Meet Kevin: Passionate Animal Welfare Advocate & DPA Board Member
For the past five years, Kevin Kirksey has been deeply involved with Dallas Pets Alive, driven by the unwavering passion of the organization’s Executive Director, Leslie, for animal welfare. Inspired by Leslie’s dedication, Kevin made the decision to join the board, where he has contributed to the mission of saving and improving the lives of animals in need.
Meet the Dogs Inspiring Change in the Youth Residents at the BARK Dorm
The Texas Juvenile Justice Department’s ‘BARK Dorm’, or the Building Attachment and Resilience K-9 program, launched in mid-2023. It is the first of its kind in the juvenile system, and Dallas Pets Alive’s newest partnership within the Positive Alternatives to Shelter Surrender (PASS) program. Families undergoing situations of extreme hardship often need support in finding […]
Dogs Transforming the Lives of Youth Offenders
Dallas Pets Alive (DPA) recently partnered with Texas Juvenile Justice Department’s BARK program at Gainesville State School, providing the young residents there with a warm and furry opportunity to help support dogs in need of temporary foster care and helping DPA extend fostering help to people with acute needs. This collaboration is creating a three-fold […]
Mya’s Story: Resilience & Recovery with Support from PASS and Dogs Matter
Gentle senior pup Mya’s owner was entering recovery — but during her temporary foster stay, Mya would soon find herself in need of some medical treatment of her own. When a small bump on her lower lip began to rapidly grow, our teams worked quickly to get Mya the life-saving care she needed. How Mya […]
PASS played a crucial role in reuniting Daisy with her family
Daisy’s family found themselves in hard times, and struggling to find housing. As a family of 3, with a young child (and one on the way), they were not eligible to enter the Bridge, the only homeless shelter in Dallas with a kennel for dogs. Daisy’s family was doing everything possible to keep her safe […]
DPA!’s Pawesome Person: May Volunteer Spotlight
Shelbye is the breath of fresh air I needed for the PASS program. She volunteered and worked while in college at Texas A&M with animals, so her backgroud peeked my interest in her immediately, but her passion for saving animals really made me want her on the team. PASS is a program that is so new and complex, that its hard for some to conceptualize but Shelbye just got it and she has ran with it ever since. Her organization and compassion for people and their pets is exactly what I needed in this role. The PASS line can be hard to volunteer for, there are very few solutions out there to help people and their pets but Shelbye always takes the opportunity to make individual email responses to people, people she will never see. Her customer service to citizens in need and her organization have taken the PASS line, to where it should be. I am so happy to have her on the PASS team!
Dallas Pets Alive! Receives Best Friends Animal Society Grant To Help Families Keep Their Pets
Dallas Pets Alive! received a grant from national animal welfare organization Best Friends Animal Society. The grant is for a program designed to help families keep their pets when medical or behavioral issues could result in the pet being relinquished.