Liz Longworth has worked at PAWS since May of 2000 as the Shelter's Foster Care Coordinator. Liz worked at a pet store before coming to PAWS so she already knew how to educate people on proper care for their animals.

It's a demanding job being in charge of all the young orphans and sick animals coming into the Shelter. Liz helps the tiny bottle feeder babies (they may be only three days old), feeding them every 2-4 hours with a little bottle filled with a special kitten formula called KMR (kitten milk replacer), she helps them go potty and keeps them warm and clean in absence of their mother. Liz also spends a lot of time on the phone making calls to foster parents trying to place any cats, kittens, puppies and the occasional dog. These foster parents provide a temporary home where they can become old enough for their spay or neuter surgeries, become healthy and gain social skills they need to be adopted into permanent loving homes. While animals are waiting for their new foster care or new home Liz provides all the food, litter, love and tenderness that they need.

Liz loves working at PAWS because the people are so compassionate towards animals and she is constantly surrounded by a wonderful support team. Liz goes home every day knowing that she helped save at least one life that day. What a great feeling!!!! Liz has always hoped to find a position in the world that would make a very big difference - she has found that at PAWS!!!

Liz has many rewarding experiences working at PAWS and she wanted to share one of those happy endings, " The most interesting animal I have ever met was a cat named Heidi. She came to paws looking well, awful. We thought a car had hit her. She was dirty, missing an eye; her right side was completely deformed. It was determined by our Veterinarian that she was born this way. Even some of her insides were not shaped correctly! She was adopted by a paws Volunteer and he tells me all the time about how she uses her oddly shaped right paw to 'bat' at things in the air! She is finally in a place where she is accepted and loved."

Liz continues, "I have watched thousands of animals come to paws lost and forgotten and I have seen them all go to new homes where they can stay forever. That is the most rewarding thing I could ever ask for!"