PROGRESSIVE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
PAWS helps cats, dogs and wild animals go home and thrive – whether home is the family room or the forest. We do this by rehabilitating orphaned and injured wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating the community to inspire compassionate action for animals. Since 1967, PAWS has united more than 130,000 cats and dogs with loving families, cared for more than 140,000 sick, injured and orphaned wild animals, and made the world a better place for countless others through outreach, education and advocacy.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
PAWS Companion Animal Services
Companion animals enrich the lives of countless Pacific Northwest residents, but overpopulation, abuse, and neglect are widespread problems. PAWS places more than 3,700 cats and dogs each year in loving, responsible homes, provides training and education to strengthen the human/animal bond and works to end animal cruelty and overpopulation. We do this through the operation of PAWS Companion Animal Shelter in Lynnwood, PAWS Cat City, our satellite adoption facility in Seattle, a low-cost spay and neuter clinic for low-income members of our community, as well as through education and training, and providing a wealth of animal behavior resources.
PAWS Wildlife Center
As development encroaches on wildlife habitat, PAWS' internationally recognized wildlife program rehabilitates sick, injured, and orphaned animals, returns them to the wild, and educates people about peaceful coexistence with wildlife.
Patients include songbirds, waterfowl, raptors, herons, woodpeckers, coyotes, black bears, and more. Animals are brought to our wildlife center for many different reasons: habitat destruction, cat and dog attacks, collisions with cars, poisoning, and gunshot wounds are just a few of the tragedies that necessitate our intervention. Most of the impacts on these animals have been directly or indirectly caused by humans. Our main goal of treating wild animals is for them to be strong enough to return to the wild where they belong.
In addition to rehabilitation, PAWS is committed to helping people find humane solutions to conflicts involving wild animals and educating people about behavior and conservation.
PAWS Humane Education Program
PAWS Humane Education Program offers unique learning opportunities that empower people of all ages to demonstrate compassion and respect for animals in their daily lives. PAWS' suite of humane education programs annually provides more than 5,000 youth an opportunity to better understand animals in their homes, neighborhoods and the wider world while providing practical tools to make a difference for animals. PAWS Community Outreach Program extends our reach to a broader audience of adults through humane conflict resolution, educational campaigns, citizen awareness through social media, and outreach at community festivals.
Kids Who Care is our core, 6-week course reaching third through fifth graders. This popular classroom program provides the widest range of activities and information of all of our education programs and is offered throughout the school year.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of animals rehabilitated
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
PAWS Wildlife Center
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The number of animals admitted to the PAWS Wildlife Center during the year.
Number of animal adoptions
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
PAWS Companion Animal Services
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
PAWS envisions a world where all people recognize the intrinsic value of animals and consistently make choices that demonstrate compassion and respect.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
By facilitating dog and cat adoptions at our Companion Animal Shelter in Lynnwood and Cat City in Seattle, we help thousands of homeless animals find families every year. And through our low-cost Spay/Neuter program, we greatly reduce the number of unplanned litters born in our community.
PAWS Wildlife Center operates an emergency hospital and specialized recovery facilities designed to rehabilitate sick, injured and orphaned wildlife, restore them to full health, and return them as functioning members of their wild population.
PAWS provides experiential learning to inspire youth and adults to take compassionate action for animals. Using research-based practices, PAWS Education Programs consistently show evidence of impact on attitude and behavior changes – helping create a brighter future for animals, the people whose lives they enrich, and the world we all share.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
PAWS companion animal staff and volunteers are highly respected in the animal welfare community. Students and veterinary professionals from near and far come to PAWS to receive training and education in shelter medicine, and gain insight into issues that impact animals such as pet overpopulation, cruelty, and neglect.
PAWS Wildlife Center is the only wildlife rehabilitation center in Washington State equipped with immediate and continual veterinary expertise and services, all in-house, 365 days a year. We employ a highly qualified veterinary and rehabilitation team to accomplish our life-saving work. As needed, we also call upon local board certified veterinarians and state biologists. Today PAWS Wildlife Center is internationally known for our training and education programs and high quality, expert animal care.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Animals will always need a place of refuge and rehabilitation. We will be here indefinitely.
PAWS is in the process of constructing a new Wildlife Rehabilitation Hospital in Snohomish. This new building will dramatically enhance our ability to care for sick, orphaned, and injured wildlife with spacious, modernized facilities for optimal treatment and surgical operations - leading to even better outcomes for animals in our care. As the new hospital is constructed, we will be raising funds for future phases of work. Those include spacious outdoor wildlife enclosures, an aquatic complex serving a myriad of aquatic species, and additional dedicated wildlife rehabilitation space and facilities to accommodate our team of expert staff, interns, and volunteers that care for our patients.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
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