Stronger Together: Healing Every Paw

**You can help us save our MVPs - our Most Valuable Patients **

Why We Can’t Wait

Every day, pets arrive at El Paso Animal Services sick, injured, or abandoned. Some are hit by cars with fractures or head trauma, others come in with deep wounds, infections, or severe malnutrition. Many are fighting illnesses like parvo, panleukopenia, or distemper, while seniors struggle with untreated diabetes, glaucoma, or heart disease. They depend on us for lifesaving medical care and the chance to heal.

Healing Starts with You

This year, Friends of EPAS is raising $50,000 through El Paso Giving Day to provide critical medical care for the thousands of pets who arrive at the shelter each year. Every gift helps cover diagnostics, treatment, surgeries, and spay/neuter services that give animals the chance to heal and find loving homes.

This campaign is also part of a larger vision: to fully equip the shelter’s medical lab, expand spay and neuter programs so more families can keep their pets healthy at home, and save the most vulnerable lives that come into the shelter.

Our Starting Lineup:

• Blinky: Blinky, an elderly blind pup, was brought into the shelter with painful, damaged eyes. Our medical team carefully treated her eyes in hopes of saving her vision, and a kind staff member fostered her during this time. While in foster care, Blinky began feeling unwell, and our team discovered a life-threatening pyometra. She underwent emergency surgery to remove the infection and was spayed, saving her life. Today, Blinky is healthy, thriving, and enjoying her golden years in the loving home of the staff member who fostered her.

• Patty: Patty was brought to our shelter in critical condition, severely overweight with an infected abdominal wound and a ruptured mass on her leg, and heartworm positive. Our medical team performed life-saving surgery, revealing injuries that had gone untreated for a long time. Today, Patty is safe and thriving with a loving foster while on her weight-loss journey and undergoing heartworm treatment.

• Sour Puss: When Ms. Sour Puss arrived at the shelter, she was in rough shape - suffering from severe glaucoma, painful mouth ulcers, and an upper respiratory infection. The El Paso Animal Services medical team stepped in as quickly as they could, performing surgery to remove both of her eyes and treating her other health issues so she could finally recover.

• Dulce: Dulce came to us as an injured puppy after being hit by a car, and with limited medical equipment, our team worked tirelessly to save her leg. Despite surgery and physical therapy, she ultimately needed an amputation to live pain-free. Today, Dulce is thriving in a loving home — but her journey shows how critical timely care is for pets in need. With better medical equipment, El Paso Animal Services can provide faster, more effective treatment and give more pets like Dulce the second chance they deserve.

Be Part of the Healing — Today and Tomorrow

Your gift — no matter the size — changes outcomes for pets in need

Every gift, whether $10 or $10,000, helps us reach our $50,000 goal and creates lasting change. Together, we can heal pets today, fully equip the shelter’s medical lab, expand spay and neuter programs, and help save the most vulnerable lives that enter the shelter.

Every dollar heals. Every gift gives hope. Join us in healing every paw today and building a healthier tomorrow for El Paso’s pets.