Paws and Pumpkins Rescue

07/02/2025

You could win a $20 gift card this week just from ordering our cats more food! In case you’re new around here, each Wednesday we have a new featured item from our Amazon Wishlist and if your order the featured item on Wishlist Wednesday, you are entered into our weekly giveaway for a $20 gift card! All you have to do is order the item from our wishlist on the Wednesday it’s featured and email or DM us the order receipt so we can enter you into the giveaway. We don’t get notifications when people order from our wishlist so emailing or DMing us is super important so we can make sure you get credit for your order! This week our we’re offering a special deal. This week when you order adult cat wet food from our wishlist, that will count as an entry. Each individual item ordered counts as an additional entry (1 box of food=1 entry). So, if you’d like to help our cats and possibly win a gift card in the process, head to our Amazon Wishlist today and get entered for your chance to win a $20 gift card!
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/LK944VCKV0ZL?ref_=wl_share

06/29/2025

We want to give a HUGE thank you to all the volunteers that came out to the Left Coast Estate for the Wicked Wine Run event yesterday! We are so grateful to the Wicked Wine Run crew and Left Coast Estate for having us as a charity partner for this event and thanks to all of our volunteers, the event was a huge success! We had such an amazing time out there and it was such a beautiful location for us to spend our Saturday afternoon. We really appreciate each and every one of you for showing up to help out and we hope to be a part of more events like this in the future! In an email we received this afternoon from the Volunteer and Charity Partner Coordinator with the Wicked Wine Run, we were told that the event team would like to give a special shout out to Flory, Kathryn, Jaiden, Ayla, and Elijah for their help at the event.
Again, thank you to all our volunteers who came out and supported us yesterday! We couldn’t do this without you!

06/25/2025

You could win a $20 gift card this week just from ordering our cats more food! In case you’re new around here, each Wednesday we have a new featured item from our Amazon Wishlist and if your order the featured item on Wishlist Wednesday, you are entered into our weekly giveaway for a $20 gift card! All you have to do is order the item from our wishlist on the Wednesday it’s featured and email or DM us the order receipt so we can enter you into the giveaway. We don’t get notifications when people order from our wishlist so emailing or DMing us is super important so we can make sure you get credit for your order! This week our we’re offering a special deal. This week when you order ANY kind of wet food from our wishlist, that will count as an entry. Each individual item ordered counts as an additional entry (1 box of food=1 entry). So, if you’d like to help our cats and possibly win a gift card in the process, head to our Amazon Wishlist today and get entered for your chance to win a $20 gift card!
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/LK944VCKV0ZL?ref_=wl_share

06/20/2025

We’re calling this the “Megaphone Effect” 😂
You’ve all been loving Megaphone so rest assured, she will be making more appearances on our pages. We love her too, raspy screams and all. She’s won the hearts of hundreds of thousands of people online with her voice so she’s only second most famous to Flame at the rescue. Stay tuned for more Megaphone content coming soon!

06/19/2025

FREE HOUR LONG CAT LOUNGE VISIT VOUCHER!! We only have two spots left to fill for this event and we need them filled before midnight tomorrow (6/19)! All volunteers get a FREE hour long cat lounge visit voucher in addition to the gifts the event coordinators provide! This event is in Rickreal, NOT Portland like it says on their website. The only time slot we have left is from 3-8:30pm. Use the sign up link below or from the original post if you’re able to help out and earn a free hour long cat lounge visit voucher!

https://vmodcui.active.com/volunteer/jobs?eventGroupId=2903132&jobGroupId=531101

CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS!!!
We have some exciting news! We are the official charity partner for the Wicked Wine Run hosted at the Left Coast Estate in Rickreal on June 28th! They will provide us with a $500 donation if we provide 10 volunteers (age 16+) from 1pm-6:30pm AND an additional $50 donation PER VOLUNTEER, up to 16 more volunteers from 3pm-8:30pm on the day of the event. Volunteers will help with tasks such as handing out race bibs, swag bags and checking IDs. This is a huge opportunity for us and we are very grateful to the hosts of the Wicked Wine Run for reaching out to us to be their charity partner. If you are able to sign up with our rescue to be a volunteer for the event, please use our sign up link in our bio (also copied below) to pick your time slot.

https://vmodcui.active.com/volunteer/jobs?eventGroupId=2903132&jobGroupId=531101

06/18/2025

Get a FREE Hour Long Cat Lounge Visit Voucher!!!
We desperately need 4 more volunteers to help out at this event! As the official charity partner for this event, we get a $50 donation for each volunteer if we fill all the volunteer slots or a $40 donation per volunteer if we can’t fill all of them. Since we just took in 3 sick kittens two days ago, had a fourth dumped last night and we’re expecting 3 more in the next few days, we are strongly relying on filling all the volunteer slots to get the most funding for these new kitties. We need one more volunteer from 1-6:30pm and 3 more volunteers from 3-8:30pm. All volunteers will get a FREE hour long cat lounge visit voucher in addition to the gifts provided by the event organizers!
Use the sign up link below to pick your volunteer slot!
https://vmodcui.active.com/volunteer/jobs?eventGroupId=2903132&jobGroupId=531101

CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS!!!
We have some exciting news! We are the official charity partner for the Wicked Wine Run hosted at the Left Coast Estate in Rickreal on June 28th! They will provide us with a $500 donation if we provide 10 volunteers (age 16+) from 1pm-6:30pm AND an additional $50 donation PER VOLUNTEER, up to 16 more volunteers from 3pm-8:30pm on the day of the event. Volunteers will help with tasks such as handing out race bibs, swag bags and checking IDs. This is a huge opportunity for us and we are very grateful to the hosts of the Wicked Wine Run for reaching out to us to be their charity partner. If you are able to sign up with our rescue to be a volunteer for the event, please use our sign up link in our bio (also copied below) to pick your time slot.

https://vmodcui.active.com/volunteer/jobs?eventGroupId=2903132&jobGroupId=531101

06/16/2025

We need 9 more volunteers to help out during this event on June 28th! We have one more time slot available from 1pm-6:30pm and 8 more time slots available from 3pm-8:30pm. Signing up for ANY volunteer time slot now earns you a FREE one hour pass to the cat lounge in addition to the gifts provided to all volunteers by the event organizers. The event is in Rickreal, NOT Portland like the picture from their website shows so don’t worry, it’s not that far away! Use the sign up link below to pick your volunteer time slot and earn your free hour long cat lounge pass!

https://vmodcui.active.com/responsive/eventGroups/2903132/jobGroups/531101/jobs

CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS!!!
We have some exciting news! We are the official charity partner for the Wicked Wine Run hosted at the Left Coast Estate in Rickreal on June 28th! They will provide us with a $500 donation if we provide 10 volunteers (age 16+) from 1pm-6:30pm AND an additional $50 donation PER VOLUNTEER, up to 16 more volunteers from 3pm-8:30pm on the day of the event. Volunteers will help with tasks such as handing out race bibs, swag bags and checking IDs. This is a huge opportunity for us and we are very grateful to the hosts of the Wicked Wine Run for reaching out to us to be their charity partner. If you are able to sign up with our rescue to be a volunteer for the event, please use our sign up link in our bio (also copied below) to pick your time slot.

https://vmodcui.active.com/volunteer/jobs?eventGroupId=2903132&jobGroupId=531101

06/14/2025

With everything going on today, we want to let everyone know that no matter who you are or where you come from, this is a safe space for you. If you need a minute away from everything to take a breather, our cat lounge is open to all customers. Stay safe out there today friends 💜

06/13/2025

The next 4 people who sign up for the 1pm-6:30pm volunteer slot will get a FREE Hour Long Cat Lounge Visit Voucher in addition to the free gifts provided to all volunteers by the event organizers! As the official charity partner for the Wicked Wine Run, they are donating $50 to our organization for every volunteer we provide if we can fill all 26 volunteer slots. We have already filled almost half the slots and we need to fill the rest by the 20th so make sure to sign up today to get your free cat lounge visit voucher!

https://vmodcui.active.com/responsive/eventGroups/2903132/jobGroups/531101/jobs

06/13/2025

We need 16 more volunteers to sign up for this event! We’ve filled 10 spots so far and our goal is to fill all 26 spots by the 20th so we can get the maximum donation from the event! Thank you to everyone who has already signed up!

https://vmodcui.active.com/responsive/eventGroups/2903132/jobGroups/531101/jobs

CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS!!!
We have some exciting news! We are the official charity partner for the Wicked Wine Run hosted at the Left Coast Estate in Rickreal on June 28th! They will provide us with a $500 donation if we provide 10 volunteers (age 16+) from 1pm-6:30pm AND an additional $50 donation PER VOLUNTEER, up to 16 more volunteers from 3pm-8:30pm on the day of the event. Volunteers will help with tasks such as handing out race bibs, swag bags and checking IDs. This is a huge opportunity for us and we are very grateful to the hosts of the Wicked Wine Run for reaching out to us to be their charity partner. If you are able to sign up with our rescue to be a volunteer for the event, please use our sign up link in our bio (also copied below) to pick your time slot.

https://vmodcui.active.com/volunteer/jobs?eventGroupId=2903132&jobGroupId=531101

06/12/2025

Lately we’ve been getting dozens of calls and surrender requests per week and, more often than not, people are unfortunately frustrated with us when we have to say no to a request. There’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes for each new intake and we want to use this opportunity to show you the full process from start to finish. The picture you see here is a result of roughly one week of work.
The feeder for this colony noticed that there was a mama cat who had kittens so she informed us and we started guiding her on how to trap train them so we can catch them.
This is a bit complicated in a colony setting like this one since you are just trying to focus on the handful of cats that aren’t fixed right now. She had to strategically select the location she’d be trap training them, setup the traps and commit to baiting the traps every single day at around the same time so they get used to going in and out of the traps without them getting set off. Now that they’re trap trained, we are moving on to the next step which is securing spay/neuter appointments for everyone. Mama cat will get fixed at the feral cat coalition but we intend to keep and socialize the kittens so all three of their medical bills are coming out of our funds. 3 kittens may not sound like a lot but each kitten costs at least $200 for just their basic medical work. This is why, as much as we’d love to, we can’t say yes to every single surrender form or request for help with trapping strays. We are a very small team and it takes a lot of work to get all these cats cared for.
So, if you’ve submitted a request that we haven’t responded to or had to deny, I promise you it’s not just because we “didn’t want to” or we’re “ignoring your request”. We are drowning in dozens of requests just like yours and we have to pick and choose what requests we have the time and resources to accept.
We will be using this specific case to show the step by step process we go through with each new intake so stay tuned to see what we do after trap training everyone!

06/11/2025

CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS!!!
We have some exciting news! We are the official charity partner for the Wicked Wine Run hosted at the Left Coast Estate in Rickreal on June 28th! They will provide us with a $500 donation if we provide 10 volunteers (age 16+) from 1pm-6:30pm AND an additional $50 donation PER VOLUNTEER, up to 16 more volunteers from 3pm-8:30pm on the day of the event. Volunteers will help with tasks such as handing out race bibs, swag bags and checking IDs. This is a huge opportunity for us and we are very grateful to the hosts of the Wicked Wine Run for reaching out to us to be their charity partner. If you are able to sign up with our rescue to be a volunteer for the event, please use our sign up link in our bio (also copied below) to pick your time slot.

https://vmodcui.active.com/volunteer/jobs?eventGroupId=2903132&jobGroupId=531101