Rescuing lives from the Vermilion Parish Rabies Animal Control and surrounding areas 4 paws at a time!
About Us
To date, Animal Aid for Vermilion Area (AAVA), a non profit 501(c)3 animal rescue organization established in 1995, located in South Louisiana, has helped rescue thousands of animals. AAVA has worked through numerous natural disasters, including hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the floods of August 2016. In the aftermath of Katrina, they helped unite people with their pets and saved cattle from drowning and starving.
AAVA also helped pass the Pet Evacuation Bill that keeps service animals and pets from being left behind during a disaster.
AAVA has been helping animals and their owners for over 20 years, and one of their goals is to rescue and rehome as many animals as possible from the local Animal Control facility, a kill facility with no adoption program.
Our Mission
One of our goals is to rescue and rehome as many animals as we can
from the local Animal Control facility, located in Kaplan, LA. How
is this situation different from any other town or parish/county
with animal control?
This facility is strictly about
animal and rabies control, this facility does
NOT have an adoption program to the public.
Thanks to an
agreement between the Parish and Animal Aid for Vermilion Area (AAVA), pets can
be "pulled" from the facility by 501(c)3 organizations. What
this means is that the lives of the pets in the
facility depend solely on animal welfare groups. If you are with a
rescue group, please consider helping us save these pets. AAVA simply
cannot handle the situation alone.
Many more pets would be housed in
other pounds with the same number of kennels but this facility is under an
older court order forbidding it from overcrowding. One
Dog Per Cage makes it even more urgent to pull pets from the
facility.
