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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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!

ACTion Programs for Animals21 hours ago

Last week, our dedicated volunteer, Kandy, took sweet Moiraine to visit the good people at Haciendas at Grace Village. They visit all the residents at the facility to share doggy love and cheer. 🐾❤️🐾
Moiraine is a young adult gal we pulled from the municipal shelter more than a month ago. She is undergoing heartworm treatment with us and was just adopted yesterday.
(See the video in Comments below.)
We are still begging everyone who supports us to sign up as an APA Recurring Donor Hero if you have not done so already. About 250 of you have, and we are grateful. We just need vastly more to do so!
In the meantime, we have been discussing and contemplating emergency operations that would halt intakes for a long while and lead to possible staff reductions. It's the last thing we want to do, but we have to plan for the worst because we are truly one big emergency away from disaster. We have little surplus funding.
We need YOUR help to continue as is and grow to fill in more needed resource gaps in DAC. There are great needs in our community, and we want to meet them.
NO amount is too small to contribute!! Learn more at https://apalascruces.org/become-a-recurring-donor/
#dogrescue #volunteersmakeadifference
#adoptspecialneeds #ittakesavillage #donationsmakeadifference

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ACTion Programs for Animals2 days ago

Thanks to a willing bottle baby foster, we were able to save this 2-week old abandoned kitten from the Animal Services Center of the Mesilla Valley recently. Isn't he a cutie pie? Let's all pray the baby survives and thrives.
#kittenseason2025 #bottlebabykitten #fosterssavelives #donationsneeded #donationsappreciated

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ACTion Programs for Animals2 days ago

We had a VERY busy day! Four kittens were adopted and two small dogs, too!! And adult cat Cabernet went on a Sleepover!!!
🐾🧡🐾💙🐾❤️🐾
#dogrescue #catrescue #kittenrescue #adoptdontshop #ringwormtreatment #volunteersmakeadifference #donationsmakeadifference

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ACTion Programs for Animals2 days ago

Our Southern New Mexico PAWS Team is at PetSmart until 2. Drop by if you're nearby!

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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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Action for Animals (APA) Mission and Vision

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

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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.