000 animals saved since then, with a zero-salary organization. which has no debt and an extremely close and reciprocal relationship with both north Texas Petsmart locations and the Stonebriar Centre Mall in Frisco, Texas for our adoption events each week is mountain of an accomplishment. For each dog or cat in our program, it was everything for them. All these years later, we still look at each animal as though they are the most important for us and we do all we can to help them find their perfect new family. We receive multiple updates each week from owners who feel like we are part of their adoption story and WE LOVE hearing about their pet children. We have a large percentage of repeat and tri-peat adopters who come back to us when they are ready for another pet. This speaks volumes of the relationships we desire to cultivate with the north Texas area pet lovers.
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Lost Paws Rescue of Texas
Board of directorsas of 09/17/2020
Yvette Garza
CEO/ Founder
Term: 2005 -
Kathy Emerson
Treasurer
Melva Butcher
Vice President
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