PAWtapon Patrol is a group from 12 - A dedicated to discuss the conditions of the animal shelters in Quezon City, specifically Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) located in Aurora Blvd. 

PAWS is not just an animal shelter that provides food, water, and healthcare to its residents — the organization also implements various programs aimed at addressing the needs of animals and promoting animal welfare.

"PAWS takes a firm stand on matters relating to animal welfare, and continues to lobby for better laws to ensure humane treatment of all animals."

PAWS relies on the support of volunteers to carry out its mission. The organization needs a constant influx of volunteer workers to help care for the animals in the shelter and participate in various programs, such as feeding and education programs.

Given these problems, our project aimed to determine and figure out the causes for the increasing population of strays, possible preventions for the reproduction of strays, and the incentives that people had for abusing or abandoning them.

(1) To help the chosen animal shelter, which in this case was PAWS located in Aurora Boulevard, Quezon City; We want to lessen their workload and donate some cash to help add to their budget.

(2) To widen the research on strays in the Philippines by retrieving more information on the current situation of strays both in and out of the Philippine animal shelters, as there was little information and research on this available anywhere.

Bark-ada Bites is a fundraising booth that aims to support the Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) Animal Rehabilitation Center by selling a variety of baked goods and merchandise. 

Under the supervision of our Social Science 6 teacher, our menu featured delicious boat tarts, banana muffins, carrot cakes, and chocolate chip cookies for a low price that are sure to satisfy any sweet tooth — all made with pure love!

 Our proceeds went into providing food, vitamins, pet supplies, and cleaning materials for the animals at PAWS while also giving awareness to the passerby buying from our stall 

With the cleaning materials requested by PAWS for volunteers to bring, the group cleaned areas of the facility. Several walkways were swept and subsequently scrubbed with soap in order to remove the obvious dirt that accumulated over time.

This cleaning program was done to help keep the shelter in a condition that is safe to both humans and the animals, and presentable to visitors!

Another program organized by PAWS is a cat socialization program wherein volunteers may go into the Kittenery and Cattery Annex where cats who are not scared of humans but not totally comfortable with them yet, and play around with the cats. 

This allows cats to get used to the presence of humans, and it also allows them to interact with humans.

The book reading program saw volunteers reading children’s books to the dogs not only so that they may get used to a human’s presence, but that they may learn to trust humans again by seeing that not all humans mean them harm, especially within the shelter. 

This distrust in humans was, for most of the dogs, a result of having received abuse from humans before they were taken in by PAWS.

Not only were several volunteering activities performed, but much information regarding the state of stray dogs and cats, how they may be helped, and the common misconceptions people have about them was gained through the implementation of this project.

Watch the video on the left to see what made the project worthwhile!