Founded in 1997, PAWS (Pets Are Worth Saving) is Chicago's largest no-kill humane organization, with a mission of reducing the number of homeless pets in Chicago. PAWS envisions a no-kill Chicago -- a city in which no pets are destroyed just because they are homeless. PAWS saves dogs and cats through innovative adoption programs, cageless Cat Adoption Center, and the Lurie Family Spay/Neuter Clinic--Chicago's only high-volume, free/low-cost clinic located in the neighborhoods that that have the highest volume of stray and unwanted pets.