What's New: 

Donate $1 and NMPA! receives $2! NOW THROUGH MAY 31st.
In preparation for some very BIG NEXT STEPS to deliver more gap filling No Kill programming in New Mexico, we received an offer to match any individual donation to New Mexico Pets Alive! (including monthly pledged donations) received between now and May 31st. (The monthly pledges will be matched for the next 12 months!!) We greatly need this help right now and if you click one of the donate options on the top right hand side of this page and pledge to donate a monthly amount or a one time donation, we will be another step closer to saving more lives of innocent animals who have ended up homeless through no fault of their own.

Please join us today at whatever giving level you are able to gift. Every dollar matters and also goes a long way as it costs us about $250 to save one healthy or treatable homeless pet from euthanasia (less than half of what shelters in the ABQ area are currently spending to save a life). THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR HELPING US TO SAVE MORE LIVES! (We've discovered that our monthly donation button is not functioning properly for those who wish to pledge a monthly donation amount above $5. Please email us with your monthly donation amount if it is above $5 and we will help you get that processed.)

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"The experience of a Total Immersion Training Program at Austin Pets Alive! gives the trainee a high level perspective of the inner workings and infrastructure needed to be successful in replicating this model.  Every city is different and will have different needs but we believe our comprehensive programs work to help fill existing gaps in companion animal welfare and can help resolve any city's euthanasia problem." - Ellen Jefferson, DVM and Executive Director, Austin Pets Alive!

"I expect my spending 10 days immersed in Austin's programs to offer a deeper understanding of the day-to-day application and management of their successful companion animal lifesaving programs. This will be an invaluable opportunity for us as we launch the 1st No Kill physical programming space in Albuquerque and also continue our work to help people and pets in other New Mexico cities.” - Melissa Roberts, Executive Director, New Mexico Pets Alive!

THANK YOU! to everyone at Austin Pets Alive! (APA!) and San Antonio Pets Alive! (SAPA!) 

I ended my 10 day Immersion Training at APA! with incoming puppies and kittens, experiencing their finely tuned intake processing and getting each animal ready for their next steps for care and then adoption.

This experience was an experiment as APA! had never taken anyone under their wing like this on-site at their programming facility for this length of time. I knew it would be game changing for NMPA! No Kill programming efforts here in NM to benefit more people and pets but the past 10 days have far, far exceeded my expectations. The knowledge being brought back will not only save us tens of thousands of dollars in medical costs over the next few years but the in-depth time spent with APA! program managers, team leaders, staff and volunteers is expected to shave off about a year of our program development time - basically it is going to allow us to propel our efforts forward far more quickly than we originally anticipated it would.

Stayed tuned on facebook and via our e-news for posts of the remainder of the Immersion Training highlights. Our next steps are extremely important for homeless pets in NM, so please plan to join us for our next Volunteer Orientation in Albuquerque on Wed, May 15th and Sun., May 19th. Visit: http://www.newmexicopetsalive.org/events.php for more information. We will also soon be announcing public informational/educational meetings to provide information on what we have learned and what assistance we will work to provide to rescue groups, shelters and city and county administrators to help them duplicate these life-saving programs. 

With gratitude,
Melissa Roberts, Executive Director
New Mexico Pets Alive!

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This time last year, America had a little more than 25 municipal, open admission No Kill shelters serving approximately 50 communities. Today, we have over 300 cities (and counting) composing 94+ communities with municipal, open admission shelters and animal control depts who have chosen to be No Kill and are now saving upwards of 98% of their community's homeless pets and community cats. Yes, that's more than a 248% increase in 12 months! With your help, New Mexico can have that same success too. We look forward to working with you!!
http://www.newmexicopetsalive.org/get-involved.php

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We hope you will join us in supporting our work of creating progress for at-risk shelter pets in New Mexico.  Our volunteers have done a phenomenal job with very few resources.  We receive over 100 emails per week asking for our help for shelter pets and families who need help to prevent surrendering their pet to a shelter.  With the resources we have, we are able to help only a few of those each week and we want to be able to help many more.

With almost no sustainable financial support paired with a currently all-volunteer crew, we have achieved the following over this past 2012 year.  Imagine what we could do if we had your support today as a new member and partner in our life saving efforts!

• We continued one of the most important efforts to bring about positive, systemic change for our shelter pets: our awareness raising campaign launched in 2011.  Most animal lovers do not know that despite having enough homes here in New Mexico, within our region and within the United States, New Mexico shelters are putting down approximately 100,000 healthy and treatable companion animals every year.  These are dogs, cats, kittens and puppies just like yours and mine.  The knowledge of a better way and the know how of what to do to achieve success has been in existence for over a decade. We now have 300 economically, socially and culturally diverse cities (and growing) across America now saving upwards of 97% of their communities' lost and homeless pets.  Our pets in New Mexico deserve the same effort and subsequent success.
• We were the only animal welfare organization in the state of New Mexico to attend the first groundbreaking American Pets Alive! companion animal life saving educational conference held in Austin, TX by Austin Pets Alive!(APA!) in September 2011. After becoming the largest No Kill city in America with one of the most successful shelter program in the country, APA! was inundated with requests for hands-on learning opportunities so that others could learn how to duplicate their success.  From that conference we learned how to duplicate their success here in NM shelters and launched free case study community presentations in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Las Cruces, NM to share the knowledge we had learned.  We then set up a free shelter consultation program to help interested shelters learn how to duplicate Austin's programming. (See below).

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• With the help of No Kill Nation, sponsors and the generosity of No Kill leaders Nathan Winograd, Ryan Clinton, Bonney Brown, Aimee Sadler and Michael Mountain, we produced and hosted New Mexico's 1st No Kill conference, the Western States No Kill Conference, this past March.  We brought together 150 animal lovers from 8 states to learn from those who had successfully created No Kill communities.
  
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• Our 2nd annual conference is scheduled for September 14, 2013 in Albuquerque. If you'd like to help by volunteering or becoming a conference sponsor, please send an email to mail@newmexicopetsalive.org

• With the generous help of Animal Farm Foundation, and the commitment and expertise of Aimee Sadler and her assistant Mike Kaviani, we delivered life saving playgroups program training to the City of Albuquerque's Animal Welfare Dept and the Raton Humane Society to help them save more shelter dogs by increasing their health and adoptability which comes with the full implementation of this now national shelter assistance program. In April of 2013, we will be delivering 'Round 2 for Saving Shelter Dogs' with Aimee Sadler and Mike Kaviani to 2 more shelters in NM.  To nominate your local shelter to receive this life-saving programming, please send an email to mail@newmexicopetsalive.org.
  

• We launched Albuquerque's first effort to make Albuquerque, America's next No Kill city through the advocacy efforts and gap-filling programs and services of Albuquerque Pets Alive! (ABQPA!).  We created both a rescue and adoption prep program within this effort to begin to help begin to fill the gaps in needed programming and services. This year approximately 9,000 animals in ABQ shelters will not receive the programming and services they need and deserve despite the city shelter having an annual budget of almost $10 million. The NMPA!/ABQPA! program hopes to change all this for the better, on behalf of our people and pets. Our program advocates for the systemic reforms needed to create positive changes for shelter pets in Albuquerque while simultaneously creating and delivering the rescue and life saving programming of the model/mentor programs of Austin Pets Alive!, the Nevada Humane Society and Aimee Sadler's Behavior and Training programs, specifically for pets in ABQ shelters. 

• We continued and grew our facebook crossposting and networking project ‘Save New Mexico Pets’ to help hundreds of lost and homeless and other New Mexico pets in need.

With your help, our adoption prep program will soon expand to include the establishment of some of the most needed programming and services for shelter pets today.  A large percentage of the treatable animals not making it out of NM shelters and into loving homes have been diagnosed with an infectious disease or labeled as a "behavior case" in our shelters where the lack of programming and services is causing the needless deaths of thousands of our companion animals every year.  From Austin Pets Alive!, we've learned how to save 85%+ of Parvo cases, 90%+ of URI cases, 100% of ringworm cases.  From Aimee Sadler's programming, we've learned how to save upwards of 97% of dog behavior cases.  This is the success rate our homeless pets in New Mexico deserve.  If you'll become a member today, at the most generous level you are able to, we will be able to deliver this expanded life saving programming in the near future via the expansion of our adoption prep programming.  Our lifesaving/adoption programs are some of the MOST COST EFFECTIVE in the state of NM. We model our programming on the most cost effective and successful (saving upwards of 97% of open-admission shelter intake) shelter programs in America.  We need your support to continue and to grow in efficiency and effectiveness. 

Our goal is to raise $350,000 where the overwhelming majority of our expenditure outlays are on direct programming for the animals in our care.  Please join us as a member today.  Your membership at any level will help us take that next step toward more progress and possibilities for NM shelter pets.  Their needs have been ignored for too long - they deserve adequate programming and services as soon as possible.
 
Please join us at one or more of the following membership levels:
 

Friend of NM Shelter Pets - $15/yr

Advocate for NM Shelter Pets - $30/yr

Changemaker for NM Shelter Pets - $50/yr

Angel for NM "Pit Bulls" - $75/yr

Dog and Cat Guardian - $100/yr

Constant Companion - $250/yr

Shelter Pet Angel - $500/yr

NM Shelter Pet Steward - $1,000/yr
 

On behalf of the shelter pets in our care and those to come and also our volunteers, we Thank You!!
 

 If you are unable to participate in one of the NMPA! upcoming events, please visit this link: http://eepurl.com/p2v4T ... How to Help NMPA! Growing Programs for NM Homeless Pets with 5 - 30 Minutes of Your Time (Click the link to open and view - click 'share' to re-post and help share this information with others - THANKS!)

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• RESCUE healthy + treatable pets out of cage/concrete enclosures and from the risk of being put down
  
• DE-STRESS/NORMALIZE rescued pets in home-like/day care environment to best prep them for adoption
• Deliver additional MEDICAL + BEHAVIORAL/TRAINING services when needed to help lay the foundation for adoption success
  
• ADOPTION DAY! (facilitated through our Petco adoption partnership)
  
• Follow up ADOPTION SERVICES for adopters and their new best friends

GOAL: YEAR 1 = 1,000 adoptions at below average cost of $350 per animal totaling $350,000

HOW TO HELP TODAY!

Click the Donate Now button on the top right-hand side of this page to make an online, tax-deductible donation or make your check payable to New Mexico Pets Alive! and mail in your donation amount to: NMPA, PO Box 25661, Albuquerque, NM  87125. Many volunteers are also needed.  Please click here to sign up to volunteer today.  THANK YOU!!

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New Mexico Pets Alive! (NMPA!) is a registered 501-c-3 non-profit organization in the State of NM.  Our mission is to help reduce the influx of lost and homeless pets arriving in New Mexico shelters while simultaneously helping to increase the health and live release rates of those companion animals ending up in our animal control and shelter systems. We wish our state of New Mexico to achieve the companion animal welfare success of many communities across America, now saving 90% - 98% of their lost and homeless pets.

NMPA! seeks out the most successful companion animal life-saving programming being implemented across the United States and we then promote and work to deliver that programming here within our state of New Mexico for the benefit of our people and our pets. Our current programs and those in development include: The LifeRaft Lodge, Albuquerque Pets Alive!, Santa Fe Pets Alive!, No Kill New Mexico, the annual Western States No-Kill Conference and Save New Mexico Pets.

Inspired by the past 10+ years of success of our neighboring states achieving No-Kill communities (saving all healthy and treatable companion animals entering animal control and private and municipal shelters - 90% to 98% of intake), we are embarking upon one the largest companion animal life-saving efforts in New Mexico's history.  With the help of some of the most successful veterinarians, behaviorists, rescue group and shelter leaders across North America, we are developing and delivering informational and programmatic resources to help New Mexico achieve this same level of success.

We need your help to deliver this information and programming to New Mexico for the benefit of New Mexico's companion animals, pet guardians and our communities as a whole.  NMPA! is currently an all volunteer run effort and we need your help to make the largest positive impact. You can volunteer, donate or become one of our future staff members to help us achieve success as quickly as possible.

Today, we are fortunate to now have more than 300 cities and towns, composing 90 economically, socially and culturally diverse communities across the United States who have achieved No-Kill success, with many more communities on the verge of doing the same.  There is nothing easy about what we are embarking upon but inspired by the work of the No Kill Advocacy Center and the No-Kill communities across the US, we are extremely grateful to be able to help duplicate the success of others rather than re-invent the wheel. Join us in helping to bring about needed positive changes for our people and our pets.

Help New Mexico Pets Alive! each time you shop at Albertsons!

Download our temporary Community Scan card below and use it each time you shop at Albertsons.  A portion of your purchase will help NM at-risk shelter pets in need via our current and developing programming.

THANK YOU!

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Click onto the image above and you'll be taken to our AdoptAShelter.com shopping page.  There is everything imaginable available there from airline tickets to Zappos shoes. Whatever you buy, a portion of EVERY purchase will be donated to NMPA!. Simply bookmark that page there and use it every time you shop.  THANK-YOU!!