PAWS of Coronado — the Pacific Animal Welfare Society — has operated the Coronado Animal Care Facility under contract with the City of Coronado since the nonprofit's founding in 2003, running the island's only municipal shelter and animal control intake point from a facility on the 92118 side of Naval Air Station North Island. The shelter takes in stray, surrendered, and injured animals found anywhere on Coronado Island, from the Orange Avenue village corridor and the residential blocks surrounding Hotel Del Coronado to the Silver Strand beach approach and the Coronado Cays waterfront community at the island's southern tip. Adopted animals receive a veterinary transition plan coordinated with Coronado Veterinary Hospital at 150 Orange Avenue — the island's longest-operating animal hospital, in continuous practice since the 1940s — ensuring every placement leaves the facility with vaccinations, microchipping, and spay or neuter surgery completed before handoff. PAWS fundraising drives, including an annual gala and recurring adoption events staged at Spreckels Park and the Coronado Ferry Landing bayfront, sustain the shelter's operating budget independently of city general-fund appropriations, a financial model that keeps the 92118 facility staffed for after-hours emergency intakes and weekend adoption walks along Orange Avenue. Foster-home placements for animals requiring behavioral rehabilitation or medical recovery before adoption rotate through a network of Coronado Island volunteers, many of them military families stationed at Naval Air Station North Island whose PCS timelines create both intake surges and foster availability cycles unique to this base-adjacent community. The nonprofit's community footprint extends to the island's social calendar, with charity nights hosted at McP's Irish Pub on Orange Avenue drawing the Navy SEAL community and Coronado residents for fundraising events that sustain the shelter's spay-neuter subsidy program. PAWS also administers Coronado's lost-and-found animal database, the first point of contact for residents and Coronado Beach visitors reporting found pets anywhere within the 92118 ZIP code boundaries.