P.A.W.S., Pets Are Working Saints, is a ministry which offers non-professional, pet-facilitated therapy. What this means is that trained volunteers take pets into local rehabilitation centers, retirement homes, and therapeutic childcare centers to spend time with residents.
P.A.W.S. was started in 1989 and has grown to a group of 120 active volunteers who make regular monthly visits to area residential facilities. These volunteers are trained and the temperament of their pets evaluated to be sure that the animal will be confortable in different situations and that it can be confidently handled by the owner.
Through the years there are many things we have accomplished using our beloved animals. 
dsmith1@elmore.rr.com
(334)514-6187
For more information about
PAWS at Frazer contact
Doug Smith
Volunteer Coordinator
We have been able to expose disabled children and adults to different textures, sounds and visual pleasures.
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We have taught children gentleness and sometimes bravery.
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People have strengthened their eye-hand coordination skills and use both large and small muscles when playing with or stroking the animals.
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We have provoked memories in those who need to remember.
Bringing animals to those who need the stimulation and warmth is an important ministry. Below are several informational pieces that we would love to share with you along with an application to join our group. Click on the name of the document to download it. After printing the form or saving the form to your computer click the back button in your browser to come back to this page.
Animal Application and Temperament Test Form (for you and your pet to be a part of PAWS)
"But now ask the beasts and let them teach you, and the birds of the air and let them tell you. Or speak to the earth and let it teach you. And let the fish of the sea recount to you. Which among these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this, in whose hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all human beings."
Job 12:7-10