Cottage Paws Rescue

01/04/2025

🚨COURTESY POST 🚨

We did a courtesy post back on December 27th for him.
He's still at the shelter and is declining.
This is ⚠️URGENT⚠️

PLEASE SHARE -
the right home 🏡 is out there for this guy. By sharing you can help him find it.

01/02/2025

♥️THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY IN A TOUGH MONTH♥️

We are extremely grateful for everyone that donated in December 🙏🏿
We know that December can be a very stressful month financially and we appreciate those that spared $5 and more to help.
Every $$ helps‼️There is strength in numbers and those $5 donations add up.
Thank you 🙏🏿 for your generosity ♥️
Animal Rescue🐾 for 2024 was not 🚫 an easy year.

Thank you 🙏🏿to our sponsors:
*Terra Firma Northern Landscaping
*Bath & Brush Boutique Dog Grooming
*Balicki Signs
*A Bushel & Peck Feed and Farm Store
*Greener Grass Lawn & Property Maintenance Inc
*Pet Valu - Parry Sound
*Pet Valu - Huntsville

Please consider supporting these businesses that support us.

To find out how your one time donation of $300 can make you a Cottage Paws Rescue 🐾 Sponsor please email us at: [email protected]

Thank you to those that donated in December :
Eryn Jagosky
Kathy Black
Shirley Hamilton
Daniel Chiantera
Ann Kekkonen & Jarmo Kontiainen
Jamie Seegmiller
Jeanette Kurtyka
Cecilia Landers
Andrew Balicki
Jennifer Beagan Alves
Louise Nicksy
Jennifer Knorr
Eryn Jagosky
Dianne Marshall
Yvonne Chennell
Faye Newton Bradt
Kim Hutcheson
Shepherd Winfield
Pet Valu - both Huntsville and Parry Sound stores

Thank you🙏🏿from the bottom of our hearts- we are truly grateful for your continued support.
We can't do this without YOU

12/31/2024

🙏🏿GIVING TUESDAY🙏🏿

On this LAST DAY OF THE MONTH and this LAST DAY OF THE YEAR, if you have $5 to spare we'd appreciate it to end off 2024 on a positive note 🎵.

2024 was a crazy, crazy, crazy year full of much heartache 💔in the rescue world 🌍 as the animal crisis caused by over breeding and the loneliness of COVID urged people who had no business getting animals🐾 to decide it was a good time to be a pet owner and then decided "oops, we aren't cut out for this" came to a head. We still are in that peak of that crisis and it doesn't seem to be getting any better😭

In order for us to continue to help, we need YOU.

We are truly grateful 🙏🏿for your continued support.
Every $1 counts and makes an impact and we appreciate it.

Donations can be made at :
[email protected]

Thank you ♥️

12/29/2024

If you are looking for a holistic approach to treating your dog 🐶, cat 🐈, horse 🐎 for behaviours such as anxiety, separation anxiety, relocation stress, noise induced stress and travel stress,
Join Dr Karen Becker this Sunday morning (December 29) at 10am ⏰
LIVE on her page below as she has an information session on the use of ashwagandha.
*If you can't make it for the live, you will be able to watch it afterwards on her Facebook

Heralded as the king of Ayurvedic herbs🫚, Ashwagandha is one of most revered adaptogenic herbs in the world and is best known for reducing cortisol levels 🌡️ and stress responses in humans. But did you know when it comes to your dog🐶, cat🙀, or horse🐴, it has also been clinically proven to reduce stress from:

🏠 separation anxiety
🏘️ relocation stress
🧨 noise induced stress (like firecrackers)
🚘 travel stress

According to the new Dog Aging study there ‘may be no such thing as a well-behaved dog, with over 99% of U.S. dogs reported to have moderate to severe behavior issues’, often with increased tension and stress during the holidays. Ashwagandha may help!

Join our Facebook Live here on my Dr. Karen Becker page, Sunday at 10am ET, where we’ll cover the latest science surrounding Ashwagandha’s health benefits in dogs and cats, including increased calmness, cognition, immune function, gut and joint health. We’ll cover how get this mighty herb into even the finickiest of pets (with optimal dosing🥄 recommendations, and what pets should not take this herb). See you LIVE, Sunday!

12/27/2024

⚠️COURTESY POST ⚠️
PLEASE SHARE
The more exposure and shares these 2 can get the better chances they have.

🆘 URGENT PLEASE READ & SHARE 🆘 AT RISK OF EUTHANASIA‼️

There are 2 dogs in two different shelters available for adoption to the public but are both declining in the shelter.

Both shelters desperately want to find them a home but nobody is stepping up! The unfortunate thing is if they keep declining the humane thing to do would be to put down which they do NOT want to do. These dogs are stressed and declining in shelter!

WE ARE CALLING ON TEAM SOCIAL MEDIA TO PLEASE SHARE THEM & SPREAD WORD SO THEY CAN BE ADOPTED AND REMOVED FROM SHELTER. EVERY RESCUE IS SLAMMED SO WE NEED THE PUBLIC TO STEP UP TO SAVE THEIR LIVES.

Power breed experience needed as these are big strong boys. Here is a link to each bio please read carefully and ONLY apply if you are serious. They have already been failed and need a solid home.

They need separate placements not together. They are in two different locations. We are just using our platform to beg for help to save them. PLEASE 🙏🏼

📍Moo cow - ADOPTED AT SHELTER 🥳
MOO COW - ▶️ https://www.facebook.com/share/153Yc8jKFs/?mibextid=wwXIfr

‼️Baaz is at risk & on borrowed time to scramble to get him help. ‼️
BAAZ - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/wMFAL7Fxt4HgZV7q/?mibextid=wwXIfr

This is not an open discussion for euthanasia in shelters in Ontario. THESE SHELTERS ARE BEGGING FOR HELP. WE NEED TEAM SOCIAL MEDIA TO SAVE THEIR LIVES!!! PLEASE🙏🏼 SHARE SHARE SHARE! If either are suitable for you and you have room… PLEASE STEP UP! The time is now!!!

12/25/2024

We would like to wish you a Merry Christmas 🎄 and wish you all a blessed day♥️
We feel incredibly blessed that we receive pictures on a regular basis from our wonderful fosters & adopters - we love ♥️seeing our animals and we know that you love the updates too ‼️
So here are a few pictures 📸 I have received over the last few days

Please feel free to add your own pictures 📸 in the comments below 👇
*we'd love to see them even if they aren't a cottage paws rescue animal

Thank you 🙏🏿for your continued support - we can't do this without YOU ♥️

Pictured📸below
Hank & Daisy
Noel
Bella
Ace
Toby
Goose
Sadie
Rosie & her new siblings
Alaska
PEEK
Jasmine
Pearl
Layla
Mitzi
Buddy
Norman

12/25/2024

♥️HAPPY GOTCHA DAY MIZRA♥️

This is not 🚫 a hard GOTCHA DATE to remember‼️
This girl was the last run before the Christmas break from a Quebec shelter.
MIZRA arrived at her new home 🏡 on Christmas eve🎄 which in itself was a huge ask of anyone. Pearl was up for the challenge and to save this sweet girl.
She was surrendered because of her allergies.
And who was going to walk into a shelter off the street and adopt a dog that was itchy as heck and could not 🚫 stop scratching 😭
So Mizra landed on the euthansia list quickly.
Thank you 🙏🏿to our Cottage Paws Rescue 🐾 Facebook community for sharing MIZRA far and wide and finding Pearl.
Thank you 🙏🏿Pearl for saving Mizra's life and working hard on solutions to get her allergies under control.

MIZRA is living her best life ♥️
Happy GOTCHA day sweet girl 🥰
Look at that smile 😁

12/23/2024

🎄WE ARE THANKFUL🎄
We would like to say thank you 🙏🏿 to our community for the ALL donations this month so far.
We know that December is a stressful month for most people and that funds are tight.
Every $$ counts.
Also a HUGE Thank you 🙏🏿 to everyone that donated on our past $5 Friday.
We thank you 🙏🏿, our current animals 🐾thank you and so do our future animals.
Merry Christmas 🎄 and thank you for your gifts this month.
We appreciate your continued support ❤️
We can't do this without YOU

December donors:
Eryn Jagosky
Kathy Black
Shirley Hamilton
Daniel Chiantera
Ann Kekkonen & Jarmo Kontiainen
Pet Valu Parry Sound & Huntsville locations
Jamie Seegmiller
Jeanette Kurtyka
Cecilia Landers
Andrew Balicki
Jennifer Beagan Alves
Louise Nicksy

12/20/2024

🎄$5 FRIDAY🎄

Every $1 counts for our animals - to help vetting the animals in our care, with training & boarding & assessment if necessary and with foster costs.
For those of you that have been following us for a period of time⏰, you will know that we have taken in some dogs🐕& cats🐈that have required some extensive vetting up and above the spay/neuter/vaccine costs$.
Even after these animals 🐾 are adopted and the adoption fees are paid (adoption fees don't even always cover the spay/neuter/vaccines) we are at a negative amount on the animal.
We have a large # of cats 🐈and dogs out there that are adopted and after the adoption fees were paid, we were still at a negative $100-$3000.

🎄This is where your donations come in. Your donations and our business sponsors and fundraising make up the deficits that are incurred.
To be a rescue right now in this animal crisis environment in ONTARIO is beyond stressful with daily requests with people asking to surrender their pets. ....and then add $$$$ that has to be put into these animals *if* we agree to take them on. Most aren't sterilized or up to date on vaccines.
EVERY rescue is struggling with this.

We are truly thankful 🙏🏿for your continued support ❤️
We know that times are tough but if you can spare $5 this holiday 🎄season, all of the $5 donations add up quickly and it would be greatly appreciated.
As the saying goes "there is strength in numbers"
We have auto deposit on our email money transfers to:
[email protected]

A HUGE THANK YOU 🙏🏿 to the following people that have donated in December :
Eryn Jagosky
Kathy Black
Shirley Hamilton
Daniel Chiantera
Ann & Jarmo Kekkonen
Pet Valu - Parry Sound & Huntsville locations

Every dollar counts.
Thank you for your continued support 🙏🏿

12/19/2024

🎄HOME FOR CHRISTMAS🎄

PEEK is adopted ❤️
Our beautiful green 💚 eyed boy just left his foster home 🏡 this afternoon to join his new family in time for Christmas 🎄

Thank you 🙏🏿Ann & Jarmo for giving this boy his happy ever after.
PEEK has been in foster for a very long time 😭and we are sooooo happy to see him go to what we think is the perfect match for this guy. His new mom and dad are both retired and they can't wait to dote on this green eyed guy.

Thank you 🙏🏿to his first foster mom Kate for fostering him and saving him from being euthanized at a Quebec shelter.
Thank you 🙏🏿to his second foster family Nancy & Al for welcoming Peek into your home and working so diligently with integrating him into your household and your other 2 cats. You did an awesome job.

Stay tuned for PEEK's official Adoption announcement but we were just so dang excited that we couldn't wait to tell you the good news ‼️

12/19/2024

🐾MEET OUR ADOPTABLE ANIMALS 🐾
Please consider adopting.

Sadie, Peek & Sepple have pending adoptions 🎉🎉🎉

We have had little to no inquires or applications for most of these guys 😭

*Questions ❓
Email us at :
[email protected]
*Individual Profiles can be found on Petfinder
*APPLY AT :
https://forms.gle/xGJtLaSiZnSDAxfV9

12/17/2024

THIS 👇
People need to know that this is OUR ONTARIO and OUR CANADA 🇨🇦

It's NOT 🚫 OPEN FOR DEBATE - it is happening EVERY DANG DAY.
Educate yourself and educate others.
We can argue all you want about it but this is happening in Ontario.
Very well said Fur Warriors.

What you don't see behind the scenes....
Today I have received one request to surrender a cat🐈and one to surrender a dog🐕‍🦺. The day isn't over yet so that # could change. There is rarely a day that will go by that someone doesn't message us to ask us to take an animal 🐾
We need to do better.
Please read the whole post and yes, it's an unpopular topic and I get it, it's way easier on your mental health when you don't know about it. But once you know about it and if you sit back and do nothing, then you are the problem.
How can you help ❓❓
✔️Foster
✔️Adopt from a rescue or a shelter
✔️Share posts when we post about our animals that are in need of finding homes 🏡
✔️Educate friends and family on what is happening in Ontario
✔️Now is not 🚫 the time to be surrendering your dog or cat because you feel you can't give them all the attention they need. How do you think they will fair in a shelter environment? Will they get more attention there? Will they even make it out?
Let's do better‼️

We shared a post yesterday from our friends at Travelling Tails K9 Rescue of a dog set for euthanasia in an overcrowded Ontario shelter that was suppose to be put down today. No extensions or exceptions the shelter was full!

People couldn’t handle an 8 month old puppy at risk, but there is younger and even litters who are at risk as age don’t matter. Even seniors who deserve a soft safe spot in their final days are at risk and they matter too! No age or breed is safe!!!!!

Thank you to everyone who shared or reached out to the rescue.

It was extremely sad to see more people arguing about shelter euthanasia, and shamming shelter staff instead of hearing the alarm, sharing , spreading awareness or offering to help. Time was not on this dogs side. While you all argued how sh*tty the shelter was you were wasting time to help save this precious soul. And if she was euthanized did you accomplish what you needed to do by keyboard slamming those trying their hardest to help?

People really struggle to understand that shelters euthanize no matter the age. If a city shelter has a contract to intake strays to keep the public safe… they have to BY LAW intake even when full. NO EXCEPTIONS. So if there is no space they have to make room for it. Public safety will always be first before anything! As it should!!!!

Most Shelters build relationships with rescues or other shelters so they can try to avoid dogs being put down, and ask for help before euthanasia. Shelters even transfer between shelters because nobody wants anyone to die. BUT EVERYONE IS PACKED LIKE A CAN OF SARDINES!!! The staff struggle when animals are put to sleep, and they carry that heartache daily.

The issue isn’t shelters euthanizing, the issue is the back door breeders pumping out animals when we are in an overpopulation pet crisis. On top of them allowing anyone to buy the animals because it’s about money, and more then half end up in the wrong hands or homes. The problem is grown adults impulse buying pets without researching then dumping at the first inconvenience. The problem is… lack of accountability of being responsible pet owners, and treating animals like toys instead of actual living beings.

The problem is NOT ethical breeders because you will never see their animals in a shelter as they stand behind their animals. They breed for the love of the breed, & to better the breed they choose to breed, for the best health & genetics. They don’t allow their animals to be sold to just anyone. Eithical breeders are very few nowadays but they still do exist. Just because an animal is purebred doesn’t mean it’s well bred or the breeder is ethical.

The problem is humans. Not shelters, not rescues trying to help, and not the vets who have to put the animals down because at least they were euthanized humanely instead of neglected, abused or left to survive on their own which can be fetal.

Your prayers in comments or arguing will not save a life when the dog is at risk.

The rescue wasn’t able to get a proper foster home they begged for… because people spent too much time arguing… but another rescue stepped in and saved her life. Because the only way we are going to be able to save lives is if WE WORK TOGETHER and stop shaming or pointing fingers. This is a real sad time to be an animal right now, as the world is failing them tremendously!

Be apart of the solution and not the problem!

12/16/2024

Cooper Alan's new song just released HOME FOR CHRISTMAS 🎄
Grab your tissues....
This is all any dog 🐕 wants for Christmas

12/16/2024

🎁I'M NOT SPOILED AT ALL 😹🎁

PARKER here.
I know I hit the jackpot with my mom & dad. I'm spending my second Christmas with them 🎄🎄and everyone says I have a weak heart and kidneys but I'm doin good.
I'm pretty spoiled and I know it 😺
But hey it sure beats being euthanized before my time. Yep, I was on one of those lists over in Quebec and my mom said she'd take me and give me a home 🏡

And here I am today with my own Christmas 🎄 stocking ‼️
My mom says that I am really my "dad's cat" because you can always find me snuggling with him....what she doesn't know is that I do this on purpose so that my mom spoils me more.
I'm not a stupid cat 😹
********************
Merry Christmas PARKER 🎅
We know that you are a good boy and Santa will definitely be filling that stocking ♥️
You deserve it sweet boy ‼️

12/15/2024

🩷PUPPY PICS - JUST BECAUSE🩷

Here's your Sunday smile 😁

It will be two weeks tomorrow (Monday) since this sister duo came to us.
They are alive today because Kassie reached out to us about them and from there in a matter of a few short hours ⏰Christine organized "operation save the puppies" with the help of Richard, Phil and Kassie all driving 🚗to get them to safety.

These two sisters are now thriving in their foster home 🏡 (Kassie was already an approved foster & she took them on)
EVIE has the dark ears and MEAH has the lighter coloured ears.
Their mom is a purebred boxer and it is believed that dad was a pure golden retriever.
These girls are 9 weeks old now and are thriving ♥️

12/15/2024

🎄ALLIE IS HOME 🏡 FOR CHRISTMAS🎄

Our Miss Allie arrived safe in her new home 🏡 in Ottawa yesterday. It was a very long anticipated day.
Her new mom Darien has been waiting for what seems like forever for this day.
First we had to wait for her tail amputation to heal and then our northern weather ❄️🌡️ played a part in coordinating all of this.

She's home 🏡, she's loved ♥️and she's snuggling and exploring her new home 🏡
Thank you 🙏🏿Eryn and Darien for making the long drive 🚗yesterday.
Thank you 🙏🏿Kathy for being such an amazing foster mom and nursing this girl back to health.
Thank you 🙏🏿to all of you that donated to her surgery-we can't do these things without you ♥️

We are so happy for Allie & Darien and that they will be spending this Christmas 🎄 together.
This wee girl known as the "cat with the 1/2 ripped off tail" that beebopped around Mactier for 6 months has hit the jackpot.
She's going to be spoiled this Christmas 🎁 and she soooooo deserves this ♥️

Allie's story 👇
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18V9MmqY2j/