El Paso Animal Volunteers

02/02/2023

12/16/2022

Today is day 2!

Boss Chicken is having a donation drive for the Humane Society. Customers will get 20% off if they donate a “dog toy or blanket”. The donation drive runs from 12/14-12/23. *All El Paso Locations*

11/24/2022

11/18/2022

10/05/2022

One of our west side rescues (I'm Almost Home) is going to need some extra help this weekend! They're already hurting on volunteers, but a couple of the regulars are out of town this weekend and some of the dogs won't get a chance to get out at all this entire week without a couple of helpful volunteers. New or experienced, the pups would LOVE to meet you.

Please, send a message if you're interested, now or in the future, and share with your friends!

07/15/2022

Volunteering can be a wonderful experience for both volunteers and pets! Rescues around El Paso need assistance regularly, we invite you to sign up for local shelter Pet Guardian Angel of El Paso who is always seeking volunteers! You can find more information on hoe to sing up on the link below. If you need assistance coordinating with the rescue or need more information please dm us! We encourage you to apply as our fur babies and rescues need all the help they can get! 🐾🐶

https://petguardianangelelpaso.org/volunteer-information

07/06/2022

We need your help! The number of pets in need is only increasing and we need as many volunteers as we can get! If you’re interested in more information in volunteering please send us a dm! El Paso pets need our help now 📌

07/05/2022

One of these days I won't be here and I'm going to need some help keeping the volunteer effort going forward. This city will always be one of the most needy in the U.S. and I really need help finding people willing to help me with outreach and volunteer coordinating. If anyone's interest at all please let me know. Anything helps! Social media focus, volunteer outreach, rescue coordinating.

06/30/2022

We need some serious help! The city of Sunland Park is ceasing all funding and calling for remained dogs to be euthanized since there will no longer be an organization to help save these animals! A few of us are trying to find a way to keep them alive, as they DESERVE A CHANCE. All we need is a little help from some volunteers!!! If you have been on the fence, or if you know someone who would be able to help, now is the time! I know we all have busy lives, but I'm personally going to be going every morning even with my full time chaotic job and do everything I can to help keep them alive. If you can help out in some morning or afternoon walks, feeding and maybe cleaning PLEASE REACH OUT. If you can't PLEASE SHARE.

The city of Sunland park will be completing their kennels that are located in SP by end of July. Once done they want all staff and and dogs back to the holding facility. Once there they want to take the dogs to ASCMV to be euthanized. Thankfully .hyde.16 from has allowed the dogs to stay at ARL until they can be moved out of town or adopted. This means volunteers will be the only ones caring for the last 9 dogs.

06/20/2022

We have at least one dog trainer coming out to the west side this Saturday the 25th at 09:00 AM. I'd love to get some suggestions on a rescue who has enough volunteers to support some good training during this time so that we can work on making the dogs more adoptable. Either way, I'll be spreading the knowledge I get to rescues around town to help out. The more the merrier! If anyone would like to come out please let me know and we can coordinate a location that best fits the training.

06/20/2022

Looking for recommendations on dog trainers who would be willing to spend an hour or two this weekend teaching some basic leash training and obedience for rescue volunteers. If anyone has suggestions please send a message, comment or tag them here. We're doing our best to help make the rescue dogs more adoptable and give them higher chances of new forever homes.

05/02/2022

For the rescues out there, a resource that you may not have heard of or tried using is Pilots N Paws organization. Many pilots flying across the country are willing to assist in transporting pups wherever you need to send them. Check out the forums, rules, and put in a request! The group is continuing to grow, and the more people who use it the more it will grow. Wonderful opportunity to get the animals in need to where they need to go.

https://www.pilotsnpaws.org/
Pilots N Paws

05/01/2022

We need volunteers to help our fur babies in boarding!!
If anyone has been wanting to get involved, this is a great time!
These kiddos need walks and lovins'- even if all you can help is once a week for an hour.
This helps the dogs tremendously and helps get them exposure, to hopefully get them closer to finding their Furever home.
If interested, please PM us.

04/26/2022

SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico- The dogs of the Animal Rescue League are getting their legs a stretch. Thats because they have teamed up with the city of Sunland Park, New Mexico in order to take their dogs on leashes and out for walks. Saturday and Sunday at 9AM Sunland Park Human Resource Coordinator, M...

04/22/2022

We are looking for more volunteers interested in walking and play time with the pups in need across the city! Send us a message, we will find a pup near you that'd love to see you!

04/21/2022

04/10/2022

Lupe Diaz reached out to me to talk about their volunteer program over at Humane Society of El Paso not long ago. I've met so many rescues around the city, but this woman was one of the most enthusiastic and open minded individuals I've met in regards to making our city better for the animals. She truly is dedicated to making a difference.

If you don't know, they are centrally located in El Paso (convenient!) with a very large amount of animals who need help! Covid hurt their volunteer base much more than most, and they're looking to get it back to sp*ed.

If you're looking for volunteer opportunities and you're in the area, reach out!

Creative Brand Strategist for the Viva and Fiesta Auto Groups in El Paso, Texas, Estela Casas, is joined by The Humane Society of El Paso to talk about thei...

04/02/2022

A few of our west side rescues (new and old) will be needing some extra help with upcoming volunteer opportunities in the very near future. More info will be shared as soon as it's available. Until then, we'd love to get some new faces out on the weekends! If you're interested or you think ANY of your friends would be, please send a message or drop a comment.

Of course, there are locations on ALL sides of the city, and everyone needs help, so if you are wondering about other parts of the city I can get you in touch with many wonderful people saving dogs lives every day.

03/31/2022

There are thousands of pups waiting on a home, or even a short term foster to get away from the chaos of tightly packed kennels in rescues around the city. Sometimes they just need a little love to keep them going and to maintain hope. If you want to help out, reach out! We'll help you find some pups who would love to see you!

03/31/2022

This little pup went from absolutely untouchable to sleeping on a fosters child pillow the same night. All it takes is some love and effort. We can do better.

03/31/2022

I'll keep going until every dog finds a home, but I gotta say... the success stories really help a lot!

Theo was a shepherd mix in El Paso who was mentally degrading, marked as "dog aggressive" and turned out to be an absolute sweetheart. Wonderful adopters in Wisconsin gave him a chance and it turns out, that's all he needed! He loves his new family, to include cats and other dogs.

03/25/2022

To my regular west side volunteers, let me know if you're planning to come over this weekend!

03/18/2022

This weekend we'll be focusing some effort on a couple rescues on the west side who need help. We'll be playing with and walking some dogs who desperately need some time out of their pens, as well as helping tidy up some living conditions to make them more comfortable.

If you're interested, please reach out! If you know someone else who might be, please share! Well be starting around 8am both Saturday and Sunday.

03/14/2022

So many people grow up thinking their dogs are NOT part of their family. They think if they p*e in the house, get scared and bite another dog, chew on some shoes, they should be thrown out in to the desert. These people go home and sleep like a baby, because they just don't believe they did anything wrong.

The dogs, though... they have no clue what they did wrong. They never got a chance. They were never taught what is right or wrong. Puppies pulled from dumpsters, from the desert, shopping carts at foodmart, you name it, grow up scared and alone, losing their minds, in a pen with barely any interaction.

I get it, fostering and adoption is like fast track parenting of a newborn. It's a lot of work, and it's just not an option for some. There are THOUSANDS of dogs in this city with no shot, on death row. If you can't save them with a home, maybe you can save their spirits. I've been making it my goal to help dogs who are degrading to the point that euthanasia almost seems like the best option. If you could find it in your heart to spend an hour or two a week, or EVEN ONCE, helping just getting a sad pup out of their cage, share some hugs, a short stroll down the street to get their tails wagging, you'd be doing so much more than you could imagine.

Our group is small, but our efforts have been strong. I've had dozens of volunteers reach out, finding places to help out. If we keep growing, we can reach a point where our city had a self-sustaining volunteer base to give these helpless dogs a chance.

If you have any hesitations, please just message me and I'll do all I can to find a good location, good fit for you to share your time with pets in need.

03/11/2022

For anyone planning on doing some volunteering this weekend please message me or comment. Had a few people reach out and want to make sure I got them all. Some adoption event on the east side, dog work and maintenance work on the west side (canutillo).

03/09/2022

Looking for some more help on the west side (Canutillo). A few people to help some pups in need would be huge!

I'm Almost Home Animal Rescue-Sunland Park Satellite