Forever Paws Animals Shelter
300 Lynwood St, Fall River, MA 02721
(508) 677-9154
"Giving animals a new leash on life."
Shelter License # 180
Forever Paws Animal Shelter gives animals a renewed leash on life by assisting them while homeless, in danger, or generally in need. We are the contracted shelter for the City of Fall River and the City of New Bedford. We house and care for all the stray animals in these areas, as well as animals surrendered by their owners. Our mission is to rehome animals in an ethically positive way that is beneficial to the overall well-being of the animal and our community.
Forever Paws works to give animals the gift of time through managed intake. This allows us to offer comprehensive treatment and care to stray, abused, or abandoned animals. Forever Paws continues to operate under no-kill practices, offering care for all treatable conditions with no restrictions on length of stay. Forever Paws is devoted to educating future generations to foster compassionate and humane attitudes towards all species of animal. We are a non-profit organization, relying on donations, fundraising, and dedicated benefactors and supporters.
"The 21 Dogs"
On 7/8/24 Forever Paws was called upon to handle a large cruelty case from the City of New Bedford. The case consisted of a total of 21 dogs,13 Cane Corso's weighing 100lbs on average, and the remaining 8 were Bulldog mixes-all being held in a third floor apartment. They presented with skin infections and ear infections, as well as being covered in urine and feces. Many of the dogs required specialty surgeries such as soft palate surgery, a caudectomy (screw tail),stenotic nares surgery, Cleft palate surgery, and multiple dogs needing Entropion surgery. Many of these dogs will have lifelong medical issues.
Despite all of this-these dogs were absolutely amazing and majority of them have moved on to their forever homes. This could not have been done without the support of this entire community and all of our followers.
Thank You to Anchor Animal Hospital, Village Veterinary Hospital and Chase Farm Veterinary Hospital for taking on all of these animals on top of their already full schedules.
A very special Thank you to the Fairhaven Animal Shelter who took in 5 dogs, and the Scituate Animal Shelter who took in 2, and Furget Me Not who took 1 dog. Shelters working together to help each other and the animals is something that is necessary now more than ever and we are so appreciative to continue these relationships.
We are forever grateful.
SAVE THE DATE! This is our favorite event of the year and we can't wait to see you there!
A very special THANK YOU to Judge Caprio for helping us spread the word about these wonderful dogs!
HOURS OF OPERATION:
We are open by appointment ONLY!
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 11-4 for preapproved applicants.
If you are not preapproved with us, please call at 11am to see if we have open appointments available. If we do, we are happy to schedule you.
We are closed every day from 12:30-1:30!
