Odd Paws Rescue

06/22/2025

So uh, how’s everybody hangin’ in there today?

The times… they’re, uh… they’re time-in’.

This is an accurate representation of us today. (He’s just yawning, but imagine he’s screaming with existential dread)

06/21/2025

The truth: I'm not stealing. I'm accidentally creating your future forest.

Did you know?
I bury 3,000 nuts every fall and forget where I put 74% of them. Those "forgotten" nuts become your future trees. I can jump 10 feet horizontally and 4 feet vertically. My tail acts as a parachute, blanket, and communication device. I plant more trees than most conservation programs. One of me can reforest 25 acres in my lifetime. 🐿️ ♥️

06/21/2025

Relevant cat meme update dump!

Please excuse the gaps between posts- I (Scarlet) am the one posting on here most of the time and I’m traveling for work until early July. This work trip would be slingin’ t-shirts at the merch booth for my fiancé’s band, . I’ve seen a few of you already- anyone else coming out to catch a show? Come grab a shirt and show me your cat pictures!

Rest assured, the rescue is chugging along without my presence. My wonderful sister is caring for our forever herd and Ray Charles, Bel, and Devoe; Midnight & Luna Belle are in PetSense & PSP; our amazing fosters and volunteers are taking care of the rest.
I’m the breadwinner and sole funder of this rescue effort so ya girl has to work at some point.

The rest of the UK dates for this tour:

Mon. 23- Birmingham- Castle & Falcon
Wed. 25- Edinburgh- Voodoo Rooms
Thu. 26- Newcastle Upon Tyne- The Cluny
Fri. 27- Dundee- Hidden
Sat. 28- Glasgow- Ivory Blacks
Sun. 29- Dublin- Workman’s Club
Mon. 30- Belfast- Voodoo
Tue. July 1- Leeds- The Warehouse
Thu. 3- York- The Crescent
Fri. 4- Reading- The Face Bar
Sat. 5- London- Oslo
Sun. 6- Leicester- The International

Come see us! Fund some vet bills!

06/19/2025

This is Maddie.
Maddie has been with us for…. Months. She’s one of 4 super antisocial cats we haven’t posted much because they are not exactly fans of people or the idea of being adopted, but they need homes nonetheless.
Maddie was a community cat, unsocial, scared, when she got hit by a car and woke up in the shelter, one leg down and very upset. She can’t go back outside minus her leg and we’ve been trying to calm her down for quite a while.

Maddie recently pulled a big disappearing act. She was in our rescue shed, Kittyland, but kept hiding and wasn’t getting the attention she needed w/ human contact only a couple times per day. In my infinite genius, since our other half-feral had just gone into foster, I thought I’d bring her into my house, where she would be surrounded by friendly cats and have people around every day.
That was…. not the move. On day 3 of being inside, Maddie disappeared. COMPLETELY. We were in the process of moving my fiancée into my house while construction is done on his, so we moved literally every single piece of furniture in the house.
I searched cabinets, under everything, in every hidey hole, checked all the vents to make sure she didn’t get out that way- she was GONE. I was starting to panic bc when we moved the other half of our forever cats under one roof, everyone was going to be switching to 2x per day scheduled feeding w/ no free feeding- how would she eat?!
I was starting to think she must have darted out the door at some point and escaped, despite being a front leg tripod and rather slow.

Finally, the DAY before leaving for my work trip, Lupa ran under the couch while I was trying to contain her. When I reached under the couch to grab her, I ended up face to face with MADDIE. WHERE HAD SHE BEEN?!!!

We have no answers, but Maddie is with one of our best fosters and her goofy cat Nickel- one of our extremely special babies from last year. He’s doing great, and hopefully he can teach Houdini here how to be a proper cat. I think we may rename her to Houdini, in fact.

She has not disappeared again. Yet.

06/18/2025

Our friends at Meowsquad are hurting even more than us. All small rescues need support, especially now, and times have been rough for everyone.

Please support them, too- even follows, shares, interactions with posts signal boost. If you can’t help, maybe your boost will bring eyes that can.

Thank you ♥️♥️

06/18/2025

06/18/2025

Ash would like to let you know that while our director is traveling and working, we still have vet bills and ongoing needs and fundraising has totally stalled 😩

We have 3 spays/neuters that need to be done still and are on hold until funding is reached, along with with regular ongoing upkeep costs and over a grand in medical debt from past vet visits that has not been paid off.

We are a handful of fosters and volunteers. We have been asked to take in- and turned down- 24 cats in the past week. We’re not a big organization, as many people seem to think, and we’ve had to make the difficult decisions to close our doors to intakes completely. We will be pulling only special needs, only when we have the means, and focusing more on wildlife. We pay out of pocket for this rescue and do this work on top of our actual jobs, as most small rescues do, and our savings are depleted. Very few of us are some massive operation. Your average rescue on social media is a handful of people who really, really like animals and sacrifice their lives to care for them, unpaid.

So if you have a minute to check out our merch or the means to buy us a coffee on our ko-fi, we would greatly appreciate it! All comments and signal boosts are also super appreciated- you can help for free ♥️

Thank you for following our journey to help all the creatures we can.

06/16/2025

Baby of the day: Midnight.

Midnight and her daughter Luna Belle are looking for their forever homes (Midnight pictured; Luna Belle is also black).
Midnight had a rough life on the streets for a long time- she had litter after litter of kittens until finally she let herself be trapped. She’d brought her babies one by one to a human in her neighborhood and finally turned herself in as well. Luna Belle is at PetSense in Athens and Midnight is enjoying some much, much needed rest and spoiling with one of our wonderful fosters.

Midnight is ready to be a lap cat, best friend, indoors forever baby. She’s seen what the outside has to offer and she is no longer interested. She wants to be spoiled, she wants to be loved. Will you give this mama the comfortable retirement she deserves?
Fill out an adoption application today and come meet this fluffy sweetheart!

06/16/2025

If you have an outdoor pool please add a frog log and well as a critter skimmer (comes in round and square, links below). Both of these items can save countless lives every summer, like little Skimmer below, a frog-sized evening bat who was found clinging to clump of leaves in a swimming pool in Colleyville, TX following a severe thunderstorm during the summer.

Little "Skimmer" floated in the pool until he was discovered the following morning by the homeowner. He ended up with aspiration pneumonia and thankfully recovered after several weeks in care. A frog log may have allowed him to find his way out of the pool and safely fly away. Below is a link to purchase frog logs and critter skimmers. They are inexpensive and save countless lives!

06/11/2025

Athens, GA!! 🚨 BOLO missing cat

06/11/2025

So, we just posted about Lupa, right?
Well. It happened. Hell froze over.
The demon chicken rolled over and asked for belly rubs.
Over a year and a half of trying to tame this beast and finally belly access has been granted. Of course, when I got up for 3 minutes to refresh her litter, she immediately hissed at me again, but hey. I’ll take it.

Never give up.