Mutty Paws

08/21/2024

08/20/2024

Everyone be on the lookout for Terra!!!

Update found!!

Missing foster in Oakman Parrish area. Answers to Terra. Please contact us here if you see her.

Reward offered. Ran off about 2 pm yesterday while out playing.

08/12/2024

Who let the dogs out…..to have a paw-sitively good time in the pool? 🐾

08/10/2024

Many thanks to Milo and his Mom, Cecily Kimbrell, for their donation of new toys, potty pads and meal toppers 🐾🥰
They also surprised me with the sweetest birthday present at drop off too 🥳

08/10/2024

08/04/2024

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08/04/2024

As of September 1, 2024:

I will no longer be accepting intact animals. Your pets must be spayed or neutered AND HEALED before boarding or daycare is booked 🐾

08/03/2024

Floki’s favorite thing to do is grab a pup cup and see his ladies at Lavish Coffee Shop every morning ☕️🐾😂💜

08/02/2024

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07/31/2024

We’re looking for some old, used tractor tires to add to the play yard for the dogs!
If anyone has any they’d planned to dispose of and would like to donate, please let me know 🐾🐾

07/31/2024

Yana says:
Don’t snooze on booking💤
Get your paws ready for a doggone good time!
Book your end-of-summer vacation today and dive into our new ###XL pool💦💦
Woof woof!

I have a few openings August 8th-25th that will get scooped up quickly🐾

Boarding: $45/day with $20 increase per dog

Daycare:$25/day for up to 10hrs

30min Drop-In: $15 (at your home)

Appointment pickups-$15 (from vet, groomer, etc to your home with a potty and water break)

30min Pack Meet and Greets: $10 (here at my home)

Half of total boarding cost must be paid at booking, as a non-refundable deposit, to hold your spot on the calendar 🗓️

For questions or bookings message me here or call/text anytime!
☎️(205)544-6664

07/30/2024

Checking out the neighbor chickens this morning 🐓🐾

07/30/2024

Pack leader coming in strong at 100lbs but you’d never know it with as tiny as he tries to be sometimes 🤣🥰🐾

Boarding: $45/day with $20 increase per dog

Daycare:$25/day for up to 10hrs

30min Drop-In: $15 (at your home)

Appointment pickups-$15 (from vet, groomer, etc to your home with a potty and water break)

30min Pack Meet and Greets: $10 (here at my home)

Half of total boarding cost must be paid at booking, as a non-refundable deposit, to hold your spot on the calendar 🗓️

For questions or bookings message me here or call/text anytime!
☎️(205)544-6664

07/26/2024

Just in case anybody ever wondered where I got our name 😂🐾

07/26/2024

Saban and Loki are barking up the right tree for their pawsitive 2 week vacation!
They’ve gotten acclimated quickly over the last 24hrs, had enrichment toys, run the yard, made new friends and napped like little couch potatoes 🐾

Boarding: $45/day with $20 increase per dog, per day

Daycare:$25/day for up to 10hrs

30min Drop-In: $15 (at your home)

Appointment pickups-$15 (from vet, groomer, etc to your home with a potty and water break)

30min Pack Meet and Greets: $10 (here at my home)

Half of total boarding cost must be paid at booking, as a non-refundable deposit, to hold your spot on the calendar 🗓️

For questions or bookings message me here or call/text anytime!
☎️(205)544-6664

07/17/2024

We see so many people posting and many others messaging us about stray animals. What are you supposed to do? In the past, we have not had a true shelter where you take strays so that they can be housed and held in order to give a rightful owner a chance to go find them. It is Alabama state law that stray dogs be held for 7 days, so that the owner can look for their lost pet. We have always followed the 7 day stray hold within the rescue, but our foster homes are scattered all across the county. It is a much more simplistic process for owners to know where to go look. If you live in the county and your dog is missing, go to the county shelter. If you live in the city and your dog is missing, go to the city shelter. If you find a stray, don’t hold the dog at your house for 3 months or 8 days and then try to take it in as a stray because at that point, the animal is YOURS by law. Take strays immediately.

When a stray dog is taken into either of the shelters, they are vaccinated upon intake and given necessary medical care. If an animal has been hit by a car or is extremely injured, it is much better to ease suffering than leave it laying because you just “don’t want it killed.” That mindset is not humane. Humane euthanasia is a kindness sometimes.

Every single RUFF foster has MULTIPLE animals in our foster homes. Want to know how many active fosters we have? 17. Yes, 17. Of these 17 fosters, we have 3 cat fosters. All cat fosters have multiple. We currently have 98 animals in our program. Some of those are nursing puppies, but you can still see the math is not mathing. Every foster has multiple animals. Our directors currently have 31 animals between them. We have also set up some temporary kennels at our new facility, so we can go ahead and have some there to help more.

The thing is, when these animals are either adopted or transported to our rescue partners, we will be full again. If we have an opening, we go directly to either the city or county shelters and pull animals into our foster homes. We aren’t having to drive all over the county to meet people to help strays. Our program was never meant to be a rehoming service for people who do not want their dogs anymore or people who do not want the offspring of their animals. We work with people who have a litter of puppies and will foster them while we place them AND who are going to get every animal in their household fixed. We do that for FREE. But, at the same time, the community and pet owners have got to take responsibility for their actions or lack thereof when it comes to spay/neuter. It is the root cause of all of our animal issues in Walker County. Now that there are numerous programs that will fix your animal for you at a discounted or no cost, there is NO excuse.

So, besides the more streamlined process, why are we directing you to take strays to the shelter? We cannot possibly take every animal in Walker County that is in need. It is also safer for everyone involved. Shelter staff are trained in animal behavior, and they will be able to assess animals way better than we can. We cannot take in human or dog aggressive animals. We are not putting our fosters or the public in danger.

Now, as far as stray cats go, county ordinance does not state that shelters have to take in every stray cat in the county. They can take them as space allows. If there is no space and people continue to drop them there, what exactly does the community expect the shelter to do with a never ending supply of cats/kittens that are born because of the community’s lack of responsibility? If they euthanize them and take everything in, they will be shamed. If they turn people away, they are shamed. It is a no win situation. The answer to our animal problem is SPAY NEUTER! Here is the link to the application where you can have your pet fixed for FREE! https://form.jotform.com/223627383486061?fbclid=IwAR0nzwE0f_brF7QKuSM9smJApnOt6yYuAmkpBTXx4yPatygadQ2aRTIhCD4
It may be a couple of months due to lack of appointments, but we will contact you back.

07/16/2024

I’ve warned all the neighbors if they see me in the yard and then i suddenly disappear…..it’s because I’ve been taken out by dogs and am on the ground 🫣😂🐾🐾

07/14/2024

Would anyone happen to have any old sheets or small blankets in their linen closets they aren’t using anymore?
I’m running low for the dogs!

07/03/2024

It’s a miracle!!!
I will be CLOSED and UNAVAILABLE for the 4th of July 🤩🤣🐾💜

07/01/2024

At least they hear me scolding them like my human children acting up in the grocery store 🫣🙃😆🐾

06/30/2024

Puppy Palooza: The Ultimate Canine Extravaganza!

We’ve got 4 under a year old till Tuesday!
They’ve played in the pools, run in the mud, dug some holes, discovered new toys, played new puzzle games, had many naps and lots of snackies 💤
I’ve only lost one pair of shoes to baby teefs so I’d say that’s a win 🙌🏻🐾

Boarding: $45/day with $20 increase per dog

Daycare:$25/day for up to 10hrs

30min Drop-In: $15 (at your home)

Appointment pickups-$15 (from vet, groomer, etc to your home with a potty and water break)

30min Pack Meet and Greets: $10 (here at my home)

Half of total boarding cost must be paid at booking, as a non-refundable deposit, to hold your spot on the calendar 🗓️

For questions or bookings message me here or call/text anytime!
☎️(205)544-6664