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 6,800 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/Thursday/Saturday from 11 to 4 and by appointment at 575-644-0505.

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 Animals22 hours ago
Dudly, the brindle mix, is going to make a great dog. From our Doggy Day Out family ... "all he wants is love. We enjoyed having him this afternoon. He and our APA foster, Stella, played, slept, went for a walk, and got a poochie cone. I hope we gave him the best afternoon ever. He was good for Stella, too. Caliches was packed with people, and she didn’t get scared. That's great progress fot these shy PAWS dogs."
Dudley needs a family to give him a chance. Could test be you? @@🐾💙🐾
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ACTion Programs for Animals2 days ago
Ajax joined our awesome volunteer, Kandy, last week to visit the nice people at Haciendas at Grace Village. Kandy and one of our dogs visit the residents in four buildings each Tuesday afternoon to share doggy joy and love.
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And Ajax was a hit because he's full of life, and he's a gorgeous brindle boy. Though he didn't pass all the skills to graduate from our Southern New Mexico PAWS prison training program, he was there and learned a lot. And Ajax is still looking for his furever home.
#dogrescue #prisondogprogram #ittakesavillage #volunteersmakeadifference #donationsmakeadifference
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ACTion Programs for Animals3 days ago
Congrats to all our furbabies who werr adopted today! 🐾❤️🐾 #dogrescue #catrescue #ittakesavillage #volunteersmakeadifference #donationsmakeadifference
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ACTion Programs for Animals3 days ago
Sweet, handsome Nevermore is on the mend! He'll be moving to our communal cat room soon!! 😻
#catrescue #rescueveterinarycare #ittakesavillage #volunteersmakeadifference #DonationsMakeaDifference
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APA is working hard to help our municipal shelter and community become a No Kill success story. We pull animals from the shelter when we have space.
The programs and services we offer are the Pet Food Bank, P.A.W.S. (Prisoners and Animals Working Toward Success), a prison-dog training program, and our adoption center, where cats/kittens/dogs are cared for 24/7/365 until adopted. We care for up to 100 animals in our building.

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