Paws In The City is an all-volunteer nonprofit 501(c) 3 organization committed to ending the abuse, neglect and overpopulation of Dallas area dogs and cats. Our goal is that every adoptable dog and cat get a loving home. By providing money for spay/neuter and increasing the adoption rate, we take the first step in making Dallas a no kill city.
Paws In The City has spent many years rescuing and healing the abused, neglected and abandoned dogs and cats of our community. We have placed dogs and cats into our foster homes and then into adoptive homes. We also conduct offsite adoptions for the City of Dallas municipal animal shelter because they kill almost 30,000 animals..add the metroplex and it climbs to 200,000. Every dollar raised goes to foster, adoption, medical and spay/neuter programs.

Paw In The City’s Accomplishments:

**	Reducing the number of animals killed at the City of Dallas Animal Shelter by having them attend our offsite adoption events along with our foster animals AND pulling animals on death row from that city shelter.
**	Increasing the number of animals adopted every year
**	Offering the public a Guest Dog Program. We help citizens who find strays or need to re-home a pet by posting them on our website and inviting them to attend our adoption
**	Providing a Medical Assistance Fund which offers the public help with expensive surgeries or treatments that they could not afford on their own
**	Consistently raising substantial funds at the Top Hat & Tails fundraiser every year and giving a portion of them to free spay/neuter programs such as Metoroplex Animal Coalition and education programs such as Companions for Life which teaches responsible pet ownership
**	Having the most exciting and unique special event fundraisers in town (4-5 events a year)
**	Taking in dogs and cats that other organizations overlook due to illness, age or breed. For example, treating heartworm positive dogs who might otherwise have been killed at the city shelter because they would not be put in their adoption program or taking in older dogs or cats or even pure bred pits with good personalities and mixed breeds of all sizes.
**	Creating a training program for our dogs so that no dog is in our program due to behavioral issues for very long or sits in a kennel without a foster home. We are committed to their emotional and mental well being as well as their physical needs

Paws In The City’s ADOPTION EVENTS are held either at Pet Supplies Plus on Mockingbird and at World Market in North Dallas by the Galleria every Saturday from 11am-4pm. We also attend numerous special events around the metroplex. See our website for locations and times

Working with other Organizations

Educating people of the importance of spaying/neutering their pets is critical to our mission. We work closely with and promote 2 other organizations whose focus is on education and spay/neuter. The Metroplex Animal Coalition provides free spay/neuter vouchers to residents who cannot afford to have their animals altered and Companions for Life, offers educational programs and materials to Dallas Animal Services and to the community.

Board Members:

• Becky Haisma
• John Harper
• Tara Harper
• Alan Lintel
• Martha Powell
• Paula Smith

Advisory Board:

• Preston Pearson - Dallas Cowboy Great; Member-Dallas Animal Shelter Commission
• Elaine Munch - President-Metroplex Animal Coalition; past Animal Shelter Commissioner
• Arthur Benjamin - Advisory Board Member-Best Friends Animal Sanctuary
• Tina Fairbanks - past Fundraising Chair-SPCA San Francisco
• Rebecca Poling - Companions for Life President and member Dallas Animal Shelter Commissioner
• Holly Forsythe - Co owner of Sambuca Restaurants, Advisory board of Operation Kindness, host of numerous animal related fundraisers