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The Portneuf Animal Welfare Society, established in 2004, has been administering animal rescue services across Bannock, Bingham and Power counties for over 8 years. Whether providing food, shelter, or medical care for abandoned and neglected cats and dogs, rescuing livestock from abusive owners, or helping to limit the profusion of feral colonies, the 60 staff and volunteers of PAWS dedicate their collective time and energy to promote the health, safety and welfare of the areas large and small animals in need.

PAWS is a non-profit organization depending entirely upon donations raised through private contributions and an annual yard sale of donated items. Pet food costs alone exceed $400/month with an additional $1,000/month in veterinary expenditures, pharmaceuticals and boarding.

Annual Fund Raising Yard Sale!
June 2nd at the Bannock County Fairgrounds
Donations Gladly Accepted
Call 339-8137

Young Benefactors Recognize PAWS

Each month Blackfoot’s Modern Women’s Service Organization selects a project to benefit various local community groups. This past February the Organization decided to have local first graders determine the recipient of the month. The children chose to donate their services toward helping rescued animals and pets.

Animal Health Clinic of Blackfoot was contacted and suggested the Pocatello Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) as the recipient. The children, along with members of the Organization, were invited to the Health Clinic to tour the facility, meet some of the veterinary staff and spend a little time with a few recovering ‘patients’. They were met there by two representatives of PAWS who accepted the generous donation of two large bags of dog food and two of cat food to help feed some of the rescue colonies supported by PAWS. The PAWS representatives explained their role in helping to manage and control feral and abandoned animal populations and the benefits of spaying and neutering pets to avoid the hardships of overpopulation.

The staff of Paws was proud to be a part of the Modern Women’s Service Organization project and greatly appreciate the thoughtful efforts of their young benefactors knowing the lessons learned that day would be rewarded in future practice.

2011

It Was A Very Good Year

The entire staff and volunteers at PAWS are proud of all our efforts and accomplishments over the past 12 months. Through triumph and hardship, in 2011 some of our happy endings included establishing and managing additional safe refuge for several area feral cat colonies, purchasing, relocating and helping to restore dignity to a good number of neglected and abused horses, donkeys and livestock left starving and mistreated, ultimately helping to close two highly publicized animal abuse cases festering for years in local courts, and liberating a spuriously accused dog incarcerated in the local shelter for over 2 years. With the continuing support of our generous patrons, advocates and volunteers, PAWS looks forward to providing continuing rescue services and assistance in pursuit our goals, mission and vision in 2012.

Our winter feeding program effectively distributed over 20 tons of hay to sites in Bannock and Caribou counties, helping to feed more than 60 horses, donkeys, sheep and cattle.

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The protracted Haggard and Lake animal abuse trials were finally resolved in 2011 with the convictions of the accused. PAWS invested countless hours of investigation and testimony and thousands of dollars in feed and medical services for the abused and neglected horses and livestock. Our efforts were instrumental in putting an end to these wholesale abuses and mistreatment of entire herds of livestock.

For the third successive summer our kitten fostering and adoption placement program yielded stellar results. Our nurseries provided happy, healthy and frisky kittens to lucky families as distant as Boise and Salt Lake City. With the cooperation of PetCo and assistance from the Idaho State Journal, KPVI, KIDK, and KIFI, over 25 adorable kittens embarked on new adventures of hope, love and companionship. In addition, several sterile and healthy feral colonies were established both within the city and outside of Pocatello to help control further spread of undesirable wild colonies.

PAWS donations helped us to provide more than 8000lbs. of pet food, 1300 lbs of cat litter and over $17,000 of medical supplies and services to volunteers and individuals involved in our animal rescue efforts. Our spay/neuter program alone provided over 200 successful surgeries, helping to control the overall pet population. In addition, two of our feral friends required oral surgeries helping them to comfortably extend their curiosities and mischief, a lost dog was found with a broken leg which we repaired then reunited with its grateful owner, and we provided financial assistance for dozens of emergency vet calls assuring the good health and extending the lives and fortunes of a variety of large and small animals across the region.

A story in the Idaho State Journal over the holidays covered one of our rescues which not only involved a dog, but his debilitated and homeless owner as well.

It may have taken over 1 year and despite a number of legal roadblocks, PAWS succeeded in purchasing a pair of adopted wild horses, who’d been penned up, underfed and maltreated. The pair was doctored, manicured, then set out to pasture in comfortable surroundings outside of town

And let us not forget the 2 year saga of Balou, the family dog incarcerated at the local shelter and destined to be euthanized. Our tireless efforts helped to finally vindicate and relocate this affable pet to a new life and home in the balmy Southwest.

JUST IN !!

You can now donate to PAWS through your UNITED WAY contributions. Simply designate PAWS as one of your preferred UNITED WAY charities and that portion of your pledge will be automatically deposited with us , quick, easy and convenient.

A MEMO FROM THE STAFF

As cute and irresisable as these playful companions are,there remain literally hundreds of unneutered feral and domestic cats and dogs in our area alone and those numbers are continually on the rise.PAWS volunteers have taken great pleasure in fostering and placing young kittens, cats and dogs but the reality remains, for every one successfully placed adoption, countless others languish in hopeless despair.Starvation, disease and exposure are cruel bedfellows.Please patronize our shelters and animal welfare organizations by adopting locally and by having your pet spayed or neutered. Enrich your life. Call to adopt a pet today.