It can get cold outside, but you can warm your inside...
SPONSOR A SHELTER PET!
It can get cold outside, but you can warm your inside...
SPONSOR A SHELTER PET!
Care they need.
Love they deserve.
YOUR SUPPORT MAKES IT ALL POSSIBLE.
Please help the pets in our care and make a tax-deductible gift today...
This year has been another extremely challenging year for us. The shelter has been near or at full capacity for the last three years, and there’s no end in sight. While Connecticut continues to navigate a shelter crisis, AWS is committed to doing our part by focusing on helping with local needs... Learn more
ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY
A Refuge Since 1965
8 DODD ROAD
NEW MILFORD CT 06776
Tel (860) 354-1350
Sunday & Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 11 am-7 pm
Wednesday-Saturday: 11 am-2 pm
Non-monetary donations/items can be left at the front door 24/7 for your convenience - thank you!
Join us on Saturday, January 25th at 7:00pm for an exciting evening of ice hockey as the Danbury Hat Tricks take on the Watertown Wolves. AWS will receive a generous 50% of ticket sales by using promo code AWSNM during checkout. Click here to purchase tickets.
FIRST SAT-SUN OF MONTH
10 AM - 2 PM
Petco, 169 Danbury Rd, New Milford
Meet
with us and a few of our cats at Petco! AWS representatives will be
there to answer your questions, and introduce you to some of our feline
friends.
TO BENEFIT AWS 2025
Did you know that you can help AWS with your recyclable bottles and cans at New Milford Recycling Center? Simply put your empty bottles and cans in a kitchen/garbage bag, place a designated AWS-Sticker on the bag and drop off at NM Recycling. The proceeds will be be deposited directly to our AWS account and will assist in the cost of care for our pets. Stickers are available at the Shelter and New Milford Recycling. Directions: New Milford Recycling
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The Shelter is self-supporting and depends on the generosity of our friends, volunteers and benefactors to continue to serve our local communities.
Our shelter and the services we provide our animals are solely dependent upon the concern and generosity of the people and businesses in our community. We do not receive any public funds. We place many dogs and cats over the course of a year, but many more are waiting for the opportunity to come to our shelter. We encourage you to learn more about our organization, mission, work, shelter activities, as well as how you can help make it all possible through your membership, financial donations, sponsorship and volunteer support.
The Animal Welfare Society, Inc. (AWS) was founded in 1965 as an independent, non-profit, non-destroy animal rescue organization. Our mission is to offer refuge to homeless and abandoned dogs and cats and place them in loving, responsible homes.
