Los Alamos Friends of Shelter and Companion Animals
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Since 1999, Los Alamos Friends of Shelter and Companion Animals LAFOSCA (Formerly Los Alamos Friends of the Shelter LAFOS) has provided canine and feline foster homes, funding for catastrophic animal medical care and our spay/neutering program.
The redefined focus of LAFOSCA is exclusively on assisting privately owned companion animals and their families and private rescue organizations, including groups such as NM Dog, Stray Hearts, Dew Paws Rescue, McKinley County Animal Rescue, and Otero County Animal Rescue and many, many more!
While we are unable to take in animals, assistance of information is provided in animal re-homing and adoptions.
Assistance provided to private rescue groups and privately
owned companion animals is the priority of LAFOSCA’s work.
Our work alongside shelters and rescue organizations of
Northern New Mexico will help reduce the population of
homeless and at-risk companion animals by providing
assistance directly.
2026 Dog Jog Coming April 25
Register before April 5 for discounts!
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This is last year's logo winner Gracie with her helper, Rosie.
2026 Dog Jog Logo Winner
The winner of this year’s Dog Jog logo contest is Peter Bakasi, a talented Pinon sixth grader who produced a sweet and imaginative drawing showing a happy pup getting ready to take part in the Dog Jog. His drawing will be the official logo for this year’s Dog Jog event and he will receive a free t-shirt featuring his artwork. The winners are chosen on the basis of artistic merit, creativity and originality.
This year we received a record number of entries and the selection process was very challenging. There were so many wonderful drawings that we had a very hard time deciding who would be the winner! We really appreciate all the young artists who sent us their imaginative designs and wish we could recognize everybody. We greatly encourage our younger artists to submit entries again next year.
The other young artists recognized this year include our 2nd place winner, Abby Brown, and a three-way third place tie with Emma Mendoza, Miller Gauss, and Emma Fuentes, and 4th place went to Arya Santhi. Honorable mentions go to entries from Heather Gauss, Harper Clark, Calvin Clark, Goldie Church, Levi Gardiner and Elke Klagmann. Again, we want to thank all of our young artists for their talent and enthusiasm.
In the meantime, please enjoy this picture of Peter and his lovely pup Luna.
At the August 8th, 2017 Los Alamos County Council meeting, Los Alamos Friends of the Shelter was presented a Notice of Special Recognition for all the work that has been accomplished since 1999.
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