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Gulf Coast Humane Society (Corpus Christi)


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On January 15, 1945, a group of animal lovers led by Frances Weil filed a charter to form the Gulf Coast Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. On March 22, 1947, the Society filed a charter amendment changing the name to Gulf Coast Humane Society, its corporate name until 1976, when it was amended to PAWS-Gulf Coast Humane Society.

From its beginning, the men and women of the Society acted as humane officers for Nueces and the surrounding counties. In Corpus Christi, the Society members worked closely with the police officers assigned to humane duties and the City Pound. In 1947, the Society acquired a permanent home. They purchased 3.2 acres of land on Navigation Boulevard. It was through annual fund drives, rummage sales, charity balls, and similar efforts that the Society was able to pay off the land purchases and build a very fine kennel building.

In 1997, the board of directors decided to revert back to the previous name of Gulf Coast Humane Society. In April 1998, the Society began operating from a new facility. The facility was made possible by the generous donation of Tom and Cora Keeler. The new facility is double the size of the Society's old home, allowing the organization to help more animals and offer expanded education and services to the public.

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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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Female GS 5 years old lost in Calallen area on 7/3/21
posted by Roberto Martinez, on 2021-07-06 14:41:26
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Was she a longed hair GS? If so a homeless person was trying to call her over, she was walking by the hotel next to the Holiday inn. I hope you find her.
posted by [email protected], on 2023-11-06 22:06:09
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I am still trying to negotiate this website - bear with me, please! There are 2 young dogs at Nueces County Animal Shelter who will be put to death TODAY unless a rescue steps up to save their lives. PLEASE tag them to save! They are lively and friendly, and, with a little discipline, would make loyal companions for any family! They are in Kennel 2 - PLEASE help them!
posted by [email protected], on 2022-07-08 13:28:11
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I found a kitten in the road, very small and barely has eyes open. I can’t take care of it, where do I take it?
posted by Evelyn Suarez, on 2021-05-12 12:22:21
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my dog oso is missing since April 30 2021 He got out before the rain started on and did have his collar on due to the fact that he he had just had a bath He is White small dog with bright blue eyes he also has I speckles on his lower lids please contact me @ 361 549 2549 if you come in contact with him
posted by [email protected], on 2021-05-01 20:50:24
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Our family pet of 15 years was lost on January 29, 2021. She is a light brown lab with her bottom teeth missing. Her name is Crysta and she does have a microchip. She was lost in Flour Bluff on the base side of the bluff so if you find her please notify me at 361-537=0104.
posted by [email protected], on 2021-02-01 14:37:30
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Lost 12 year old female German shepherd. Her name is Sasha. Missing since 3/26/20. She is beige,black and her left ear is droopy. She's from Herndon St and Wasserman st. Staples and Weber area .please call me at 3619044817. We love her and miss her . $200 reward . Thank you
posted by [email protected], on 2020-04-01 18:12:42
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We lost our female pit bull color tan / gray color. Idk if u call that brindle. No spay no chip. Goes by Lil Dog very friendly has white on her paws and under her neck . Some white around nose area. Maybe wearing red collar no tags . Please call 5100607 if she shows up. Lost her Friday Jan 3 noon Prescott Trojan area call us please we love her and miss her
posted by Nancy Sanchez Ramirez, on 2020-01-04 15:33:15
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We lost our female GSD. She is medium size. Black/tan. Answers to Skye. Very skittish. No chip, spayed. Please let me know if she shows up there.
posted by Sandi Murphy, on 2020-01-02 15:18:55
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I lost my dog he is white husky with blue eyes he had on blue collar. He also had a wound on his right or left side of his butt. Please help me keep an eye on him. His name is kubo
posted by Valerie Ruiz, on 2019-12-03 15:06:57
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