About Us

PAWS PROGRAMS

♦ Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Program – also includes termination of pregnancies. PAWS offers the lowest possible prices, efficient service, veterinarians are all licensed and are located in Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties. Innoculations are discounted at the time of surgery. To take advantage of this program, please call (516) 364-PAWS. You will then be given the phone numbers to the volunteers who will send you the low-cost certificate.

♦ Humane Traps – are available on loan. Our volunteer will be happy to help give you instructions on how to trap but will not do it for you. Please call Judy at 516-872-8053 for further information or to request a trap.

♦ Meals on Wheels for pets – thanks to PAWS, the frail and elderly who may have physical and/or financial difficulties can now have meals delivered to their pets. This exciting program, in conjunction with sponsoring agencies in Nassau and Suffolk, supplies pet food free of charge to those Meals on Wheels clients who have dogs or cats. The food accompanies the regular deliveries made to their home. PAWS hopes in this way to alleviate some of the economic pressures faced by seniors and to ensure that they can continue to keep their treasured pets.

♦ Financial Assistance – to those who cannot afford even the low fees through our low-cost spay/neuter program. We also will assist individuals who need help with veterinary care and pet food. Please call Jackie at 516-785-7308 for further information or if you are in need of financial assistance.

♦ Adopt-A-Pet Day – help at the municipal shelters located in Nassau and Suffolk counties. We encourage adoption from public shelters where animals otherwise would be destroyed. Please call for additional information.

♦ PAWS To Learn Humane Education Program – available free to schools and other community groups. This program provides information on the tragic situation confronting the animals and our efforts to alleviate it. For information or to volunteer to present a program, please call Janet at (516) 364-2284. Teaching experience helpful but not imperative. We will gladly provide any training that may be needed.

♦ Educational and informative materials – are available through PAWS, at P.O. Box 861, Hicksville, New York 11802-0861. This information will help all aspects of pet ownership and care.

HELPFUL INFORMATION
PAWS has the largest spay/neuter program in the area. This program enables many families to have their pets altered who would otherwise be unable to do so for financial reasons. Consequently, this reduces the number of unwanted animals that are showing up in our already over burdened and over-populated shelters. Thousands of animals are sterilized each year through our program which greatly reduces the number being born and the number being destroyed.

PAWS operates a humane education program that is presented to thousands of students each year from pre-K through high school. The program is calls “PAWS To Learn” and is offered free to schools, libraries, scouts and other civic groups. The New York State mandated curriculum is presented at an age appropriate level to all grades. The core messages of “PAWS To Learn” are:

▪ Promote responsible pet ownership
▪ Teaches respect for all living things
▪ Encourages adoptions from local municipal shelters
▪ Stresses prevention of cruelty to animals
▪ Teaches to spay/neuter to alleviate the tragedy of pet overpopulation

PAWS To Learn promotes kindness and compassion and teaches children that animals have feelings too. The program also stresses that pets can improve the quality of our lives. In addition to slide shows and lectures, dogs and cats that have been rescued from shelters are brought into the classroom to interact with the students. This is usually the highlight of the program for the kids and it serves to reinforce the message of kindness and understand.

If you would like more information or would like to schedule a presentation for your school or civic group, please call Janet at 516-364-2284.

PAWS encourages shelter adoption of family pets. If you are interested in adopting a pet, below is the phone numbers of the shelters located in Nassau and Suffolk counties. Please remember that adopting a pet from the shelter means that you have saved a life.

Babylon – 631-643-9270
Brookhaven – 631-286-4940
Hempstead – 516-785-5220
Huntington – 631-754-8722
Islip – 631-224-5660
North Hempstead – 516-944-8220
Oyster Bay – 516-677-5784
Smithtown – 516-360-7575