Rescued Pets Are Wonderful

11/14/2025

Make sure you stop out to Livewell Animal Urgent Care in Shoreview for your pet's picture with Santa! They are generously donating the proceeds ❤️

NOW OPEN in Shoreview, a full service animal urgent care to serve your pets well!
Our hours are currently 12 PM- 10 PM Thursday through Monday

11/12/2025

Our 2025 Christmas Carnival planning is in full swing!
We are looking for local individuals or businesses, large or small, in the community to sponsor our event 💕🎄🎅
We have 2 levels of sponsorship:
- The $250 level
- The $500 level
Either level will give us the financial support we need to pull off an amazing event! We will share all of our sponsors in our advertising to over 25,000 on our social media accounts.
Please reach out to [email protected] if you or your business would like to be a sponsor.
Our free event is scheduled for December 7th 12-4pm at Splitrocks Entertainment Center

11/11/2025

Nova wanted to stop by and let everyone know that she stopped by Minnesota Veterinary Neurology and visited their Physical Therapy department to see the AMAZING John Nielsen for a work out ❤️
You may have noticed her new blue "racing stripes" which are actually kinesiology tape. Kinesiology tape is a thin, flexible tape that was developed to aid muscle movement and enhance athletic performance. It is often used to relieve pain, reduce swelling and inflammation and provide support to joints and muscles. You may have seen your favorite athlete sporting some on their arms, legs and even back. Veterinary medicine has seen some promising results with its use in animals as well.
Nova will be visiting her new friends every Monday for the foreseeable future to see if we can get those legs working. If you are able to help us cover these sessions, we would really appreciate it. We need to start by raising $500.

11/10/2025

Our 2025 Christmas Carnival is going to have a wonderful silent auction and we would love for you to help!
Items in need:
Baskets- themed are always fun but can also be a collection of items from your business
Gift Cards- any and all places and sizes
Single item- anything that may be a higher dollar item that can stand on it's own
We will be taking donation items at the RPAW Animal Wellness Center during business hours (Tues, Wed, Thurs 8-2) or by appointment
Please email [email protected] if you have items to donate or have any questions.

11/07/2025

This sweet boy is Ray and he came into animal control as a stray. Sweet as pie but his eye were badly damaged. He was completely blind and the remaining tissues left in his eye sockets were causing discomfort.
This week we were able to neuter him and get those eyes cleaned out surgically. He is much more comfortable now and healing nicely.

He will soon be looking for a forever home but for now he has a super cozy bed and a belly full of food ❤️

11/05/2025

Meet Chicken Wing!

This pretty lady is fairest of them all

11/04/2025

A little update on Clarice 🐾

She had another round of medical tests.
Ultrasound was unremarkable which sounds frustrating but tells us a lot. She doesn't seem to have inflammation in her gi tract, her adrenal glands are normal size so that rules out Addisons. Her lymph nodes were normal so cancer is less likely. Her stool was not straight liquid in her colon. She didnt have any foreign bodies or strictures.
We also sent out 2 more f***l tests. One was a PCR test and looks for protein of the parasite in the stool. This can catch things that may be missed by looking at a very very small sample under the microscope. When you just do a f***l float test or an O and P test, you take a tootsie Roll size sample and hope that if they have parasites there would be an egg or worm in that super small sample compared to the entire gi tract where they live. Odds are much better if you test for their protein. However in her case I wanted to test for protein as well as look for eggs and worms. I want to know how prevalent the parasite is that she has if she has any.
This was where things got good and why you cannot simply rely on one test versus the other.
The protein (pcr) test showed Giardia positive in a high concentration. This is definitely not surprising given her history. Dogs can test per positive for sometime after treatment. This is where the f***l float comes into play. On her float they saw a high amount of giardia cysts which means she has Giardia active in her system and it was never fully treated. This is why it is crucial to send a follow up f***l out 2 weeks after the last dose of treatment. Giardia loves to live on haha. Anyway, this alone could explain her issues... but that's not all we found. She was also positive on the float for a parasite that is not common but hard to treat called Tritrichomonas. These parasites look almost identical to Giardia cysts but they move differently. If you send a f***l into the lab and you just happened to have a tech that wasn't super specialized in telling the difference, it would have been mistaken for giardia. This parasite can be a nightmare to get rid of. There are not any approved treatments currently. Not that that matters because there are off label things we can try.
And finally they also saw Hookworm larvae present which in itself can be a nasty one.

So basically, instead of looking for zebras right now we are going to treat the horses in front of us. We are going to hit her hard with meds, bathe her daily and make sure things are clear before assuming that the treatment worked.

Food sensitivity is also still on the list but it would be pointless to go down that road when we have 3 huge diarrhea causing agents in front of us.

Treatment for these parasites will take time but we will continue to keep everyone updated along the way!

11/02/2025

Our 2025 Christmas Carnival is going to have a wonderful silent auction and we would love for you to help!

Items in need:
Baskets- themed are always fun but can also be a collection of items from your business
Gift Cards- any and all places and sizes
Single item- anything that may be a higher dollar item that can stand on it's own

We will be taking donation items at the RPAW Animal Wellness Center during business hours (Tues, Wed, Thurs 8-2) or by appointment

Please email [email protected] if you have items to donate or have any questions.

11/02/2025

Nova wanted to stop by and let everyone know her appointment with Minnesota Veterinary Neurology went well and everyone fell in love with her.
They were able to collect spinal fluid to send to the lab to see if we can get an answer on what is causing her current leg paralysis.
We started her on a few medications to take down inflammation and treat the pain.

She is much brighter this morning with makes us so happy 😊 She has been eating and drinking great and thanks to a huge donation of doggie diapers, she is staying clean and dry ❤️

Huge shout out to the community for helping this little lady, we will make sure to keep everyone updated on her progress.

11/01/2025

We welcomed another medical lemon drop this past week!
Meet Clarice aka Reece
We are her third stop on her rescue journey. Originally from Kentucky, this southern belle was taken in by a shelter in Southern MN. She was welcomed with open arms and everyone quickly fell hard for her little squishy self. Unfortunately, it was quickly discovered that she had some pretty severe gut issues. They ran all the right lab tests and tried a handful of medications but after several months they ran out of options and resources where they were.
That shelter reached out to a rescue in the metro that often helps with cases they have. That rescue also welcomed little Reese with open arms and again everyone feel hard for her. They got her seen right away by their vets and sent out more labs and tried more meds and put her on a special diet. Things got better but never resolved and it would go from bad to worse real quickly and sometimes without warning. Quality of life was put on the table for discussion. It is never easy to talk about euthanasia but even worse when the pup is barely 2 years old.
That's where we come in 😀
We are just crazy enough to say "yes" to a dog with massive p**p problems, again with open arms because LOOK AT THAT FACE!

Yesterday, she had an abdominal ultrasound to see if this would give us an answer. Unfortunately, her abdomen looked great along with all of the organs inside. Just another box checked and more questions. We do still have a few thoughts and we are not giving up yet. Despite her bathroom issues, she is holding weight and she is a happy go lucky frenchie, so her quality of life is still fairly good.

Her ultrasound was $300 and her labs and new meds will be about $200. So if we could raise $500 that would help us get to the bottom of things. Thankfully, we just had a large donation of the food she needs to be on so there is not added expenses of that!

We know the RPAW community will welcome this little tot with open arms like everyone else!