Action for Animals (APA) Mission and Vision

Our mission is to offer lifesaving programs and services to rescue at-risk companion animals in Doña Ana County and support people and their pets in living healthy and happy lives together. We envision a time when all companion animals in our community are treated with respect and kindness.

Since May 2012, we have rescued more than 6,300 animals.

The majority of these have been dogs and cats/kittens pulled from our municipal shelter.

We can do this through the tireless work of our staff, foster families, and volunteers, and because of the support of our donors. The APA Adoption and Education Center is located at 537 N. Solano Dr. and is open Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday/Saturday from 11 to 3 or by appointment.

Info line:  575-644-0505; adoption center:  575-571-4654; e-mail:  mail@apalascruces.org.

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ACTion Programs for Animals

Services and programs we offer: We rescue dogs and cats, primarily from the shelter, to offer for adoption. We also run the local pet food bank, the Prisoners and Animals Working Toward Success (P.A.W.S.) prison dog training program, and our Second Chance Thrift Store. This is a page for those interested in and supporters of ACTion Programs for Animals in Las Cruces, New Mexico. We hope that you will interact with the content on this page. If you choose to leave a comment, you are agreeing to our community guidelines policy, outlined below. We reserve the right to delete posts on our page containing any of the following elements: -racist/hate speech - profanity - misinformation - spam - off-topic/irrelevant including self-promotional posts not having to do with animals or the organization - personal attacks - promoting violence - promoting illegal or questionable activities - rallying on behalf of people or organizations which support animal abuse - circulation of photos that depict animal cruelty If you violate this policy, you will be removed from our page. You will also be removed if you repeatedly harass the organization or others in the comment section. We encourage open discussion and engagement, which includes disagreement, but we will not tolerate the use of our page to harass or taunt others. We appreciate your cooperation and support!
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ACTion Programs for Animals2 days ago
We are sorry our audio didn't work this morning for our POW spot. We appreciate Monica and Hot 103 for helping us feature a special adoptable each week.
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ACTion Programs for Animals2 days ago
BIG congrats to cute Toto on her adoption today! Her new daddy was so happy!!
❤️🐾❤️
#dogrescue #adoptdontshop #donationsneeded #donationsappreciated
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ACTion Programs for Animals2 days ago
Join us tomorrow morning at 8:30 a.m. with our friends at Hot 103, our lovely host Monica, and handsome boy Grayson, our Pet-of-the-Week (POW). He's 2.5 years old and is a mellow love bug. Grayson was taken to the big shelter as a stray, and he wasn't claimed. Then he came to APA and is ready for a home!
Come see all our cats/kittens and dogs at our adoption center at 537 N. Solano Dr. on Tues/Wed/Thurs/Sat 11 to 3 or by appointment at 575-571-4654; apalascruces.org.
#catrescue #adoptasheltercat #volunteersmakeadifference #donationsmakeadifference
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ACTion Programs for Animals3 days ago
It was fun in the sun and pool yesterday at our Doggy Play Group time. Our in-house Southern New Mexico PAWS Team does a great job keeping our prison-trained dogs socialized and happy. They also keep up their training skills until adoption. ALL of these PAWS dogs are ready for their furrever homes! 💙🐾💙
#dogrescue #prisondogprogram #adoptatraineddog #ittakesavillage #donationsmakeadifference
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ACTion Programs for Animals is working hard to help our community reach a No Kill status (saving 90+% of our sheltered animals’ lives) as quickly as possible.

Services and programs we offer: pet food bank, low-cost dog and cat vaccination clinics, Second Chance Dogs rescue program for formerly abused dogs, APA Rescue Program.

campaign which pulls at-risk animals from our municipal shelter to lower our kill rate.

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