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- COMMON PUBLIC MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT PAWS
- ADOPTION: How do I adopt from PAWS?
- ADMISSION / ABANDONMENT: Can PAWS adopt/take my pet? Can I donate my pet to PAWS?
- ANIMAL CONTROL VS ANIMAL WELFARE
- ANIMAL WELFARE LAWS
- BRANCH OF PAWS: Are there other PAWS branches? Sana may PAWS dito!
- CITY POUND: Help! My dog was caught and was taken to the pound. Is this right/legal?
- CRUELTY: Hit-and-Run Case
- CRUELTY: How To Report Animal Cruelty + Calling 117
- CRUELTY: Online photos / videos / links, what can I do about these?
- DOG BITES: Help! I was bitten by a dog. What do I do?
- DONATE: How can I donate to PAWS?
- FOSTER: Temporarily keeping a rescue is one of the most important things a volunteer or concerned citizen can do. What does it take to foster?
- HOARDING AND IRRESPONSIBLE RESCUING
- HUMANE EDUCATION - BARANGAYS / SUBDIVISIONS : Does PAWS give seminars for barangays on animal care, catching of strays, responsible pet ownership?
- HUMANE EDUCATION: School Tours / Student Interviews / School Visits
- NEGLECT: My neighbor is beating their pet. My neighbor is not giving food/water/shelter.
- NEGLECT: Pet shops (Animals are malnourished, not fed, kept in small/cramped cages, etc.)
- NEIGHBOR COMPLAINING ABOUT OUR PETS
- PET SHOPS / PETS FOR SALE: Is it ok to buy from a pet shop? Is it legal to sell animals in the streets?
- REHOMING ASSISTANCE
- RESPONSIBLE PET OWNERSHIP
- RESPONSIBLE RESCUING
- SHELTER CLEANING PROGRAM
- SHELTER FEEDING PROGRAM
- SICK PET: Help, my pet is sick. What do I do?
- SPAY/NEUTER: Benefits
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STRAY-RESCUE: What To Do With Rescues and Stray Emergencies
- STRAY-RESCUE: How do I admit this poor puppy/kitten/cat/dog I saw on the streets?
- STRAYS - How to get them off the streets?
- STRAYS: Why are there stray cats and dogs?
- ACTUAL REPORT: Dog with cyst. Need assistance.
- ACTUAL REPORT: Abandoned dog
- ACTUAL REPORT: Run-over stray dog with bone sticking out
- ACTUAL REPORT: Stray dog in bad condition beside hospital
- STRAY/RESCUE: Dog/Cat Stuck In Tree/Roof/Sewer/Creek/Etc
- STRAYS/PETS OUT IN THE RAIN/TYPHOON
- STRAY CATS: Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR)
- TNR - How to do community TNR
- VET SERVICES: Does PAWS offer vet services?
- VET MALPRACTICE: My pet died at the vet, I think this is negligence, how can I complain about it?
- VOLUNTEER: How do I become a PAWS volunteer? / I'm not from Manila, how can I volunteer? / Can kids volunteer?
- WHY DO DOGS BITE?
- ABANDONED DOGS, PUPPIES, CATS, KITTENS - Can PAWS rescue them?
- ABANDONED NURSING KITTENS: Help! I found these little kittens and I don't know how to take care of them.
- BABIES AND PETS
- BEHAVIOR AND TRAINING: My dog has biting/aggressive problems, etc? What do I do?
- BOARDING: Can I board my pet at PAWS? Can my pet stay temporarily at PAWS?
- BURIAL/CREMATION: Does PAWS offer these services?
- CONDO DOES NOT ALLOW PETS
- DR. DOG : How can my dog be a part of the Dr. Dog Program?
- EXOTIC PETS: Is it legal to keep exotic animals?
- FOUND PET
- LOST PET: My pet is missing. Can you help me?
- NEW YEAR'S TIPS
- ON DOLPHINS, COCKFIGHTING, ETC.
- PAWS LOGO: Can our group use the PAWS logo for our event that will benefit PAWS? Can I use the PAWS logo for my blog?
- TRAVEL WITH PET
- PAWS Facebook Posting Guidelines
- PREPARING FOR DISASTERS
- 5 Freedoms
ARE THERE OTHER PAWS BRANCHES?
SANA MAY PAWS DITO SA _________.
Question: Are there other PAWS branches? (Sana may PAWS dito sa _______)
Answer:
PAWS is located at :
Aurora Blvd., Katipunan Valley, Loyola Heights Q.C.
Office hours: Mondays to Saturdays, 10am - 5pm, Closed to the public on Sundays and Holidays
Telefax #: 475-1688 (only during ofc hours) - THERE IS NO HOTLINE.
Email: [email protected]
There is no provincial office or other branches. Putting up another PAWS branch/shelter elsewhere entails a huge sum of money - One has to take into account available ample-sized property, construction materials, information/telecom infrastracture, personnel, veterinarian/s on duty, vehicles, utility bills, etc.
Donations and active volunteers are crucial to the effectivity of the lone PAWS shelter in QC as a non-profit animal welfare organization. PAWS only has 1 service van, a few caretakers caring for over 300+ animals, 1 fulltime shelter vet attending not only to the shelter animals but also patients at the low-cost PAWS Clinic for spay/neuter and for other medical needs, and a skeleton staff in the office composed primarily of unpaid volunteers. We would like to remind everyone that PAWS is not funded by the government and relies on donations and fundraisers to help the animals.
If you are far from the PAWS shelter in QC or do not live in Manila and you want to volunteer to help the animals, please consider the following options:
1. be a SUPPORTING MEMBER.
2. send us YOUR IDEAS/PROPOSED ACTIVITIES
3. check out your city pound or coordinate with your city vet to see if you can help provide food, water and other necessities
4. Spread awareness about SPAY/NEUTER (posters can be downloaded from the PAWS website)
Interested animal lovers (whether in Manila or in the province) who want to do their part to help the animals can also get tips by listening in to a previously recorded segment of Animal Chronicles where Li, a PAWS volunteer who also shares her time to help the Mandaluyong Animal Shelter and other animals, talks about how an "ordinary person" can make a difference (http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/16235980 - pls wait until after the President's SONA which took up half the time of Animal Chronicles' program).
** FOR INFO ON HOW TO ADOPT IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE MANILA **
Those in the province who are looking to adopt a dog/cat can visit the local pound/shelter in your city. You may just find a furry friend there who also needs a loving home. Read: How to adopt, I am not in Metro Manila
** FOR HUMANE EDUCATION INQUIRIES OUTSIDE MANILA**
PAWS offers free seminars about responsible pet ownership, animal control facility or pound management, information on animal welfare laws, etc. for barangays, including provinces (for as long as transpo can be provided for the volunteers). Please see this link for more info: Info on Seminars
** FOR INFO ON HOW TO REPORT ANIMAL CRUELTY/NEGLECT OR HOW TO RESCUE AN ANIMAL IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE MANILA **
If you are asking if there is a PAWS branch in the province because you want to be able to report animal neglect, abuse or cruelty - kindly read the PAWS FAQs (http://www.paws.org.ph/faqs.html) and read the guidelines posted about what actions one can take when they come across injured strays, rescues, pet neglect, animal abuse or cruelty. Please also read: How to get strays off the streets?
You, as an individual, can do your own bit from where you are. Educate, enlighten, inform, intervene, rescue, foster, adopt, donate, volunteer at your local pound/shelter, download & distribute flyers, lobby, blog responsibly about animal welfare issues and how others can help. Use your facebook wall, twitter, blog, etc as your responsible dissemination platform.
Enjoin others to do the same. Start in your own home, enjoin next door neighbors, then work up the street. even your barangay.
Concerned private citizens may have limited powers but are not entirely helpless. YOU CAN make a difference. It may take a lot of time and effort but when you harness your potential to improve things in your corner of this world + inspire/motivate others to act.. CHANGE HAPPENS. :)
Volunteer or not, we urge all concerned citizens to do their proactive part in animal welfare from their personal level whenever and wherever they encounter animal welfare concerns - we encourage everyone to go beyond just merely resorting to posting links or photos/reporting/emailing/calling PAWS.
When more people take the initiative to help an animal in distress, without waiting for or relying on undermanned under-resourced animal welfare groups to address the situation, more animals in need will be helped in this country. PAWS has provided ordinary citizens and pet owners with helpful info through our FAQ which we highly urge you to browse through if you want to volunteer for PAWS - please refer to http://www.paws.org.ph/faqs.html or check the side-bar topics in this weebly site.
A few examples of how one can be proactive from an ordinary citizen level:
Thank you for wanting to help the animals and God bless!
- because I want to volunteer/adopt but I am far from the PAWS shelter - lives in the province or in the south, etc
- because I want to know who to report animal abuse/cruelty to and I don't live in Manila (Sana may PAWS dito para matulungan yung mga aso at pusa)
- because people in our neighborhood need to be taught about how to properly take care of pets (Sana may PAWS dito para matuto ang mga tao dito ng tamang pag-aalaga)
- because the stray dogs and cats here in my area need help
Answer:
PAWS is located at :
Aurora Blvd., Katipunan Valley, Loyola Heights Q.C.
Office hours: Mondays to Saturdays, 10am - 5pm, Closed to the public on Sundays and Holidays
Telefax #: 475-1688 (only during ofc hours) - THERE IS NO HOTLINE.
Email: [email protected]
There is no provincial office or other branches. Putting up another PAWS branch/shelter elsewhere entails a huge sum of money - One has to take into account available ample-sized property, construction materials, information/telecom infrastracture, personnel, veterinarian/s on duty, vehicles, utility bills, etc.
Donations and active volunteers are crucial to the effectivity of the lone PAWS shelter in QC as a non-profit animal welfare organization. PAWS only has 1 service van, a few caretakers caring for over 300+ animals, 1 fulltime shelter vet attending not only to the shelter animals but also patients at the low-cost PAWS Clinic for spay/neuter and for other medical needs, and a skeleton staff in the office composed primarily of unpaid volunteers. We would like to remind everyone that PAWS is not funded by the government and relies on donations and fundraisers to help the animals.
If you are far from the PAWS shelter in QC or do not live in Manila and you want to volunteer to help the animals, please consider the following options:
1. be a SUPPORTING MEMBER.
- Supporting Members are also considered active volunteers and help us continue our work for the animals. Volunteers can do both volunteer work and be a Supporting Member for as little as P300 a month.
- This is the link for Supporting Members' buttons http://www.paws.org.ph/be-a-supporting-member.html
2. send us YOUR IDEAS/PROPOSED ACTIVITIES
- We also have volunteers located far from the shelter and outside of Metro Manila who do lobbying and all other campaigns for animal welfare in their areas. If you do not live in Manila, please let us know what your ideas are and how you think you can help as a PAWS volunteer in your province. You may email your ideas to [email protected] to coordinate activities/projects.
- For all proposed activities that would like PAWS' participation (collecting donations for the benefit of PAWS, wants PAWS to help organize, etc), please email [email protected] with the details of the project and wait for approval before including the PAWS name and logo in your event poster.
3. check out your city pound or coordinate with your city vet to see if you can help provide food, water and other necessities
4. Spread awareness about SPAY/NEUTER (posters can be downloaded from the PAWS website)
Interested animal lovers (whether in Manila or in the province) who want to do their part to help the animals can also get tips by listening in to a previously recorded segment of Animal Chronicles where Li, a PAWS volunteer who also shares her time to help the Mandaluyong Animal Shelter and other animals, talks about how an "ordinary person" can make a difference (http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/16235980 - pls wait until after the President's SONA which took up half the time of Animal Chronicles' program).
** FOR INFO ON HOW TO ADOPT IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE MANILA **
Those in the province who are looking to adopt a dog/cat can visit the local pound/shelter in your city. You may just find a furry friend there who also needs a loving home. Read: How to adopt, I am not in Metro Manila
** FOR HUMANE EDUCATION INQUIRIES OUTSIDE MANILA**
PAWS offers free seminars about responsible pet ownership, animal control facility or pound management, information on animal welfare laws, etc. for barangays, including provinces (for as long as transpo can be provided for the volunteers). Please see this link for more info: Info on Seminars
** FOR INFO ON HOW TO REPORT ANIMAL CRUELTY/NEGLECT OR HOW TO RESCUE AN ANIMAL IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE MANILA **
If you are asking if there is a PAWS branch in the province because you want to be able to report animal neglect, abuse or cruelty - kindly read the PAWS FAQs (http://www.paws.org.ph/faqs.html) and read the guidelines posted about what actions one can take when they come across injured strays, rescues, pet neglect, animal abuse or cruelty. Please also read: How to get strays off the streets?
You, as an individual, can do your own bit from where you are. Educate, enlighten, inform, intervene, rescue, foster, adopt, donate, volunteer at your local pound/shelter, download & distribute flyers, lobby, blog responsibly about animal welfare issues and how others can help. Use your facebook wall, twitter, blog, etc as your responsible dissemination platform.
Enjoin others to do the same. Start in your own home, enjoin next door neighbors, then work up the street. even your barangay.
Concerned private citizens may have limited powers but are not entirely helpless. YOU CAN make a difference. It may take a lot of time and effort but when you harness your potential to improve things in your corner of this world + inspire/motivate others to act.. CHANGE HAPPENS. :)
Volunteer or not, we urge all concerned citizens to do their proactive part in animal welfare from their personal level whenever and wherever they encounter animal welfare concerns - we encourage everyone to go beyond just merely resorting to posting links or photos/reporting/emailing/calling PAWS.
When more people take the initiative to help an animal in distress, without waiting for or relying on undermanned under-resourced animal welfare groups to address the situation, more animals in need will be helped in this country. PAWS has provided ordinary citizens and pet owners with helpful info through our FAQ which we highly urge you to browse through if you want to volunteer for PAWS - please refer to http://www.paws.org.ph/faqs.html or check the side-bar topics in this weebly site.
A few examples of how one can be proactive from an ordinary citizen level:
- Start with your own home - BE RESPONSIBLE PET OWNERS AND RESCUERS. Have all your pets or rescued animals SPAYED/NEUTERED to prevent them from multiplying and contributing to unwanted pets/strays. Note: Giving away a pet's puppies/kittens to friends and families who will also not bother to have them spayed/neutered is NOT the solution. KEEP PETS INSIDE THE HOME/PROPERTY ALL TIMES - don't allow them out on the streets to pee/poo or as play/exercise without them being on a leash. Supervise your pets at all times when in public. Pets roaming freely out on the streets who are not spayed/neutered also contribute to the stray population problem and they can also become victims of vehicular accidents or caught by the city pound. - read RPO / spay/neuter
- STOP BREEDING OR BUYING PETS. ADOPT FROM A SHELTER / ADOPT FROM YOUR CITY POUND / GIVE A STRAY, HOMELESS ANIMAL A HOME - Convince friends and family members who prefer to buy pedigreed pets to adopt a shelter aspin or puspin instead of patronizing petshops and breeders.
- If you're in Metro Manila or near Metro Manila, sign up as a PAWS FOSTER PARENT for a shelter dog or cat - living in a foster home that can temporarily care for them helps our rescues become rehabilitated and helps us help more animals. The required 8-hour per month of volunteer work is also automatically considered completed for a volunteer who fosters an animal from the shelter. - see FAQ on fostering
- Politely talk to a neighbor who neglects his pets to improve care and living conditions and offer assistance if needed (ex. if neighbor doesn't give enough food, water, proper housing, is caged or tied all day, pets have untreated illness, skin conditions, etc.) - see FAQ on pet neglect
- When you see an injured stray animal, take it to the nearest clinic for medical attention and temporarily care for it or find someone who can. PAWS offers vet assistance to rescues if the reporter offers to foster or finds a fosterer. - see FAQ on stray/rescue emergencies / abandoned dogs and fostering
- When you encounter animal cruelty, report to the police. If you choose to report to an NGO like PAWS, make sure that before you call or email, you have all the info needed and make sure you're willing to execute a witness affidavit. NOTE: We do not entertain anonymous reports. - see FAQ on reporting animal cruelty and cruelty: online photos/videos
- Familiarize yourself with PAWS' campaigns, programs, policies and FAQS found in the PAWS website.
- Be a SUPPORTING MEMBER / Donate in cash or in kind. - see FAQ on donating
- Take the initiative, educate, enlighten, encourage, intervene.
Thank you for wanting to help the animals and God bless!
RELATED LINKS
- How To Report Animal Cruelty
- What To Do When You See Pet Neglect
- What To Do For Strays/Rescue Emergencies
- Why are there strays in the first place?
- Who is responsible for strays?
- Spay/Neuter - "Kapon" Benefits
- SPAY/NEUTER FLYERS AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD AND SHARE:
For more ads and posters for distribution in veterinary clinics and barangays, click here.
For flyers about the benefits of Spay&Neuter in Filipino for distribution in barangays and communities,
click here.