What We Do

We are the sole source of care for these animals and are the resource for the local residents who are too poor to provide for the needs of their pets. We carry food, water and treats each and every night, 365 days a year, to dogs and cats who have no home but the porch of an abandoned house, and to those who own pets but have no money for their food or veterinary care.

Working with the City of Dallas
Paws in the City conducts off-site adoptions for the City of Dallas Municipal Animal Shelter and our foster animals on Saturdays. We are one of only two organizations that have this arrangement with the City shelter.

The City of Dallas has a new animal shelter location at I-30 & Westmoreland. The new shelter opened in October 2007. It is a “green” facility and is state of the art. Still, of the almost 30,000 dogs and cats that come to the city shelter each year, less than 2,000 are adopted. By taking the City of Dallas dogs and cats to off-site locations, we hope to increase their adoption rates and advertise for the city shelter, so fewer animals are killed.

Many people are unwilling to drive to the city facility or find it depressing, so Paws in the City increases adoptions by bringing the animals to the public. We also take animals into our foster program who are too ill to make it into the city adoption program but can survive with treatment.

We promote the City of Dallas shelters as much as our own organization in hopes of ending the killing due to lack of homes. We invite other rescue groups to take part in our wonderful adoption location as well. We believe all rescue groups and the city must come together to make Dallas a no kill city, and this is our ultimate goal.