Paw Parent Animal Sanctuary

06/14/2025

JUST 2 DAYS LEFT TO ENTER YOUR PET OR DECIDE WHO SHOULD BE THE WINNER!! 😃
Please remember that every dollar you donate by voting or entering your pet enables us to care for the abandoned and unwanted dogs and cats that have found their way to Paw Parent.
Take a minute now to enter your furry, feathered or scaly friend or cast your vote and launch your favorite pet to 1st, 2nd up to 10th place!
It’s quick and easy to do. Simply click on the button below to enter the contest.
If You’re already in the Running, Vote, Vote and Vote again!!
Remember, the contest will run until 10:00:00 PM (Pacific Time) on Sunday, June 15, 2025, so get your Calendar Girl or Boy entered today.
There’s no time like the present to ensure VICTORY for you and Paw Parent!
It truly is a win win situation!
Let your friends and family know that it only costs $1 to vote, and it takes their votes for your pet to place in the top 10.
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The top 10 winners with the most votes will be featured in our 2026 Paw Parent calendar. The winner with the most votes also receives a free calendar. Calendars can be pre-purchased as well for a special price.
And remember, even if you aren’t in the top 10, your companion will still shine on the calendar’s collage page, so no one is left out!
❤️ 🐱🐶 ❤️

Fundraiser for Paw Parent

06/09/2025

Yippee, we finally had an adoption again! 🥳
We’ve been going through a terrible adoption drought, but our super cute Nugget finally found his forever home and will be living in Pismo Beach as a beach boy! 🤩🏖️
He’s our 5th adoption since January, we usually average 3-4 adoptions a month.
Times are definitely not as they used to be.
Please help us by opening your heart and home to a furry friend. The dogs and cats need you as they never have before! 🙏
Please take a look at our available dogs and cats on our website: www.pawparent.org and click on “Our Animals”

05/27/2025

Paw Parent Has a Quick Question – Where Are you? 🤔

A big thank you to all the contestants that have joined with such amazing pictures of their beloved pet(s), but to get the party really started we need more of you and your pets to join!
With only a little more than two weeks to go, if you haven’t entered your photogenic companion in the Calendar Contest, you’re missing the Party!

Right now, with 14 heartwarming photos currently bidding to outpace their competitors, there is still plenty of room for YOUR PET(S) to take the Stage!!

Join the FUN now!! Paw Parent is now nearly one-half of the way to its $5,000 goal, with more than $2,100 raised to date – But still, there’s a long way to go before we’re successful in raising the critical funds needed to care for all the dogs and cats currently residing at Paw Parent.

Who knows? Maybe next year, thanks to you and your pet, one of these cuties may very well be the winner of next year’s contest when their new family enters them for 2027!

Even if you’ve won in the past and held a top-ten spot, go for it again to prove you’re a REAL WINNER!!

If you haven’t participated before, jump in now! The Key to Success is to Outbid Those Determined to Win Yet Again.
If you don't have a pet to enter then please go ahead and vote for one of our contestants. It's only $1 per vote, a dollar well spend!

It’s quick and easy to do. Simply click on the link below and follow the prompts.
There’s still plenty of room for more participants to take the field! Remember, the contest will run until 10:00:00 PM (Pacific Time) on Sunday, June 15, 2025, so get your Calendar Girl or Boy entered today.
Then, place your votes and encourage friends, family and everyone y’all know to vote for your beloved candidate!
Be sure to let them know, it only costs $1 to vote, and it takes their votes for your pet to place in the top 10.

Top 10 winners with the most votes will be featured in our 2026 Paw Parent calendar. The winner with the most votes also receives a free calendar. Calendars can be pre-purchased as well for a special price.
And remember, even if you aren’t in the top 10, your companion will still shine on the calendar’s collage page, so no one is left out!

Important - Every vote brings Paw Parent closer to our contest goal of $5,000. Achieving this goal helps to rescue and protect companion animals in need!
So, ENTER NOW; then ENCOURAGE your peeps to “Put You Over the Top!!”
Thank you! ❤️ 🐱🐶 ❤️
https://www.gogophotocontest.com/pawparentrescue?fbclid=IwY2xjawKRyPpleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFMd0tEWlY4d0NuamloZVgzAR5JYr_DDbFFUHPXsObxZPNSJCaJEo86H0Tsr8rCHfBKJrmMsbNGdb9k-vDLJQ_aem_T-Xk-l_FQTl1pCUgy0Wa8g

Fundraiser for Paw Parent

05/23/2025

All of us at Paw Parent want to send a heartfelt thank you to our rescue friends at Pedro Pet Pals https://www.facebook.com/Pedropetpals?mibextid=wwXIfr for donating a pallet of dog food to Paw Parent. It has become very difficult lately to get dog food donated in large quantities and we were running dangerously low. The prospect of buying food was daunting, but Pedro Pet Pals came to the rescue just in time. 🤩
We are deeply grateful! 🙏❤️
It is so good to know that we are not alone in this crises!
It takes a village and together we will make it through!

05/20/2025

Paw Parent needs a financial boost!
We took in 2 litters of kittens, a dog that had been dumped in the desert and a dog from Mexico, just in the last few weeks. We are full to the brim but not our coffer. 🥺
It needs some replenishing to make sure we can give all the new-comers the care they need.
The first litter of kittens was infested with fleas and needed several baths. They were too young to get flea treatment. Unfortunately the immune system of two of them was so badly impacted by the onslaught of fleas that they died shortly after they arrived. 😿
Now the three that made it got ringworm and are being treated. The poor things sure have had a rough start in life! 🙀
But with proper care they will soon thrive and finally be able to enjoy life to the fullest. 😻
We also are in the middle of repairing the floor of one kennel in the barn.
The dogs had decided that they didn’t like the old floor anymore and ripped it out, then ate a whole in the wall just for fun! 😝
The bill for the repair project is $500.
Will you please be so kind and help us replenish our coffer?
We can use all the help we can get. Thank you ! 🙏

05/03/2025

If you live in the AV and have no plans for tomorrow, but miss the company of a good friend, then please stop by at this event. We will be there with amazing and adorable dogs, a puppy, cats and kittens for adoption! 🐶🐱

04/25/2025

This is unacceptable!
We’re going through a terrible crises, more and more pets are being euthanized, abandoned and dumped and Karen Bass wants to shut down 3 LA city shelters.

The opposite is needed! More shelters and more staff to face this crises and save lives!
Please if you live in LA make your voice heard and protest!🙏

04/11/2025

It’s been a while since the last Paw Parent news. There wasn’t much to report adoption wise, we only had three adoptions since January. 🙁
But three is better than none. 😊
Minnie, out shy Maltese mix found the perfect home with a retired woman who is crazy in love with her and is giving her the perfect environment to feel comfortable. 😍
Then our Dove got adopted to a family whose son is autistic. He picked Dove from the thousands of cats on the internet, to be his lifelong friend. 😺
And then Penny found her perfect home at our new location at Petsmart in Stevenson Ranch.
We also had two new-comers, Lola, a gorgeous German Shepherd, that came to us from a new neighbor who couldn’t keep her anymore. And then we got Nugget, a three months old cute as a button mutt. We were told that he is a Maltipoo. 😂
We are also in the process to take in 2 litters of kittens, one litter with their mom. Rescue never stops, even if we want to pull the breaks.
If you want to support our efforts and help with the expenses of getting them all spayed and neutered please donate. We surely can use all the finacial help we can get. 🙏

03/13/2025

We had a beautiful sunrise with a special gift, a rainbow, this morning! 🌅🌈

02/27/2025

DG did so much better on her walk yesterday! Even leashing her wasn’t such an ordeal as the first two times.
Were very hopeful for her! 😍

02/23/2025

Some of you might remember the skeletal Shepherd we took in last year. We call her DG, short for Desert Girl. She’s definitely feral and hasn’t made much progress with us since her arrival. We are pairing her with Garbo, one of our Huskies, during the day and had hoped that she would learn to trust us by watching Garbo. Unfortunately this has not been the case. She’s still deathly afraid of us.
That’s why I decided to crank the process up a notch by taking her for a walk with Garbo.
Well, you couldn’t call it a walk the first time we tried a couple of days ago, more a drag with lots of bucking and leash biting. Garbo kept coming over to calm her down with affectionate licks. 😍
Just the process of getting her leashed though was an adventure in itself that left all of us exhausted.
Today we gave it another try, same problem with leashing her but the walk actually looked more like a walk. We are so proud of her! 🤩 She still has a long way to go, but this was progress and we hope that with regular outings she will start to walk with us like a normal dog. She even let me pet her for a little bit once we were back in her kennel. 🥰
We are very hopeful that we can get her to trust us eventually, but today was definitely a huge step in the right direction.
We will keep you posted!