NO PAW LEFT BEHIND OF THE UNITED STATES INC
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Mission Statement
No Paw Left Behind is a 501c3 nonprofit organization comprised of an all-volunteer team of pet rehabilitation specialists. All pets are housed in foster homes, affording us the greatest possible opportunity to provide individualized care and get to know our pets' personalities. This information helps us create customized rehabilitation programs and match the pets with the best possible forever homes. We accept dogs, cats, birds and small companion pets, regardless of breed, age, size, type or special need. If we have the resources to provide for the pet, they are welcomed into our program.
About This Cause
Background – No Paw Left Behind is a 501c3 nonprofit organization comprised of an all-volunteer team of pet rehabilitation specialists. Founded in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami, we specialize with community engagement and reaching out to prevent cruelty and increase animal welfare in the most underserved areas in our community. All pets are housed in foster homes, affording us the greatest possible opportunity to provide individualized care and get to know our pets' personalities. This information helps us create customized rehabilitation programs and match the pets with the best possible forever homes. We accept dogs, cats, birds and small companion pets, regardless of breed, age, size, type or special need. If we have the resources to provide for the pet, they are welcomed into our program. Our #nopawalumni include survivors from a life on the streets, from high kill shelters, being hit by cars, sick with parvo and distemper, abandonment in the Everglades, from high profile criminal cruelty cases, and many more unfortunate situations which left them in need. At the end of 2015, we have proudly rescued, rehabilitated and placed close to 4000 dogs, cats, birds and small companion pets. Since, we have focused on 50-100 pets per year, taking on many medical cases that were deemed hopeless by other organizations. Our mission up until 2020 has been focused on these extreme cases, and we are using this knowledge to move into a new stage of our commitment to preventing suffering through direct medical care. We are working on a new initiative to help increase the impact of our interventions to increase medical care and adoption pathways for community cats in emergency need. This initiative collaborates with a wide network of trap-neuter-return volunteers across South Florida to immediately address the suffering of injured and sick community cats. Special Program -- Right now, across South Florida, county shelters are supporting (and in many cases funding) large scale trap-neuter-return (TNR) programs. These programs offer reduced or free sterilization for found or feral cats and return them to the communities in which they were found. These programs also return friendly cats and kittens, and a significant percentage of these cats and kittens would be highly adoptable if resources were available to our community cat caretakers. With the generous support of the Folke H. Paterson Foundation Grant, No Paw Left Behind will increase our intervention to immediately stop the suffering of sick or injured community cats and further develop a support system to increase the number of cats and kittens diverted from TNR into adoption pathways. Specifically, the funds will be used to provide immediate life-saving medical care for found cats and to support adoption pathways through promotion and a trial pop-up adoption space (reflected in budget under proposed occupancy expenses for 2021). This program is designed in coordination with NPLB’s founder, Jacquelyn Johnston, who is completing her dissertation on free-roaming cat management programs in South Florida. Her research establishes that while TNR has been demonstrated to be a humane alternative for most adult cats (Spehar and Wolf 2018 Schaffner et al 2019), kitten mortality rates are a central cause for preventable death in free-roaming feline populations (Nutter et al. 2004). In a recent study, researchers survey of free-roaming cat management practices and discusses high rates of death for kittens under 6 months (Boone et al 2019); the authors note TNR programs reduce kitten mortality rates by preventing births, but the diminished survival for free-roaming kittens remains underexplored, particularly in communities where TNR programs process kittens as small as 1lb 8oz. This initiative will immediately address the precarity of this population of community cats.