About Us

Monroe County's Only Animal Shelter

"Bringing New Hope to Monroe County's

Homeless Animals"

Animal Welfare Society of Monroe (AWSOM) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

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About Us

MISSION STATEMENT

The Animal Welfare Society of Monroe (AWSOM) seeks to accommodate Monroe County’s stray, homeless, neglected or abused animals. Our shelter takes in all companion animals and, with the assistance of rescue and foster organizations, veterinary services and pet behaviorists, evaluates and cares for each on a case-by-case basis. Our adoption program links up pets with loving families. We strive to end the pet overpopulation problem that leads to abuse and neglect with our spay/neuter program. We foster enriching relationships between people and animals through education and advocacy while setting a positive example for a humane path toward life. We are forging a new lifesaving consensus of hope in Monroe County that rejects the unnecessary killing of homeless animals.

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Where would you go if you were lost and scared with nowhere to turn? If you were a homeless pet looking for shelter in Monroe County the last few months, you'd be out of luck...UNTIL NOW! The luck of Monroe's needy animals is changing. We are the Animal Welfare Society of Monroe (AWSOM), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and we're here to help. AWSOM is made up of Monroe County Volunteers - your neighbors, friends and co-workers. We came together because we saw the desperate need for an animal shelter in our area. We've come together because we care. Now that we have opened the shelter on Godfrey Ridge Drive in Stroudsburg we need supplies, volunteers and of course funds. But we're not stopping there. Our next goal is to realize the dream of a Monroe Spay and Neuter clinic. The most humane thing we can do for homeless animals is to reduce their numbers, and that starts with spay and neuter.