Playa Animal Welfare Services, Inc., also known as Playa Paws, was founded in 2021 in Añasco, Puerto Rico. We are a registered Puerto Rico Non-Profit organization and we also have 501(c)3 nonprofit public charity status with the IRS. All donations are tax deductible.
Due to many factors, including poverty, culture, climate, and lack of affordable spay/neuter and veterinary services on the island, there are over a million stray, homeless, and abandoned animals in Puerto Rico. Without help from rescue organizations, many of these loving pets suffer and die on the streets, due parasites, intentional poisoning, car strikes, and lack of proper nutrition.
We rescue pets who are unwanted, abandoned, and from hoarding, neglect, and cruelty cases. We provide vet care, high quality food, enrichment, and a safe, loving environment for kitties and puppies while we search for loving forever homes. We fly all of our rescue animals to loving homes in the States because of the poor living conditions for animals and the extreme pet-overpopulation on the island.
Our adoption fees include: vaccines, deworming, flea treatment, transport to the airport, airfare, a new airline-approved pet carrier, and health records. The cost of adoption does not come close to covering our expenses to rescue, care for, and transport the 80+ animals in our care at any given time. Please consider adopting, fostering, volunteering, or donating to our rescue. We save as many as we can, with very few resources. We have no paid staff and all donations go directly to our expenses in caring for the animals in our rescue. We cannot save them without your help!
Due to many factors, including poverty, culture, climate, and lack of affordable spay/neuter and veterinary services on the island, there are over a million stray, homeless, and abandoned animals in Puerto Rico. Without help from rescue organizations, many of these loving pets suffer and die on the streets, due parasites, intentional poisoning, car strikes, and lack of proper nutrition.
We rescue pets who are unwanted, abandoned, and from hoarding, neglect, and cruelty cases. We provide vet care, high quality food, enrichment, and a safe, loving environment for kitties and puppies while we search for loving forever homes. We fly all of our rescue animals to loving homes in the States because of the poor living conditions for animals and the extreme pet-overpopulation on the island.
Our adoption fees include: vaccines, deworming, flea treatment, transport to the airport, airfare, a new airline-approved pet carrier, and health records. The cost of adoption does not come close to covering our expenses to rescue, care for, and transport the 80+ animals in our care at any given time. Please consider adopting, fostering, volunteering, or donating to our rescue. We save as many as we can, with very few resources. We have no paid staff and all donations go directly to our expenses in caring for the animals in our rescue. We cannot save them without your help!