Norman Animal Welfare

01/30/2025

Only two days left of our fee waived adoptions and WE HAVE PUPPIES!!! Come by and meet your new best friend. All puppies are spayed/neutered, microchipped and have age-appropriate vaccinations.

01/29/2025

📊Statistics show that adopting a dog named Raini on a rainy day is lucky🌦️ Also, we just made up that statistic, but feel really good about being right on this one😊 We’re not gonna lie, Raini looks like a lunatic in his kennel, but he just really wants out to play and meet you. 😇Were he content in the kennel he would have been adopted very quickly, so you’re in luck that he is still available. Come on in and meet him today and you will be singing in the rain😍☔️ Adoption fees are still waived for January. Raini is neutered, vaccinated, and microchipped.

01/28/2025

🥰Are you interested in donating via our Amazon wishlist, volunteering, becoming a foster, or just want to peruse our website? Save this photo and then tap and hold your finger on any of these QR codes and it will pop up a link to click. We could use Pup-Peroni treats and we always need paper towels.

01/27/2025

🎉Great news! Our girl 💎Diamond got adopted after 2️⃣0️⃣8️⃣ days in the shelter. She spent the last month in an office so people could get a chance to see what a great girl she is out of a kennel. We never want dogs to stay as long as Diamond for their mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing, and are thrilled she finally got her chance to show her stuff🐾🐾🐾

01/27/2025

❤️Remember Max? Max came to NAW with a fused jaw rendering him incable of opening his mouth to eat😩We fed him slurries and searched for a rescue to pull him. Our partners at 🐕Street Dog Hero🦸‍♀️tagged him for transport on our last flight of the year with Dog Is My CoPilot, Inc. Street Dog was able to raise the funds (💞with contributions from the great citizens of Norman) to make sure he got this critical surgery. So a big BowWow👏🎉to all of the rescue partners including YOU in being a part of Max’s happy tale!

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01/24/2025

We are so excited to partner up with the Firehouse Art Center for their Paw Prints and Portraits exhibit. We will have our adoption trailer at their Pawliday in the Park event on April 12th at Lions Park. Check out all they have going with this exhibit.

Paw Prints & Portraits is an exhibition celebrating our furry friends and the artists who make their living from their portraiture. Illustrations, painting, and sculptures made with love, and a touch of fur, decorate our homes and our hearts. Every perfectly wispy whisker, spectacular spot, or twitchy tail captured by an artist speaks volumes to the love we share for man's best friends.

The Firehouse Art Center has partnered with Norman Animal Welfare to serve the greater pet community. Featuring a dozen pet artists, the Firehouse has curated an exhibition showcasing a wide range of pet portrait artists from sculptors, illustrators, photographers, and more. This exhibition will run February 20 - April 30, 2025, with an opening reception being held February 20, 2025 from 5:30-8:30pm.

Join us Opening Night
February 20th from 5:30-8:30 PM
There will be live ukulele pop music by Jasmine Danasia. Food and beverages will be provided. A Poorly Drawn Pet Portraits station, where you can get a hand drawn portrait of your pet in ten minutes. There will also be an Embroidered bandana station where you can get your pets name embroidered on one of our themed bandanas.
https://www.normanfirehouse.com/events-exhibitions/2025/1/17/paw-prints-amp-portraits

Special Events:
🌟 Pawliday in the Park
🗓️ April 12 | Lions Park
Enjoy an artist alley, pet professionals, and fun activities for the whole family.

The Firehouse will sponsor muralist Rachel Cromer in partnership with the Norman Parks and Recreation for Movie in the Park.

Workshops & Activities:
🎨 Felted Pet Portraits with Darci Lenker Art (March 1)
🐕 DOGS DOGS DOGS Live Sketching with Claire Holloway (April 12)
🖌️ Illustration Workshop with Rachel Cromer (date TBD)
🐕 Sculpted Pet Portraits with Clayton Keyes (March 27)

Paw Prints & Portraits Featured Artist:
Rachele Cromer
Barbara Benton
Art of Alexandra Brodt
Claire Holloway
Darci Lenker Art
Konobie Arts - Art by Sandy Magrath
Boop Studio
Alayna Wong
Brandilyn Dunning
Clayton Keyes
June frantz hunt photography

01/21/2025

Red Bull showed up just as we needed wings checking in 11 abandoned puppies. They left us enough caffeine to make it through the day.

01/19/2025

🐕🎉Join us in givng a big BowWow! for Sophia. She collected items for her 9th birthday to donate to the shelter. Kiwi helped us thank her for her generosity. Happy Birthday🥳, Sophia, from the people and animals of Norman Animal Welfare! ❤️🐶

01/14/2025

💎Diamond is still hanging out in the office waiting for her person. She is such a sweet gal but will need someone who doesn’t have other dogs. She can tolerate them but is a little grumpy if they want to engage with her too much. She will be perfect for someone who wants a chill companion to hang and do life with🛋️📺📖.

🐾Adoption fees are waived all month and she is spayed vaccinate, and microchipped.

01/13/2025

🚧Renovation of one of our intake rooms is underway! We would like to thank Central Oklahoma Boarding & Grooming LLC for taking 3 of our adoptable dogs to foster during this time. We are also thankful for our other fosters who stepped up and took a dog so that we could create this space to complete this update.

🙏We would also like to thank you all for helping us by heeding our call to action to keep animals out of the shelter all year long. IF YOU FIND A STRAY, PLEASE DO NOT PICK THEM UP UNLESS YOU CAN CARE FOR THEM. (We’re not yelling at you, we’re just saying it for the people in the back.) Most dogs are within a block of their homes. Shelter space should be reserved for sick, injured, and dangerous animals. If you find a stray, call the police non-emergency line at 405-321-1444 and ask to report a stray animal.

01/08/2025

Diamond is getting real tired of waiting for an adopter as our longest stay dog. Come meet her tomorrow!

01/07/2025

💡Reminder: We will be closed tomorrow since it is the second Wednesday of the month. We need to make a few more spaces available while we tear out kennels in one of our intake rooms. Pop in today to adopt! Adoption fees are waived this month while we do the room renovation. See who all we have available at: https://www.adoptapet.com/shelter/84877/available-pets

Everyone is spayed or neutered, vaccinated, and microchipped.

Norman Animal Welfare is a municipal shelter operated and funded by the City of Norman, Oklahoma. In addition to providing a safe environment for our adoptable animals we also are responsible for the enforcement of all animal related laws within the City of Norman and holding all stray animals that....

01/06/2025

🥹It's rare a puppy becomes a long-stay dog, but that is unfortunately the case for Hector here. At 5 months old, this little guy is so sweet and yet is growing up in the shelter. 🆓Adoption fees are waived all month while we replace kennels in one of our intake rooms in the back.

💡All cats and dogs are spayed or neutered, microchipped and vaccinated. We also have a 30 day return policy to ensure they are a good fit for your home. If you live in Norman, we also offer 3-day staycations where you can take them with no obligation (just sign a waiver) to make sure they are a good fit before you adopt them (fully vaccinated dogs only, no young puppies).

01/03/2025

❗URGENT❗
📣We have a call to action for our Facebook friends! We need the community to work with us by taking steps to keep animals out of the shelter while we renovate one of our intake rooms. 💡That means 1️⃣ of our dedicated intake rooms for strays and protective custody holds will be unavailable for 3️⃣ weeks. We will be removing the existing kennels on January 9th. That room and the rest of the shelter are currently full. While this process is critical to maintaining a facility with up-to-date kennels and accommodations, it puts a temporary crimp in our intake flow. This also allows us an opportunity to educate our citizens on research that shows keeping animals out of the shelter is best for healthy and safe stray animals. You can use the four "effs": Follow them home, Find their home through social media, Phone the non-emergency line, Foster them if it is safe to do so.

🤝We need your help during this time by:
🐶Volunteering to be a temporary foster of an adult dog during the 3-week renovation.
🐶Keeping stray animals in the area they are found. 7️⃣0️⃣% of stray dogs are often within a mile of home and 4️⃣2️⃣% are found within a city block.
🐶If you follow them they will usually run home and are more likely to be found than at the shelter.
🐶Do not pick up stray animals. Call our non-emergency line at 405-321-1444 and ask to report a stray animal.
🐶Only pick up a stray animal if you can keep them safe with you at your home.
🐶Shelters should serve as triage spaces for sick, injured, and dangerous animals.
🐶Healthy strays are much more likely to find their homes from where they were found.

🙌One of the great things about serving the city of Norman is the eagerness and enthusiasm of our citizens to be informed and to grow when new information is presented. These standards that are researched and measured may challenge what you have been taught about taking animals to the shelter in the past but we are positive that as a community, they will be embraced and shared so others can help make Norman Animal Welfare one of the best shelters in the country.

If you would like to read more about methods and data associated with keeping healthy and safe strays out of shelters you can follow this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1npPWdRA8BW0DVVsCqbJ7FPDl-mJFsvuL2A0gpIJ3lIk/mobilebasic

01/02/2025

12/31/2024

🐕Need a dog that will sleep at your feet while you work and be ready for that after work run 🐾🐾or walk when you clock out? Lafayette is your perfect match! This heeler mix understands the work hard, play hard, recover, and repeat lifestyle. Lafayette is one of our longest stay dogs entering the shelter way back in August. 🗓️That’s a long time for any dog, but especially a smart and active dog like Lafayette. He would be perfect for an active person who is on the go and wants a canine partner to share the adventures with 🛣️🌄, or living that farm life🚜and curling up by the fire🪵at the end of a hard day’s work. Due to his length of stay, Lafayette is free to adopt. He is neutered, vaccinated, and microchipped.

12/27/2024

Shelly, one of our available adoptable dogs, went on a staycation over the Christmas holiday. Check out the write up about her Silent Nights and come meet her yourself. Let's get her a permanent home for the New Year!

🐕Sweet Shelly spent the Christmas holiday with us as a short-term foster from Norman Animal Welfare. Her exotic looks got everyone’s attention—a brindle mix breed in a 20-pound body. A little over a year-old, Shelly had a rough start in life but quickly warmed up to the comforts of home. Whenever we gave her a toy, she gave it a good workout and then took it to her crate as though she thought someone might take it away. 🥸She is extremely playful, energetic and affectionate. She is eager to please, especially when treats are involved. Although she is not housebroken, she caught on quickly while she was here and had no accidents on her last day with us. 🐾🐾She walks on a leash with a halter but will pull backwards and easily slip a collar. 🥺I think she has not always been treated with affection, and yet, still offers hers without reservation. With a little patience and a lot of love, she will make someone a great dog🐶