New Mexico

DPS was started 30 plus years ago by Jeannie Cornelius. At one time she had 49 dogs in her care. Through a mutual friend I become involved and took on the President role when we moved here two years ago. We have both been life long animal lovers and feel a soul connection to them all. I worked with the Austin Humane Society as a dog volunteer (I'm allergic to cats but have 3) prior to moving.

Marisa Kim Optometrist Zuni IHS. Relocating dogs to better areas where chance of adoption and better lives is possible. Vaccinating and providing access for community members to spay neuter clinics. Foster care. Vet care and humane education.

PACA / AAR, incorporated in 1973, is the oldest no-kill animal rescue group in New Mexico. Our main focus is abandoned, abused cats and dogs. We provide all needed medical care, spay/neuter, as well as any major surgery required. We also provide a safe haven until an adoptive home is found. Our foster care program places animals in a home environment allowing us the opportunity to assess their personalities and specific needs. This process gives us the ability to place the animal in the “right” adoptive home by matching the needs of the adoptive person or family with the most suitable animal available.

Who We Are The Santa Fe Animal Shelter is the largest animal shelter and care facility in northern New Mexico. We serve more than 10,000 lost, stray, abandoned or injured animals each year. As a private, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization, we receive nearly all of our funding through private donors in our community and beyond. The Shelter contracts with the City and County of Santa Fe to care for homeless and stray animals, but also serves every animal brought through our front doors from any other source. We work to reunite people with their lost animal companions, and re-home those animals that have gone unclaimed into new homes through our adoption program. Low- and no-cost spay/neuter programs address the overpopulation problems that our community faces. Humane education programs in our local schools teach children to respect and care for all living creatures. Partnered with our community, we work for change in the lives of our companion animals and to end the suffering of all animals. A Brief History On July 18, 2005, the Santa Fe Animal Shelter left its home of 66 years—the only home the organization had ever known—and moved to our new, two-building, 100-acre campus. We left a structure that had helped us serve thousands upon thousands of animals for the better part of seven decades. And while that home held so much history and love, the needs of our community meant we needed more. Thanks to a partnership with the City of Santa Fe and the Bureau of Land management, we moved to a parcel of land with hiking trails, room to walk dogs, and amazing sunsets. After a multi-year fundraising drive, the first phase was completed: two beautiful new buildings in which we can provide a higher level of care to the animals in our community. The Lapides Adoption Center serves healthy, adoptable animals. Every detail of the new Shelter is designed for the comfort and health of the animals. From the tiled banco in each dog kennel to the spacious, cozy, cat colony rooms; from the radiant floor heating for our four-footed visitors to “cuddle” rooms where potential adopters can visit with an animal in an area designed to simulate a home environment. The second building, the Robin Sommers Animal Receiving & Care Center, allows us much more room to house stray and abandoned animals as we care for them during their stay with us. High-tech ventilation systems allow us to better control the spread of contagious diseases and to safely treat the animals in our care much more effectively. A third building, The Clare Eddy Thaw Hospital, was completed in the summer of 2013 and proudly opened to further serve the needs of the community. We welcome you to visit the new haven we are providing to the animals of our community. Two five-acre dog parks are available so that the Shelter will not just be a place to adopt an animal or find a missing one, but one to visit over and over again. We have built this Shelter for you, our community, to use as a resource and a place to find joy with the animals. The staff of the Santa Fe Animal Shelter brings years of collective experience in animal welfare and related fields to the Shelter. For more information about the Shelter, please contact the appropriate person below.

we are filling the 'missing link' for abandoned animals in our area. We are a small rural community surrounded by poverty-stricken towns, campgrounds, and reservations where many animals are not neutered/spayed, dumped, abandoned, and neglected. We rehab them, spay/neuter them, get veterinary care for them, socialize, and find forever homes for these great affectionate rescue pets.

Pet-a-Bulls was formed to address the homeless pet crisis in the State of New Mexico in which "bully breed" dogs comprise a minimum of 40% of the total dogs entering the State's shelters while very few - roughly 10% or less - leave the shelter through adoption to appropriate family homes. Our goal is to lead by example through our training and then placement of ready made family pets into carefully matched, appropriate forever homes that treasure these pets as highly valued family members and an integral part of their human pack. Our hope is that by demonstrating how adoptable these breeds truly are to the States many shelters and thus to the public in general, a far greater increase in adoptions of these dogs will be initiated directly from the shelters themselves. While our primary focus is placed on American Staffordshire Terriers, American Pit Bull Terriers, Staffordshire Bull Terriers, Bull Terriers, American Bulldogs, the many and various “Mastiff” breeds and other “bully breeds” in general, we also accept other canine breeds as space and time allow to utilize the internet, mobile adoptions, PetSmart adoption events, and other adoption venues to ultimately place these pet into loving, permanent homes.

City of Albuquerque Department responsible for care of stray and surrendered adoptable animals until adopted.

Paws and Claws Humane Society, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) corporation who is dedicated to helping rescuing dogs and cats in Artesia, NM and reducing the problem of pet overpopulation by providing a spay/neuter program.

Bro & Tracy Animal Welfare, Inc., incorporated as 501(c)(3) January 2000. Much of our work is photographing at different shelters & publishing a website. We do some fostering.