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!

ACTion Programs for Animals6 hours ago

Join us in wishing Southern New Mexico PAWS dog Carlos the best of luck on his Sleepover with our wonderful volunteer, Spencer. If all works out, Carlos will join PAWS alum Genie in the home. Carlos is a shy/scared boy who needed someone to give him a chance. We're rooting for him! 🐾💙🐾
#dogrescue #prisondogprogram #adoptatraineddog #doggysleepover #volunteersmakeadifference #donationsmakeadifference

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ACTion Programs for Animals19 hours ago

Join us tomomorning at 8:30 a.m. with our friends at Hot 103, our lovely host Monica, and our sweet kittens---our Pets-of-the-Week (POWs)! Kitten season has begun, and the kittens are coming in almost weekly now. Although we don't let kittens go home until they are fully vetted, you can come meet them and adopt/reserve them. And you can come visit them anytime we are open until they can go home! In the meantime, we take great care of them, and they get well socialized in our awesome kitten room and catio.
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; 575-571-4654; apalascruces.org
#kittenseason2025 #kittenrescue #adoptashelterkitten #adopttwokittens #ittakesavillage #volunteersmakeadifference #donationsmakeadifference

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ACTion Programs for Animals23 hours ago

BIG congrats to Duchess on her adoption today! Her new family doesn't mind that she's sometimes over-stimulated and gets grouchy.
😹🧡🐾😻
#catrescue #adoptasheltercat #donationsmakeadifference #volunteersmakeadifference

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ACTion Programs for Animals2 days ago

***UPDATE: We found a foster! We are grateful to her!****
We need a bottle baby foster for this little one found and brought to our cat caregiver lead. Can anyone help? We only have one bottle baby foster mom right now who has her hands full. Stop by tomorrow if you're able to foster from 11 to 3.
#bottlebabykitten #fosteringsaveslives #ittakesavillage #donationsneeded #donationsappreciated

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ACTion Programs for Animals2 days ago

Our Volunteer Spotlight this week is on Gordon. He often transports felines for us to Albuquerque in his big, cool van. And we appreciate his dedication and support in moving our surplus rescue kittens and cats to areas now less populated than ours. It helps us rescue vastly more lives! 🧡😻🐾
#kittenrescue #catrescue #rescuepartners #animaltransport #volunteersmakeadifference #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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