We’re not just here to rescue, we’re here to reform. 🐾
The PAW POLICY PROJECT is a nonprofit organization driven by compassion and committed to action. While we rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home vulnerable animals, our mission reaches far beyond emergency care, it’s about transforming the system that continues to fail them.
We’re here to challenge the root causes of animal suffering, not just respond to the aftermath. That means confronting the industries, practices, and policies that allow cruelty, neglect, and exploitation to continue in plain sight. From shutting down backyard breeders and puppy mills to advocating for mandatory spay/neuter laws, licensing for ethical breeding, and felony-level penalties for abuse, our work is focused on real, enforceable change.
We’re building a movement that blends grassroots rescue with legislative reform, because the two are deeply connected. Every animal we save reminds us of the thousands still waiting, still suffering, because the laws are too weak or too late.
We’re also committed to education and community engagement. By empowering individuals to speak up, report abuse, and demand better from their leaders, we’re creating a culture of accountability, where compassion isn’t optional, and cruelty isn’t tolerated.
At the PAW POLICY PROJECT, we believe that rescue is just the beginning. Justice is the goal.
And we won’t stop until animals across this country are treated with the dignity, safety, and respect they deserve, not just in our hearts, but in our laws.
Founder ~ Jennifer Young 🐾
Jennifer Young
Founder | Rescuer | Animal Advocate
Jennifer Young has spent the last 26 years rescuing animals others left behind. From highways to shelters, she’s helped save, rehabilitate, and re-home over two thousand dogs and animals, many sick, injured, or forgotten. What started as a personal mission quickly became a lifelong calling.
With a deep network of fosters, transporters, and like-minded rescuers, Jennifer has worked tirelessly to give animals a second chance and a voice. Her hands-on experience in the field fuels her passion and drives the rescue side of the nonprofit to this day.
Meet Caroline
Survivor | Healer | Ambassador for Kindness
She came to me as a foster when she was just barely a year old, emaciated, terrified, and locked in a crate with her eight puppies. She had been horribly neglected and abused. Six of her puppies didn’t survive. I was able to foster the remaining two and find them loving homes, but Caroline never left, she became part of our family. Today, she’s the official mascot of All Things Rescue. Her journey hasn’t been easy, four surgeries and thousands of dollars in medical care later—but she is thriving. She started at just 21 pounds, and now she’s a healthy 55, full of life and love. Despite everything she endured, she is the gentlest, kindest soul I’ve ever met, a living, wagging reminder of what resilience and happiness look like.