PAWS Shelter of Central Texas

PAWS Shelter and Humane Societies goal is serve Central Texas in becoming a "No-Kill" community. Our goal is to incrementally decrease euthanasia at area municipal shelters through actively transferring pets and increasing our adoption rates by driving high volume adoptions. We are currently building a new facility in Dripping Springs which will directly impact the kill rates in Hays County. With this new facility we can double our capacity within 60 days.

We also are striving to develop new programs that decrease local shelter intake by keeping pets in homes and out of shelters, increasing retention rates of our adoptive pets and helping with the re-uniting of lost pets. We have implemented our PAW Up program to help decrease owner surrender and shelter returns. We have also shared and support this program through the San Marcos Animal Shelter.

We have a cell dog program at the Kyle Correctional facility that is a perfect example of increasing the human-animal bond. The offenders take on a dog for 10 weeks to train it and better prepare it for adoption. The dogs live in the cell with the offenders and complete weekly homework assignments and practice training techniques to prepare their dog for graduation. They also complete training for the Canine Good Citizen American Kennel Club association which prepares them for the official testing with their new adopters.

We have implemented several programs to help with pet retention in homes and are developing others to help with accidental litters and pet identification.

We have started conducting community micro-chipping events to increase the number of lost pets being able to be re-united with their families immediately instead of flooding the current shelter system.

Opening the new shelter facility by Feb 2018.

Eventually offering low cost- spay and neutering through on on site surgery center that will be located in our new facility.

We have received grant funding from the Best Friend's Network and Petco Foundation to begin implementing our current programming. Best Friend's Network has been an active partner with us in helping fund and develop new programs to increase lives saved. We are in partnership with the Hays County municipal animal shelter, Kyle Correctional Facility and local neighborhood committees to continue/begin these programs.

Grant funding is continually been searched out to by our ED and our Volunteer coordinator to increase funding to implement new life saving programs.

We have increased our intake from the county shelter by 20% since June 2018, taking in over 225 animals. Our goal is to take in 800 animals between July 2018 thru June 2019. This would in turn reflect an decrease in municipal agencies euthanasia. We have also decreased the county animal intakes through our PAW Up program by another 35 dogs since Sept 2018.

We have already increased our intake of those most at risk of euthanasia, under-age kittens and puppies in 2018 by 200% by increasing our foster program to house more kittens and puppies. We have grow our foster program from 85 to over 200 foster families since 2017.