Lucky Paws

Lucky Paws is an adoption center for the City of Albuquerque’s animal welfare department. I think it is wonderful because they have created a pet store environment where you can adopt a pet in need of a forever home. Being an adoption center comes with many benefits: the fees are very reasonable (better than the City of Rio Rancho, Humane Society and many other smaller rescue organizations), the animals are spayed or neutered, microchipped, and have their first round of shots. When you adopt here they give you a list of vets that will check your pet for free within the first week or so of adopting.
As this is an adoption center there are also some downsides, the primary one being selection. They may not always have the exact pet that you are looking for and you may need to come back a couple of times to find the right pet but it is well worth the wait to find the perfect pet, and you are adopting an animal in need! Now that we have adopted several pets I have to avoid Lucky Paws because I really want to save all of the animals that they have, but I definitely recommend checking this place out, as well as the larger East Side adoption center if you are looking for a pet, as they have so many wonderful animals that need homes.

Our lives have been recently changed by a sweet little ball of fluff from Lucky Paws! Sure, he is a bit wild and crazy, but when he spontaneously falls asleep on your lap after franticly trying to kill the little nip filled lizard you bought at Clark’s, you know he is a keeper.
We visited Lucky Paws at the mall (Coronado Center, near «Boot Barn») a few times before adopting our little kitten. The location is a service of the animal welfare department and offers up a range of pets needing forever home from the city shelters. We were helped by a very friendly and caring employee, she went above and beyond helping us with our kitten search. The nice thing about this adoption center is all the pets are cleared for immediate adoption, meaning, they have shots, are compliant with city rabies requirements etc.
I was surprised with the amount of traffic coming thru the place, I am not a mall goer and it was nice to see how many people were in looking for pets or just admiring. I wonder how many pets get adopted from here. Lucky Paws is a great city service!