Help animal-lovers Paul Zimmerman and Bob Donovan reach their goal of raising $10,000 in their ninth annual Paddle for PAWS. These brave men will swim across Puget Sound, from Vashon Island to West Seattle, to raise awareness of our work and collect donations in support of the animals in our care. Learn how you can support their efforts.

Take a look at some of the cats and dogs available for adoption at PAWS.

Izzy Blondie

Read about this week's animals. Each week during the school year students at Spruce Elementary write these profiles to help the companion animals at PAWS find new, loving homes.

Host a Gift Drive for Animals!

You can help fill PAWS’ cupboards with food and supplies by hosting a donation drive for friends, neighbors and co-workers. Find out how to get started today.

Action for animals needed in King County

As a founding member of the King County Council Animal Care and Control Advisory Committee, which the Council reactivated last summer, PAWS is acutely aware of the many challenges of the current sheltering system in King County, where lack of resources results in sub-standard care for many thousands of animals each year.

Serving on the Advisory Committee, in 2007 PAWS helped craft the 47 detailed recommendations to improve King County’s shelters, each of which are still urgently needed to improve the daily living conditions for animals in King County’s care, as well as supporting the longer-term goal of ensuring that as many animals as possible have the opportunity to find safe, loving permanent homes. The King County Council’s goal to reduce euthanasia in its shelters system is an important step, but before this can happen, the County must first focus on improving the daily living conditions and medical care for homeless and stray animals in its Kent and Bellevue shelters, so that their basic needs are met.

And yet providing a true, humane, community-wide safety net for the homeless and stray animals in King County is a far broader issue, and cannot be addressed solely through improving shelter conditions. PAWS urges King County to work closely with their animal sheltering partners—both public agencies and not-for-profit rescues and sheltering groups—to build a fail-safe system that protects all the animals in its care.

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