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Animal Welfare Association


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The AWA in Voorhees is a no-kill, non-profit, 501(c)3 organization providing shelter for orphaned animals, low-cost spay and neuter services, pet assisted therapy and humane education for the community since 1948. For more than fifty years, AWA has been committed to the prevention and eradication of animal suffering. Each year, more than 9,500 animals receive care through AWA programs.shelter caring for

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Feral Cat TNR Program
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High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter
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Rescue Groups
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Foster Care
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Comprehensive Adoption Programs
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Pet Retention
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Medical and Behavior Programs
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Public Relations/Community Involvement
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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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posted by Dayna Galati, on 2021-01-01 00:01:24
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Hi!! I am in need of finding a home for my 3 year old. She is a pit/lab mix. She is a good dog!! But do to my work schedule and living I can no longer keep her! Please if anyone call help me out. Please contact me.. ASAP!!
posted by ToniMarieCross, on 2016-07-15 07:42:58
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posted by Matthew Mccllellan, on 2020-09-26 20:53:09
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I have 6 cats 4 1year olds and 2 3year old female cat thats about to have thier babies and i live in a apartment where we can't have any animals so I'm trying to fine them a loving home for please help me i don't drive so it's hard for me to take them to a shelter i call some places but they don't come out to get them please help me.
posted by [email protected], on 2020-03-13 14:23:04
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I have two, two year old cats...who are brothers..one is a tuxedo cat...black and white. The other is a gray tiger..both neutered...shots etc. Need to find them homes....thank you.
posted by PatMyersNoller, on 2018-08-16 20:18:56
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I came across 5 cats 2 kittens...I DONT WANT THEM DEAD but can not keep them. They were at the house I purchased and they are inside Beautiful cats!!!!! I love animals but did not purchase the house with the cats in the contract!!!!!PLEASE HELP THERE IS NO REASON FOR THEM TO DIE OR STARVE TO DEATH. Im flipping house and i know whomever buys house will not take them in.....#856-896-1092...Luis [email protected]
posted by (empty name), on 2015-08-04 23:07:25
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i have 9 cats male and female, neutered and first shots..have a 5 month old and cant keep them..dont want to put them to sleep or put them on the street, have no transportation..please help
posted by rosebud92214, on 2014-11-26 11:33:35
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