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Animal Welfare Alliance of Southeast Missouri (Poplar Bluff)


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The Animal Welfare Alliance (AWA)
of Southeast Missouri is registered with state and federal authorities as a nonprofit organization under Section 501 (c) (3) of the U.S. tax code. The purpose of the Poplar Bluff-based organization is to foster a spirit of cooperation among all public and private animal care organizations and agencies in the area, to encourage and support the adoption, neutering and spaying of pets and to provide shelter for abandoned animals.

Our Mission

The Animal Welfare Alliance (AWA) of Southeast Missouri is a non-profit and no-kill organization. We work with the City of Poplar Bluff Animal Shelter to help provide humane shelter and animal care for neglected animals. We promote animal care education so the lives of pets can have a quality of life. We strive to find permanent and foster homes for adoptable stray, unwanted, abused and neglected pets.


Mailing Address:
PO Box 647,
Poplar Bluff, MO 63902

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Feral Cat TNR Program
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High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter
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Comprehensive Adoption Programs
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Medical and Behavior Programs
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Volunteers
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Proactive Redemptions
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A Compassionate Director
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1. Feral Cat TNR Program

Many communities are embracing Trap, Neuter, Release programs (TNR) to improve animal welfare, reduce death rates, and meet obligations to public welfare.


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2. High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter

Low cost, high volume spay/neuter will quickly lead to fewer animals entering the shelter system, allowing more resources to be allocated toward saving lives.


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3. Rescue Groups

An adoption or transfer to a rescue group frees up scarce cage and kennel space, reduces expenses for feeding, cleaning, killing, and improves a community's rate of lifesaving. In an environment of millions of dogs and cats killed in shelters annually, rare is the circumstance in which a rescue group should be denied an animal.


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4. Foster Care

Volunteer foster care is crucial to No Kill. Without it, saving lives is compromised. It is a low cost, and often no cost, way of increasing a shelter's capacity, improving public relations, increasing a shelter's public image, rehabilitating sick and injured or behaviorally challenged animals, and saving lives.


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5. Comprehensive Adoption Programs

Adoptions are vital to an agency's lifesaving mission. The quantity and quality of shelter adoptions is in shelter management's hands, making lifesaving a direct function of shelter policies and practice. In fact, studies show people get their animals from shelters only 20% of the time. If shelters better promoted their animals and had adoption programs responsive to the needs of the community, including public access hours for working people, offsite adoptions, adoption incentives, and effective marketing, they could increase the number of homes available and replace killing with adoptions. Contrary to conventional wisdom, shelters can adopt their way out of killing.


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6. Pet Retention

While some of the reasons animals are surrendered to shelters are unavoidable, others can be prevented-but only if shelters are willing to work with people to help them solve their problems. Saving animals requires communities to develop innovative strategies for keeping people and their companion animals together. And the more a community sees its shelters as a place to turn for advice and assistance, the easier this job will be.


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7. Medical and Behavior Programs

In order to meet its commitment to a lifesaving guarantee for all savable animals, shelters need to keep animals happy and healthy and keep animals moving through the system. To do this, shelters must put in place comprehensive vaccination, handling, cleaning, socialization, and care policies before animals get sick and rehabilitative efforts for those who come in sick, injured, unweaned, or traumatized.


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8. Public Relations/Community Involvement

Increasing adoptions, maximizing donations, recruiting volunteers and partnering with community agencies comes down to one thing: increasing the shelter's exposure. And that means consistent marketing and public relations. Public relations and marketing are the foundation of all a shelter's activities and their success. To do all these things well, the shelter must be in the public eye.


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9. Volunteers

Volunteers are a dedicated "army of compassion" and the backbone of a successful No Kill effort. There is never enough staff, never enough dollars to hire more staff, and always more needs than paid human resources. That is where volunteers come in and make the difference between success and failure and, for the animals, life and death.


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10. Proactive Redemptions

One of the most overlooked areas for reducing killing in animal control shelters are lost animal reclaims. Sadly, besides having pet owners fill out a lost pet report, very little effort is made in this area of shelter operations. This is unfortunate because doing so-primarily shifting from passive to a more proactive approach-has proven to have a significant impact on lifesaving and allow shelters to return a large percentage of lost animals to their families.


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11. A Compassionate Director

The final element of the No Kill equation is the most important of all, without which all other elements are thwarted-a hard working, compassionate animal control or shelter director not content to regurgitate tired cliches or hide behind the myth of "too many animals, not enough homes." Unfortunately, this one is also oftentimes the hardest one to demand and find.


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FOUND Male heeler/cattle mix, red, wandering in Lincoln estates subdivision. VERY friendly. Has a blue collar with bones embodied. No tags, emaciated, looks like it was abandoned a while ago, hair matted, ticks and fleas. We provided water and food. Could not take him into my home as I have pets that I did not want to expose. Called animal control, they can't help until tomorrow.
posted by Valerie Harrison, on 2024-08-02 02:25:51
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Do you happen to know anyone in the Piedmont area that can help a momma dog and her pups. She’s wondered to a man’s place and had her puppies. He can’t afford to take care of them and if he can’t find someone to take them then he said he will have to resort to other measures. He doesn’t want kill them but he can’t keep them. Can anyone put me in touch with someone will to help these babies
posted by [email protected], on 2022-11-04 11:11:33
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Hello, Are you in need of volunteers for your TNR program?
posted by Brittney Glover, on 2022-05-14 01:37:14
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Lost havenese on cr 553. Whitish grey. Name Chewy. 9073479256 Thanks again!
posted by Jerry Blemke, on 2022-01-04 15:46:48
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Monday evening my 8 lb Havenese chased a deer into the woods and has not returned. CR 553 just 2 miles up hwy T. Please keep an eye out. Thanks. Phone 9073479256
posted by Jerry Blemke, on 2022-01-04 15:43:39
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My name is Mindy pearl (5737183470) Poplar bluff mo) My kitten got out a few days ago, in the middle of the night when it was pouring down rain. Just tonight my friend that lives around the corner brought him home so he was gone for a total of 3 nights. I'm afraid he's been hit by a car. He cant walk and I can tell that his back left hip looks out of place, he's hurting & I feel awful- I'm hysterical. I'm behind on my rent as it is. I have literally $0 for a vet visit. Is it possible to ask for help with this kind of emergency? Or do u know of another group for this? I do not want to wake him for pics at this time... He's resting, but he sleeps a bit fitfully.
posted by Mindy Pearl, on 2020-10-30 06:03:25
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Hello mindy pearl, i wish you could help me with these cats, four of them. There rightfull owner just took off and i cant reach her, i know cats are your thing, they need love and attention, just like there dad does, we miss you mindy come home.
posted by [email protected], on 2021-10-13 12:26:35
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My daughter will be in Poplar Bluff this week & she needs your physical address so she can drop off our female cat with 5 kittens. My husband is very ill & I can no longer care for them by myself. Can you please help us out?
posted by jlmkatie1363, on 2018-05-13 03:40:44
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Here's the phone number listed on line for them. (573) 840-0664
posted by Tina Duncan, on 2019-11-22 19:03:12
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I guess you aren't a very good business since you don't respond to questions put to you for animals in need.
posted by jlmkatie1363, on 2018-05-15 22:46:43
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