Peewee's Pet Adoption World and Sanctuary, Inc. is a 501©3 non-profit organization established in 1995. The Humane Society of the United States estimates that 6 to 8 million dogs and cats end up in shelters each year and that nearly 4 million of them are euthanized. Corpus Christi Animal Control takes in thousands of pets each year. The majority of these homeless animals end up euthanized as very few are claimed or adopted, and we are doing everything we can to get ahead of the overpopulation problem. Our mission is to be a true no-kill animal sanctuary for abandoned pets, providing all medical and physical needs while attempting to place them in new, loving homes. The shelter is located on a 4½ acre tract that was donated to Peewee's in 2002 and lies just outside of the Corpus Christi city limits. Our shelter hours are 10 am to 5 pm seven days a week. The facility maintains a Board of Directors, which meets regularly and supervises the policy of everyday operations. Peewee's strongly enforces a true no-kill shelter environment. Sick animals are treated, and veterinary care is sought as necessary. All animals are vaccinated, spayed, and neutered upon entry into the shelter. They are also placed on heartworm prevention as well as flea and tick prevention. Peewee's currently houses about 350 animals.

Adoption Program: Potential adopters are screened to make sure they can provide a safe, loving, permanent home for the pet. We also transfer them out to many other partner organizations on the upper East and West coasts who can usually find wonderful homes for them in a very short time. Through our adoption program, we can help families obtain a healthy pet with all medical needs already taken care of including spaying/neutering. This will help bring down the stray population, create a happy pet, and give the adopter a new healthy family member. The medical work we provide to each animal would easily cost a family $300-$400 dollars at retail veterinarian prices. At a cost to us of only $50 each, the animals get spayed/neutered, vaccinated, dewormed, checked/treated for heartworms, teeth cleaned, hernias repaired, and deciduous teeth, dewclaws, and tumors removed. For every animal we receive and eventually place, we help 1) the pet itself, 2) the person who found/brought us the pet, 3) the community where the stray pet was roaming, and 4) the family who adopts the pet. Completing over 26,000 placements since our inception, one can see the immense number of lives affected, animal and human, but there is still much work to be done. We are aiming for 2,600 placements in 2021!

Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Program: We opened Madison's Clinic, our new on-site spay/neuter clinic for the needy public, in March of 2015. This would allow us not only to care for and spay/neuter animals brought to our facility, but will provide low/no cost spaying/neutering services on a large scale to people who otherwise would not fix their pets. Our prices are among the lowest of any low-cost spay/neuter clinic in town. The prices for people in need would be as follows: Male cats are $35, and female cats are $45. Male dogs are $55-$100, and female dogs are $65-$120, dependent on weight. With grants, we are able to offer free spay/neuter to people who are on any kind of public assistance.

Transfer In Program: We collaborate with several municipal animal control facilities extending through eight surrounding counties, including City Animal Controls in Kingsville, Ingleside, and Portland, Texas. We take pets from these municipalities that do not have any other no-kill shelters in their area and therefore, we are saving these animals from certain euthanasia.

Feral Cat Trap and Release Program: We collaborate with local schools, apartment complexes, businesses, and private individuals in our Trap and Release Program by loaning out humane traps so people can catch the feral cats and get them fixed through us for a minimal cost. If allowed, they release the cats back to where they came from, and if not, they can relocate the whole colony someplace else.

Educational Program: We educate the public on the proper care of animals, their medical requirements, and general pet information at the shelter, public events, and our newsletter, which is distributed to 3,500 families quarterly.