Cottage Paws Rescue

01/31/2025

♥️$5 FRIDAY ♥️

Every dollar $ helps our animals 🐾
We appreciate your support 🙏🏿 and we can't do this without YOU 💗

Donations can be made to:
[email protected]

01/29/2025

♥️HAPPY GOTCHA DAY LOWA ♥️
(Finn)

It's been one year since this boy made his way to his new home 🏡 from a shelter in Quebec.
He was slated for euthansia due to space and thanks 🙏🏿 to YOU (our Cottage Paws Rescue 🐾 Facebook community) he was shared and you found us Katie ♥️
Thank you 🙏🏿Katie for stepping up and saving this guy and giving him his happy ever after 🏡.
Thanks 🙏🏿 to all of you Lowa was not 🚫 a 🇨🇦euthanasia statistic for 2024.
He was one of the lucky ones.
We are thrilled that he is living his best life♥️

01/27/2025

🚨ADOPTION NEWS🚨

ISMO (formerly Peek) is officially adopted❤️
Our green 💚 eyed boy (it's hard to see on the pictures but this boy has the biggest most brilliant greenest eyes) is living his best life in his new home 🏡 with Ann & Jarmo.
We would be lying if we said he wasn't spoiled 😆 Ismo has been sleeping in bed 🛏️ with them since the day they brought him home 🏡 and Jarmo has been busy in his workshop making this boy toys!

Why the new name ISMO❓
Ann & Jarmo lost their senior cat a while back. They both were devastated but Ann was feeling like she was missing a cat in her life and even though she still was mourning the passing of their previous cat, she felt she wanted to honour him by giving a needed home to another life.
ISMO translates to "God heals" and ISMO is healing their broken 💔 hearts with his antics and quirky personality. This boy is personality plus and craves being with his people.

Thank you 🙏🏿to his foster Kate who stepped up and saved Peek from euthansia and thank you 🙏🏿Nancy & Al who welcomed Peek into their home and fostered Peek when Kate couldn't any longer do so.
FOSTERING SAVES LIVES ‼️
You have both been an intricate part of Ismo's journey to where he is today.

Thank you 🙏🏿to our Cottage Paws Rescue 🐾 Facebook community for sharing our posts and being instrumental in saving his life and also Ismo's adoption.

We are so happy for you ISMO ❤️and can't wait to see your new adventures in your forever home 🏠.
Thank you Ann and Jarmo for choosing this guy to heal your hearts 🥰.

01/27/2025

❤️THANK YOU❤️

We would like to say a HUGE thank you 🙏🏿for the donations so far this month.
December and January we have been slammed with unexpected vet bills 😭
Your donations are what keep us going. We know that times ⏰are tough and we appreciate that you choose to support our animals🐾
Every single $ dollar counts and helps the animals ❤️
Any and every amount counts❤️
Thank you 🙏🏿for your continued support.

Thank you for donating this month:
Eryn Jagosky
Nancy Beers
Pauline Mason
Karen Gait
Jody Shaw
Shelley Keller
Elaine Duchaine
Doris Sands
Cecilia Landers
Eryn Jagosky
Kim Hutcheson
Jennifer Knorr
Shepherd Winfield
Jennifer Knorr
Yvonne Chennell

01/26/2025

🚨COURTESY POST 🚨
Please read the post below 👇
If you are interested in this boy - please contact One Paw At A Time Animal Rescue directly.
Thank you 🙏🏿 for saving this guy
Let's get him a home 🏡

01/24/2025

🚨$5 FRIDAY 🚨
If you can help, please do :)
We have had a lot of unexpected expenses and vet bills the last few months that we still need to cover.
Each and every $5 donation helps and is greatly appreciated 🙏🏿
Please donate at :
[email protected]

01/24/2025

🚨GOOSE UPDATE 🚨
Here is what has happened in the last 2 weeks since Goose came to Parry Sound.
I've been calling him Joey the last week.

*This is a very honest post, so please bear with me.

Goose is a tail pull kitty 🐈 that we pulled from a Quebec shelter at the young age of 8 weeks. He was going to be euthanized. He most likely was picked up by the tail and it caused his nerve endings at the base of his tail to become disconnected. The shelter named him Malibu.
He arrived to us February 3rd 2024 so he's almost been here a year with our rescue.
Our Facebook community shared the heck out of him and YOU found us Jessica. Jessica had to learn how to manually express his bladder and she learned absolutely everything that she possibly could about tail pull kitties and treatments that may help him. Goose has been to several different kinds of treatments with some improvement. Jessica was an amazing foster mom for this little guy and she was exactly what he needed to get a great start in life. We are forever grateful 🙏🏿 for all that she has done for him.
*Goose is a little different than most tail pull kitties because he can walk and most can't walk at all. Their back legs don't work.
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Goose arrived to me right when my father was being put in palliative care and my stress levels were extremely high due to that personal situation.
Jessica his foster mom spent 3 hours with me giving me the low down on Goose and of course showing me how to manually express his bladder. It has to be done 2-3 times a day. It looked very easy and I'd been watching gazillion videos on YouTube too. Jessica left and then of course I couldn't get it to work😭. A few trips were made to the vet for help on "how to". Goose wasn't impressed with me either. It was like he knew that this new strange lady didn't know what she was doing 🤷
Animals definitely pick up on our energy. Thank you to Cottage Country Animal Clinic for being so patient with me and giving me lessons. Also thank you Port Hope Emergency vet for your advice.
Thank you Jessica for talking me through it. And a huge thank you 🙏🏿to One Paw At A Time Animal Rescue for the talks and advice- they have rescued a few kitties 🐈 just like Goose but their rescues couldn't walk and these guys went on to find their forever homes and lived their best lives. She encouraged me and told me that I could do this.
GOOD NEWS 🎉I figured it out after 3 days ‼️
GOOSE & I figured out our groove together and what works. Goose now puts his paws up on my shoulders when I'm expressing him and he purrs ....yes he purrs. I guess he's a bit of a weirdo 😆
Those 3 days where I couldn't figure it out seemed like an eternity!
I also joined a Facebook group with thousands of members that ALL have kitties like Goose - some can walk, most don't have the use of their back legs, some need diapers, some don't, some need to be manually expressed and others don't. It's an amazing supportive group.
This was very much a group effort - it took a village to talk and encourage me through manually expressing a tail pull kitty's bladder.
I'm not 🚫 going to lie - there were tears but we got through it Goose and I. The frustration (in myself) for not being able to figure it out was very short lived. I felt I should have been able to figure it out right away and I know I put a lot of pressure on myself.
With all the words of encouragement and advice we got through it. Thank you 🙏🏿everyone.
I absolutely adore this little guy 💞

🩶I've started calling him JOEY🩶
It seems to suit him well.
He honestly is the sweetest boy and loves lying on my chest and giving my face nudges and kisses. He walks, runs, jumps and plays. He has a bit of a weird gait but it doesn't stop him at all. Other than having to express his bladder, he's a totally normal kitty.
He's a handsome dark gray 🩶 boy. He's also not a big cat at all- hes pretty tiny . He's about a year old and I doubt he will grow much more.

I just wanted to give you all an update on "JOEY " and tell you my brutally honest experience taking him on. This was a new experience for me. It took 3 days for us to get in our groove and figure out what worked.
He is settling in nicely and this handsome dude deserves his forever home 🏡. I'm so thankful 🙏🏿that we were able to save him. He deserves so much ❤️

⚠️We need some help⚠️
This guy requires more cloth diapers so that I don't have to do his laundry 🧺 every day. He only has 4 that I'm rotating
Size medium on Amazon - cost is $24.99 plus tax
He also could use the diaper liners cost is $30.99 plus tax on Amazon for regular size.
If anyone can help with that, it would be greatly appreciated 🙏🏿
Email money transfers can be sent to :
[email protected]
Thank you 🙏🏿

01/22/2025

01/21/2025

💗BECOME A COTTAGE PAWS RESCUE SPONSOR 💗

WHY❓
To continue to allow us to keep helping animals🐾 in our own community and surrounding communities in Ontario
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WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU❓
It's a one time donation.
We will post 1x per month thanking you for being a sponsor and our sponsors are always pinned to the top of our page.
We also will post your business 2-3 times each month in our Facebook stories. Your business will get exposure as well as you will be known for helping our animals 🐾
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HOW MUCH DOES IT COST❓
It's a one time donation of $300.
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If you are interested in becoming a Cottage Paws Rescue 🐾 Sponsor or have additional questions, please email us at: [email protected]
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We thank 🙏🏿and appreciate our current sponsors :
*Greener Grass Lawn&Property Maintenance INC
*Balicki Signs
*Pet Valu - Parry Sound, Huntsville, Gravenhurst & Bracebridge stores
*A Bushel & a Peck Feed and Farm Store
*Bath & Brush Boutique Dog Grooming
*Terra Firma Northern Landscaping

01/20/2025

🚨ADOPTION NEWS🚨

EVIE is ADOPTED 🎉🎉🎉

Please note that Evie's sister Meah is still in her foster home 🏡 and we posted about her being unwell at the end of last week-thank you🙏🏿to all that donated-we are still short $250 for that vet bill. These two sisters look a lot alike so just clarifying.

EVIE & MEAH came to us after an urgent plea that these 2 x 6 week old puppies were in danger of being dumped. Unfortunately, this is the new "normal" all over Ontario 😭
Litters of puppies are being dumped because people that are backyard breeding are quickly discovering that people just aren't buying puppies right now. We are in an ANIMAL CRISIS right now. For the love of dog DO NOT BREED your dog. GOOD dogs are losing their lives every single day across Ontario in shelters simply to make more space for more surrenders. Hard decisions are being made at shelters because of our throw away society and lack of commitment to our animals🐾

Both EVIE and her sister Meah were 2 lucky pups to have Cassie advocating for them. Cassie reached out at 7pm ⏰to us on a Sunday night and by 10pm ⏰we had a travel plan in place to get these 2 pups to safety for Monday (thank you 🙏🏿Christine for organizing that)

Mike and Cecilia reached out as soon as they saw Evie & Meah's welcome post and were very smitten with Evie to join their "boxer" family. They were pre -approved to adopt EVIE and anxiously have been waiting for her to be old enough to come home 🏡 with them.
Evie has fit right in- the pictures 📸 tell the story ❤️and Mike and Cecilia have been keeping us updated. Evie loves all her new siblings and it's just like she always belonged there.

Thank you 🙏🏿Mike & Cecilia for giving EVIE her best life and we can't wait to see her new adventures with your family ❤️

01/18/2025

🚨SICK PUPPY🚨
Our sweet little MEAH is having some health issues😭
Meah had her first set of vaccines over a week ago and at the time of the vet appointment it was discussed that she may be having some UTI/bladder issues and MEAH was put on antibiotics. The antibiotics have been finished and there has been zero improvement :(
Yesterday morning (Friday) a urinalysis was done that didn't find anything abnormal.
Late in the day yesterday(Friday) Meah developed diarrhea as well as she just wasn't herself at her foster home🏡. We called our vet and they were able to set up an appointment for Meah first thing this morning.
Thank you 🙏🏿Cottage Country Animal Clinic for fitting this girl in today- we appreciate it.
This morning there was a urinalysis done directly from Meah's bladder, plus there was a full blood panel done to establish her kidney functions. Everything came back pretty "boring" with the tests - which is good news. The only thing that stood out was that she was slightly anemic.
Her amazing foster mom is keeping a very close eye on this cutie pie for the next few days.
Please say some prayers that this girl feels better 🙏🏿

This was a very unexpected vet bill that totalled $366.29 ($95.79 yesterday and $270.50 today)
Any help with Meah's vet bill would be greatly appreciated ♥️
Email $$ transfers can be sent to [email protected]

*Meah will not 🚫 be up for adoption until this health issue is sorted out .
Her sister Evie is adopted and is thriving in her new home🏡-her adoption announcement will be soon ♥️

01/09/2025

🚨COURTESY POST 🚨
We had huge interest in our Rosie the sheepadoodle and we had amazing applications for her❤️
These guys are bernadoodles.
Please contact the rescue (One Paw at a Time) directly for more information :)

01/09/2025

📸 CAPTION THIS📸
If a picture is worth a thousand words; what would this picture say to you ❓

As a rescuer this picture 📸 is a picture that screams pure joy, adoration and a sense of finally being home 🏡
Felix was one of our harder cats to place and find a home for. He was completely misunderstood. He's a bigger guy and super fluffy too so he looked even bigger than what he was under all that fur. He was brushed often but even though his fur appeared to be ok, there was matting underneath all of the fur 😭.
Two foster homes didn't catch it but in their defense he didnt like his back end being petted because of this and the exterior fur looked healthy :(
It was all figured out when Felix arrived at D's. These two guys are two peas in a pod 🫛and the best of friends.
So happy that they found each other.

01/08/2025

🚨GOOSE IS IN PARRY SOUND 🚨
Today was a day of many emotions.
Our young beautiful tail pull kitty arrived in Parry Sound and he will be living with me for a bit.

Jessica and her partner Brandon took this boy on as his foster when he was just a tiny tiny tiny wee little guy almost a year ago.
Goose (named Malibu by the shelter) had been dropped off as a stray kitten at a Quebec shelter- he most likely was dropped off by his owners because they realized something wasn't right with him. He had a droopy tail and sometimes wasn't peeing. And then he got sick with rhino (kitty cold) at the shelter and at that point he was assigned a euthanasia date.
You shared the heck out of his post and YOU found us Jessica.
We didn't 100% know what we were getting into with him but it was suspected that he was a tail pull kitty.
Goose went straight from the Quebec shelter to our Port Hope Emergency vet because he was very sick plus we needed to find out what was wrong with him and move forward with what needed to be done for his care.
X-rays and multiple tests were done on Goose- he was there for 5 days :( and our surgeon Dr M was there and also had a meeting with Jessica & Goose and it was confirmed that it indeed was a tail pull 😭
This happens when a kitten is picked up by its tail, or its tail is pulled hard or its tail is stepped on. The nerves at the tail base become disconnected. Usually tail pull kitties don't have mobility in their hind legs.
We are thankful that's not 🚫 the case with Goose and he can walk , jump and run. However, like other tail pull kitties he does require to be expressed manually 3x a day.
It's a huge commitment.
There are a few famous tail pull kitties on social media that can't walk that are living their best lives. We also have spoken to another rescue that has saved a few and knows all about them and their support has been appreciated.
Jessica also found Facebook groups that are for owners of tail pull kitties.
Yup, it's a "thing" and an open forum where questions are answered.

I would like to say a massive thank you 🙏🏿to Jessica and Brandon for their commitment as Goose's foster family. Jessica is what I would call an expert on tail pull kitties. Goose has had different treatments and Jessica investigated them all beforehand.
Jessica is taking a vacation and I have taken over the care of Goose for now. We have something in the works for Goose and it was important that he come to Parry Sound.
We spent a few hours this afternoon going over his routines together.
Jessica & Brandon said their goodbyes to Goose and we ALL cried. Jessica and Brandon gave Goose what he needed to get the best start in his life. They also SAVED HIS LIFE. We are forever grateful for this. Goose was worth saving.
Not only is Goose a super handsome dude, he honestly is the sweetest kitty ❤️

We have made a wish list on Amazon if anyone would like to help with a few things we require for him. He needs more diapers and a few other items and he can only have high quality wet food.
We would appreciate it ❤️
Link is below 👇

https://www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/LFCIJUSLHRQ5?ref_=wl_share

01/07/2025

🚨Do we do a 2025 Calendar❓❓🚨

We had asked for pictures back in October/November of our Cottage Paws 🐾 pets to make a calendar for 2025.
We had AMAZING PHOTOS sent to us and we were working on a plan to make it so that EVERY animal was at least featured one time in the calendar 📆- whether it was a whole month or in a collage.
This was important to us ! Every animal has a story and every animal was worth saving ❤️
We wanted every animal submitted to at least be in the calendar once .

Unfortunately, our plan to roll out the calendar came to a screeching halt due to the postal strike. We were going to mail 📬 the calendars directly to the ones that ordered them. By the time the postal strike was over, it was so close to Christmas 🎄 that it just wasn't feasible to roll it out then.

The question is:
If we were to roll out a 2025 calendar that included some "extra" months would you purchase it and support this fundraiser❓
We don't want to order them and then "get stuck" with a bunch of calendars.

Please comment 👇if you'd be interested in us going forward with this. We've had a few of our adopters that submitted pics📸 reach out and ask us to please "do this" and they were prepared to purchase 5-10 calendars each :)

BELOW 👇
just a FEW of the pics that were submitted to us♥️

🚨If you submitted and yours isn't below, please don't worry, I only grabbed a handful and put them in this post🚨

Aren't they just awesome pics🐾 ❓
*The calendar format is different than the cover picture featured below