Pause For Paws Animal Sanctuary

Pause for Paws is a nonprofit designed to prioritize the ethics of care over the efficiency of commerce. Our model is built on sustainability and transparency:

We focus on providing lifelong sanctuary for dogs who are overlooked or misunderstood. We develop ethical training alternatives that rely on partnership, not domination. We create educational outreach to communities about humane treatment and the importance of empathy in animal care. We maintain a small, high-impact team so that every donation goes directly to care, not bureaucracy.

Our next leap is an ambitious one: expanding our sanctuary to the White Mountains of Arizona, where more land means more lives saved.

Pause for Paws Animal Sanctuary wasn’t founded in a boardroom, it was born in a living room, built one rescue at a time by a family who simply couldn’t say no to a soul in need. Since 2005, dogs have been a constant presence in the McAllister home; every single one a rescue. Some were abandoned, some were abused, others forgotten, but each was welcomed as family. At first, it felt like compassion. Eventually, it became a calling.