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You are cordially invited to attend Spotlight on PAWS
A dinner and auction to benefit PAWS of Bainbridge Island & North Kitsap
Held September 19 at beautiful IslandWood on Bainbridge Island.
Enjoy a sumptuous IslandWood meal, plus fabulous live and silent auction items! Read more, including a full menu, or purchase tickets online.
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WHAT IS PAWS?
PAWS of Bainbridge Island and North Kitsap is a volunteer-based nonprofit animal welfare organization that promotes responsible pet ownership and the reduction of pet overpopulation. PAWS features low-cost spay/neuter and veterinary financial assistance for pets of low income residents of Bainbridge Island and North Kitsap, a lost and found pet registry, and a pet adoption program.
WHAT PAWS DOES
Since record keeping began in 1998, PAWS
has accomplished the following:
2,795 Pets spayed or neutered
3,408 Owners received financial assistan
Visit
our Cat Adoption Center!
 8820 Miller Road
Bainbridge Island. Phone: 206/780-0656 or Toll Free from Kitsap, 866/780-0656.
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ce for their pets' veterinary needs
3,620 Pets received veterinary assistance
6,927 Lost and found pets reported
701 Feral cats sterilized
3,416 Cats and kittens adopted to loving new homes
43,880 Total phone calls received
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PAWS WagFest: June 20 at Battle Point Park
 WagFest 2009 created a plethora of positive canine memories -- from dancing dogs to canine cops and everything in between. The event at Battle Point Park on Bainbridge Island drew around 250 people and close to 150 dogs in a celebration of all things canine. Thanks go out to all the registrants and teams who helped raise funds for PAWS' dog programs, as well as to all the sponsors, volunteers, vendors, demonstrators, and park visitors who took part in the event. Special thanks to Cara Leyshon of Healthy Pets Animal Hospital in Olympia for stepping in at the last minute to run the WagFest microchip clinic. Lots of pictures available by clicking here:
Read all about it in the Northwest Navigator and the Bainbridge Review!
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Kitten Underground Railroad
T hese are Harriet and Sojourner, two of 11 kittens that came to PAWS this weekend. Grant County Animal Outreach was faced with a tough situation. Their only kitten foster home faced legal action from neighbors for being over limit on animals, forcing all of their foster kittens to be returned to the already overcrowded shelter.
With no other options, all of the kittens faced euthanasia. Stepping up to the plate was a loose coalition of animal rescue agencies. From Moses Lake to Wenatchee, to Fife to Bremerton dozens of kittens were transported to th e waiting hands of new foster families from Animal Welfare agencies willing to lend a hand. Without this cooperation these kittens faced certain death, but they now have been spayed and vaccinated and are ready to find their forever homes through PAWS of Bainbridge and North Kitsap.
You can visit Sojourner and Harriet, or other kittens available for adoption at the Cat Adoption Center, 8820 Miller Road. (Click for hours and more information.)
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Caring for Pets and Neighbors in a Tight Economy
 Can you imagine having to give up your pet because you can't afford to feed it, or can't afford the medicine or veterinary care it needs? We're working hard to make sure local families don't have to face that horrible prospect. Friends of PAWS are pitching in to support two programs that help neighbors and their pets who may be having a tough time with the tight economy.
Pet Food Bank
Click here to learn more about the PAWS pet food bank, making cat and dog food available through four food banks on Bainbridge Island and North Kitsap.
Veterinary Financial Assistance
Click here to learn about PAWS' program that provides veterinary financial assistance for the pets of low-income residents of Bainbridge Island and North Kitsap.
Click here to help support these programs with an on-line donation
(write in “pet food bank” or “veterinary financial assistance” on the "special request" line.)
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