Paw Parent Animal Sanctuary

11/03/2024

We had another beautiful sky over Paw Parent Animal Sanctuary yesterday. 🤩

10/30/2024

Thanks to YOU we got our $2000 Match! 🤩
NOW FOR THE SWAN DIVE TO END PAW PARENT’S
SINK OR SWIM CAMPAIGN!

October has flown by and Halloween is now upon us! It’s time for Tricks or Treats and for the Swan Dive that marks the final two days in Paw Parent’s crucial Sink or Swim Campaign.
To all who have given, THANK YOU! Your generosity and kindness of spirit have helped us achieve the $2,000 match, allowing us to add them to our total.

To date, you have contributed $17,395 towards our $25,000 goal; and for those who are still considering a contribution, now is the time!
With $7,605 still outstanding, every penny counts! Every single cent donated will bring us one stroke closer to reaching that far shore, but there’s not a moment to lose.
Once the clock strikes midnight on Halloween, the Sink or Swim Campaign comes to a close, and what we have raised through the generosity of Paw Parents’ outstanding donors is what we’ll have to work with for the coming year.
Please be with us so with your critical support today, so we will not sink next year!
If you have a few dollars to spare, commit them now to the health and well-being of abandoned animals, some from dire straits, to make a difference in an innocent life lifted from suffering!

I cannot thank all of you enough for helping Paw Parent at this crucial juncture, and for supporting us through these difficult times! ❤️
We all wish you a happy and safe Halloween! 👻
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Please click this link to donate:
https://pawparent.networkforgood.com/projects/231190-sink-or-swim

Cordelia, or shall I say Eeyore, would love for you to send some treats her way! 😍

10/13/2024

With $1310 raised we only need $690 more to get our
$2000 match!

We have 22 days left to reach our far and distant goal of $25,000. But if we can raise $690 we will receive an additional $2000, which will propel us quite a bit closer to where we need to be.
Times are rough for many, especially pets, and the need for assistance, no matter how small has never been greater. Without the financial backbone from animal loving people like you Paw Parent's future is at stake. We can't let this happen, not right now when discarded pets need us more than ever.

I am willing to fight for our survival so that we can continue our life saving work.
Will you please fight with me! 🙏

🐱 Thank you from all of us at Paw Parent! 🐶
Your generosity is greatly appreciated!

Please click on this link to donate:
https://pawparent.networkforgood.com/projects/231190-sink-or-swim

Our sweet Daisy Dukes was more than willing to give, and since she doesn't have any money she donated her favorite toy. ❤️

10/05/2024

This story shows how intelligent and loyal dogs are and how much they care for their person, yet there are so many people lately treating man’s best friend like garbage, abandoning them wherever they can. 😭

A 13-year-old rescue dog has saved her 84-year-old owner after leading deputies to the injured man in his own home, police said.

10/04/2024

I want to share this heartwarming update about Marty, a cockapoo who got adopted to a wonderful couple a few months ago. This is what keeps us going through these dark times. 🙏❤️

“Mighty Marty is doing well: attacking delivery men, terrified of large noisy trucks, and barks at teenage boys or jumps into my arms- I suspect he may have been treated roughly at his previous home by boys. He does bark at people talking as they walk by the house outside, or if someone slams a car door. Generally, I can get him to stop with an a-a-a sound then a rolled up magazine to my hand or furniture . He and Jaynie are buddies (Marty is on the left and Jaynie on the right in the picture), and my husband Dave is positively smitten with Marty, who loves to sit in his lap, bring over a ball to play fetch, or just cuddle. We feel blessed to have Marty with us, and thank you for the wonderful work that you do to save the dogs and cats who give humans so much love.❤️”

10/04/2024

Yippee! 🥳

We have crossed the halfway mark of our goal, but with only 28 days left this goal of $25,000 seems awfully far!
That’s why I decided to donate $100 to our Sink & Swim Campaign, hoping that you will follow my example and make a contribution to our cause.
So far we have received $460, which includes my $100, toward our $2,000 match, we’re doggy paddling when we need strong forward strokes to reach the safe haven of the distant shore by October 31st!
It can’t be stressed enough that we need every last penny to continue providing the services so vitally required by so many, right now. In the years we have been rescuing at Paw Parent, we have never seen a crisis of this magnitude.

It’s raining Dogs and Cats, but the Lifeboats are FULL!! 😫

Please, please, please open your heart to make the very best contribution you can to help Paw Parent meet, or even better, surpass our match and goal. The lovely couple who have made this match possible are rooting for our rescues, as are we. And we know you are, too!
There is no gift too small – again, every last penny counts…We’re willing to work as hard as we can to do what it takes to alleviate the pain and suffering of helpless animals carelessly discarded to die alone and afraid. All we need is your help to keep us afloat so we can!

🐱 Thank you from all of us at Paw Parent! 🐶
Your generosity is greatly appreciated in this fight for survival! 🙏
Please click on the following link to make a donation:
https://pawparent.networkforgood.com/projects/231190-sink-or-swim

Our three new kittens Mouse, Jade and Rave are very grateful for having been rescued by us and your support. They were on the brink of being put down at the Hesperia shelter.😿

10/02/2024

It’s been soo crazy busy here at Paw Parent that I haven’t had the time to announce the happy news about our latest adoptions. We had 6 more adoptions since the last time I posted adoptions.
1 cat and 2 kittens and 2 dogs and a puppy found incredible homes.
First there was Georgia, one of the kittens that was born here in April, she was adopted by a single gentleman who says she’s a peach! 😻
Madden and Indiana Jane, Georgia’s sister, got adopted at Petsmart on the same day by loving couples.
Babe, the Belgian Malinois puppy that was abandoned up the road from us with her brother Bruno, found her new family and is no living in the mountains near Caliente, CA.
Daisy, our sweet little Chihuahua girl is now living the life of a princess at her new mom’s place.
And last not least Marvin, our super cute and mellow Pekinese mix has found his new mom and forever home.
We are so happy for all of them, but now as always we wish for our larger dogs to get adopted too. They have been waiting patiently for so long. Please check them out on our website www.pawparent.org if you have room in your heart and home to make one of them a new member of your family.

09/28/2024

I just love Dr. Jane Goodall!
At the age of 90 she’s still fighting for animals and our planet. She’s my super hero! ❤️❤️❤️

Legendary primatologist Jane Goodall tells Stephen about her Vote For Nature campaign and makes a keen observation about the similarities between certain mal...

09/28/2024

Hooray, We Have Great News! 🥳

Paw Parent is very excited to announce that a wonderful couple has offered to match $2000 in donations to our Sink Or Swim Campaign!
This means, for every dollar you give, another dollar is matched through the generosity of this caring couple which is getting us closer to our goal of $25,000!!

This fantastic match couldn’t be better timed, because pets all over the country are sadly finding themselves in dire straits – being abandoned and surrendered in unprecedented numbers. Shelters across the country are bursting out of their seams, and Paw Parent is no different.
Never has the influx of surrendered and abandoned pets been greater!
While we see the economy overtaking family budgets, vulnerable pets, often with great regret, are being sacrificed to make ends meet!!

Over and above space and supplies, we must focus on retaining our invaluable staff who see to the needs of all the dogs and cats in our care.
Without their time, expertise, kind hearts and attention, Paw Parent would have not been able to take in the amount of animals we are currently sheltering!

Please help with your most generous contribution knowing that the more you give, the more you raise!
And please consider joining our team to help us raise the necessary funds with the help of your friends and family.
Your critical gift today will help to ensure a happy ending for our hopeful rescues!
This is truly a case where every penny counts!!

Thank you for your continued support of Paw Parent and our important work!

Please click on the following link to donate.

https://pawparent.networkforgood.com/projects/231190-sink-or-swim

Let me introduce you to our amazing staff:

09/22/2024

Remember the skeletal Shepherd that followed our gentle giant Toby onto our property a while back?
Well, she gained quite a bit of weight but she is still super scared of us and disappeares into her dog house as soon as she sees one of us. So, to help her come out of her shell aka dog house we’ve been putting Toby, whom she likes a lot, in her kennel during the day.
I was lucky to catch a glimpse of her today and even take a short video. She’s so beautiful! ❤️
I just hope she will start to trust us eventually. Poor girl, I wonder what her story is. 🤔

09/20/2024

Thank you everyone who gave to Paw Parent for my birthday! ❤️

Thanks to generous donors our Sink Or Swim campaign reached almost half of our $25,000 goal with 42 days left to achieve it. It is a very daunting goal, but I cannot lose hope that we can make it. We need to so Paw Parent can swim!

Now guess what the universe got me for my birthday?

Three puppies! 😮
I had just finished dinner the night before my birthday, when my neighbor called me in a panic. Three puppies were running on busy Lancaster Road, which is just down the road from Paw Parent. It was dark out and leaving them there was out of the question.
With the help of other people we were able to catch all three. But now what?
My neighbor said that she would take them to the shelter, which would mean that three dogs already at the shelter would need to be killed to make room for them. They could also catch Parvo at the shelter and be euthanized and even if they didn't get sick, if not adopted they would be killed to make room for new arrivals.
Seeing them falling asleep cuddling together, exhausted from the trauma of having been abandoned, I just couldn't let that happen!
So, we squeezed them in, now we're juggling kennels and rotating dogs!
It is a challenge, but so are our times! Somehow we are making it work and somehow we will overcome the financial hurdle too. With your support we can make it happen!
Turns out the puppies are a new cross breed, Cattle dog and Corgie, called Cowboy Corgies, two boys and a girl. We named them Sawyer, Kamden and Dakota. We believe that a backyard breeder who couldn't sell them now that they are about four months old, drove out to the desert and dumped them! A sad reality for a lot of dogs and puppies! 😰

I hope you can understand why it is so important that we reach our goal.
Without the financial backbone we cannot provide the safe haven we can currently offer to abandoned puppies, dogs, cats or kittens.

Please don't let Paw Parent sink and click on the following link to donate:
https://pawparent.networkforgood.com/projects/231190-sink-or-swim


If you are interested in adopting any of our rescues, please look them up on our website www.pawparent.org

Thank you!
🐶 Isabell and the Paw Parent family 🐱

09/11/2024

This Week I Will Be Celebrating My 65th Birthday! 🥳

What a milestone! I cannot believe that I am that old already! 😮 Yikes, time flies too fast! But to be honest, I do feel my age lately. I am not able to do the things that I was able to do easily 10 years ago, and I am becoming more and more dependent on Paw Parent's trusted care-givers to help me run it smoothly. Without them I couldn't keep going. This is why it is so important that we raise the funds to ensure Paw Parent's future.

I am asking you to please help make my birthday a joyous one, one that I will happily remember for many years to come, by donating to our Sink Or Swim campaign.

You have no idea how much your support means to all of us, the peace of mind that comes with knowing that Paw Parent's financial future is secure for at least another year. This will enable me to focus all my energies onto saving lives. Far too many dogs and cats need our help right now!

I want to leave you with some good news! Remember the two puppies and kitten that we rescued a few weeks ago? We named the puppies Bruno and Babe and the kitten Sabrina. Well, Bruno and Sabrina got adopted already to fantastic homes! 🤩
If you are interested in adopting any of our rescues, please look them up on our website www.pawparent.org

Please click the following link to donate:
https://pawparent.networkforgood.com/projects/231190-sink-or-swim

Gratefully,
🐶 Isabell and the Paw Parent family 🐱

09/02/2024

Our Shorty got his own long claim to fame story in Rocky Kanaka’s newsletter. 🤩Thank you Rocky for going the extra mile to find Shorty his forever home! 🙏❤️

This loveable 13-year-old Staffordshire Mix was first brought to a rescue organization when he was two years old. 11 years later, he's still waiting to be adopted.

08/21/2024

Amidst all the drama of dogs and cats abandoned in the desert I totally forgot to tell you the good news that our Pinto finally got adopted! 🤩
His new mom is besotted with him and ordered a DNA test to find out what exactly his mix is. We can’t wait to find out! 🤔
Thank you Sonja Flemming to post him on Nextdoor for us and make this adoption possible! 😘❤️

08/21/2024

A couple of days ago one of our helpers alerted me about 2 puppies that were left behind after people moved from a property just up the road from Paw Parent.
So we drove there to investigate and sure enough found two three months old Belgian Malinois puppies, one male and one female, each about 15 pounds. They are so tiny! There was no food or water anywhere for them and they had just been left to fend for themselves. 🤬 And then out of nowhere a black kitten came running to us, overjoyed to see people. It couldn’t stop purring when we picked it up.
Of course we could not leave them there. We have no kennel available for the puppies and they spend the day in the backyard with the little dogs and at night are in a makeshift side yard. And the kitten is now in my bedroom for quarantine.
Then this morning someone from my neighborhood came driving by with a Doberman and a Lab mix in the back of his truck. He had just found them at the side of the road and wanted to know if we could take them. 😫
We are totally out of space and had to send him away.
The dog dumping here in the desert is getting worse with no end in side.
Please help by donating so we can take care of all the newcomers.
Thank you! 🙏 ❤️

08/20/2024

Thanks To YOU We're Swimming!
Thank you to all our supporters for the generous outpouring of support to keep us afloat! We still have to raise lots more, but we are off to a good start and things are starting to look up!😍

Financial stability is crucial to our work, especially now when pets are discarded by the millions all over America.

I want to give you just one example of what Paw Parent is facing on almost a daily basis.
For the last couple of weeks we have been spotting Shepherds roaming the desert near us, one of them a skeletal and super scared girl.
On Saturday she decided that she couldn't bear to fight for her survival by herself anymore and walked onto our property following Toby, our huge gentle giant, whom we let out to meet her. He calmed her enough for her to muster the courage to follow him in. From there she went into an open kennel without a struggle, it was so easy! She wanted to be rescued for sure!
Now she is adjusting and decompressing.
She is so emaciated and frightened! She must have been out there for weeks to look the way she does. Thankfully we had a kennel available. Bertha one of our large dogs had just gotten adopted after patiently waiting for her forever home for over two years. But it doesn't end here.

Today, Sandra one of our helpers, saw two Shepherd puppies on an abandoned property just up the road from us. We have no space left here at Paw Parent for them and are at our wits end about what to do.
I contacted a rescue friend of mine who does Shepherd rescue, but her rescue is full too. She is as desperate about the current situation as I am.
In the 17 years that I have been in rescue I have never experienced anything like this she told me.


You can see for yourself how much your support is needed!
We just cannot afford to lose any of our staff. My plate is overflowing as it is and I cannot add to the workload I am already doing. I am not getting any younger and just cannot do what I was able to 10 years ago.

Please Help Paw Parent Swim to a Safe and Steady Shore!!
And thank you for your most generous support!

https://pawparent.networkforgood.com/projects/231190-sink-or-swim

08/17/2024

We are in the midst of a national crises where pets are abandoned and thrown away like trash. We at Paw Parent are being flooded with requests to take in animals. We cannot keep up and are completely overwhelmed.
Today I opened this message of an obviously clueless and entitled person who thought she was doing us a favor by “donating” her dog to us! 🙄
My message back to her failed to go through because she left a wrong email address. 🤦‍♀️
People never cease to amaze me! 😝

08/14/2024

We are happy to tell you about 2 more adoptions we had in the last few weeks.
Our little senior Anka, who has too long of a back story to write here, finally found her forever home with a retired couple who were specifically looking for an older Shih-Tzu as a friend for their 13 year old Shih-Tzu. He just had lost his friend to old age and was feeling lonely.
Anka perfectly fit that void and is now the spoiled princess she deserves to be.
And then our Bertha also found her perfect match with a couple who have adopted 5 dogs (including Bertha) over the years from Paw Parent. We just love them! 😍
Last year they adopted Eddie. Some of you might remember the white goofy looking dog. Bertha loves her new home with a beautiful yard and 2 brothers.
She originally came to Paw Parent with her 4 puppies. They had been dumped in the desert and need to be trapped. Her 4 puppies found homes quite quickly while she waited patiently for over 2 years. But she now hit the jackpot and will never have to worry again.
We are all so happy for the two of them! 🥳🤩❤️

08/07/2024

Wow! Please watch! 😱

08/07/2024

Paw Parent is sinking! Will you help?

Taking a moment to reflect back over the 16 years of working with friends, generous donors and dedicated staff to rescue animals in need, I must say that, while raising funds to make this all possible has never been easy, it has gotten much more difficult this year. 2024 has been a tough year for everyone in rescue, and I’m not alone in worrying how to keep it all afloat!

But it's the innocent pets that have gotten hit the hardest. Too many are surrendered, abandoned and thrown away like trash, often in the desert near us in 100-degree heat. Paw Parent has been scrambling to help as many of the desperate pleas as we can, but unfortunately, most often we have to say no. And while this breaks our hearts, we just don't have the space to house them all.
What makes matters a lot worse is funding that by comparison seems to have come easily in the years before has all but dried up. For many reasons grant support we relied upon has disappeared. And while grants for animal rescue are always sparse, usually project-oriented and highly competitive, we identified and applied to several foundations this year, but have not received any funding.
Always prudent in managing finances, Paw Parent has been surviving off a nest egg put aside for rainy days. But now that cushion is dwindling fast and I spend every day seeking ways to replenish it.
If we cannot raise the necessary funds to keep our operations running at current levels, we will have to let some of our dedicated staff go, which in turn means we have to drastically reduce the number of dogs and cats in our care. That then leads to our being able to rescue even fewer desperate souls.

The outcome of this campaign determines the future of Paw Parent!
We are truly at that moment of Sink or Swim.

At the barest minimum, Paw Parent must raise $25,000 to ensure continued operations at our current level and our Sink or Swim Campaign must succeed. To look into the trusting eyes of our charges, knowing that should we fail, their futures are uncertain; not to mention the dismal fates of the many we can no longer help at all, is beyond belief.

Yet we must be realistic, and for the best of all concerned, we can’t sugar-coat or pretend. This is a real crisis and we’re determined to meet it head-on.

Please, look at the faces of the fur babies featured below. They need our continuous care and support! We’ve managed all these years; we can’t give up on them now!

Help Paw Parent Swim to a Safe and Steady Shore!!
And thank you for your most generous support!
Please follow the link below to donate:
https://pawparent.networkforgood.com/projects/231190-sink-or-swim