Organization

Who Is Barrio Dogs? Barrio Dogs is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization based in Houston, Texas with emphasis on education and raising awareness on proper animal care in the low income communities. Because there is a huge animal overpopulation problem in these inner city communities more emphasis on spay and neutering is vital.

First, the Barrio Dogs Youth Program provides visits to elementary, middle and high schools featuring educational presentations, bilingual literature, guest speaker discussions, and occasional visit by a rescued and rehabilitated dog. Also Barrio Dogs Tales to Tails reading program helps children increase their confident and fluency in reading through one-on-one story telling sessions with a Rescue Education Ambassador Dog (R.E.A.D).

Second, the Barrio Dogs Therapy Program that involves healthy, gentle-natured rescue dogs giving back by visiting area nursing homes, children’s homeless shelters, and hospitals to bring comfort and encouragement to people in need.

Third, the Barrio Watch Dog Program will empower these residents and children’s thinking in these low income areas that animal neglect and abuse is a crime. Our hopes with the Barrio Watch Dog Program is to transform the ignorance and to educate that it is not the norm to see a dog chained up to a tree, animals locked in kennels or that dog fighting is allowed.

Fourth, the Barrio Dogs for Better Communities which is dedicated to creating possibility and providing opportunity for a better quality animal life in these low income areas. There are proven cases that there is love for these animals but residents may not have the means for proper animal care, nor the education.

Finally, the sad reality is the rescue work is inevitable because there are so many homeless animals out there being neglected and abused. But if we all work together and support this mission of educating and transforming inner city low income communities like these, the homeless rescues will not be at an all-time high.