PAWS will list (free of charge) lost and found pets, and those that need to be re-homed. Listings appear on this page, our website and the WAG newsletter for a period of one month, then can be renewed. Msg here or call the office for details.

The Creston Pet Adoption and Welfare Society (PAWS) is a registered, non-profit society committed to finding safe, loving, forever homes for abandoned and homeless animals in the Creston Valley. PAWS serves an area of approximately 3500 square miles and in 2010, our goal to establish Claudia's Place, a full service animal facility in the Creston Valley, was achieved.

PAWS is a no-kill rescue organization. We DO NOT kill animals for space, or because they are injured or ill or have behaviour problems or physical disabilities or because they have been in our care 'too long.' Only if an animal's injury or illness is, in the opinion of both our veterinarian and our board of directors, beyond help and the animal is suffering, with no hope of quality of life, will such an animal be gently and humanely euthanized.

PAWS volunteers take to heart our motto:
"Men have forgotten this truth........but you must not forget it. You become responsible forever for what you have tamed."
('The Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint-Exupery)