Paw Parent Animal Sanctuary

02/08/2025

We have super exciting news!!! 🤩
Two of our dogs that I believed would live out their lives here at Paw Parent got adopted.
First Tom, our senior Chihuahua with diabetes. A couple in Washington fell in love with his profile online and wanted to give him his forever home. He now naps on heated blankets and is being spoiled rotten. 😍
Then shortly after Shorty, our 13 year old Pitbull, found his forever home with an elderly woman and her son.
We were contacted a few months ago by a writer who is employed by Rocky Kanaka, who wanted to give Shorty a chance in finding his forever home by writing an article about him for Rocky Kanaka’s newsletter.
Well, it worked!!!🥳
After it was published it took a while, but then all of a sudden, we were getting flooded with inquiries about him. His new family turned out to be the best match. They live in Gardnerville , NV and since I had to drive to Reno at the end of January anyway, which took me smack through Gardnerville, I was able to hand deliver Shorty myself.
Shorty’s story is especially touching since he had spend 11 years of his life in a kennel environment. He was found as a stray when he was about 2 years old and taken in by Pooch Heaven where he spend his next seven years. He was 9 years old when Pooch Heaven closed in 2020 after which he came to us at Paw Parent.
We took him to every adoption event and gave him his best shot to get adopted, but the right fit just never materialized. He needs to be the only pet and most people interested in him had other pets or the living situation wasn’t what Shorty deserved.
But now, thanks to the helping hand of Rocky Kanaka and his crew, Shorty is living his best life. 🥳
Here is what his new mom is saying about him:
“We love Shorty. He is just the sweetest doggie I have met in a long time. Loves to be petted and meet new people. Enjoys his new bed. Eats like a vacuum. Doing quite well with the house training. I take him out every hour and of course he always has access to the outside through the doggie doors. He has investigated everything, and I do mean everything, that is in the house. That includes the inside of cupboards if one happens to be open. I’ve removed anything that can be broken in these investigations so minimum collateral damage.
He loves his stuffies and carries them with him everywhere. He and I share my house slippers. When I’m not wearing them, they become his. Have learned that he will not give up something that he has stolen to chew on. So, I trade chicken jerky for his treasure.”

These kind of stories make our days and brighten up the difficult and dark sides of rescue.
Thank you again Rocky Kanaka for going out of your way to find homes for dogs that have had a hard time finding their perfect match. 🙏❤️
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02/03/2025

Yesterday we had the pleasure to have 2 new volunteers come to help where help was needed.
Our picnic table in one of the exercise yards was in dire need of a fresh coat of paint.
Julie was so excited to have human company and our table looks like new again.
Thank you Sharon and Erik for donating your time and we hope to see you again soon! 😍

01/14/2025

Another amazing offer! 🥰

01/13/2025

Just what is needed! Please share!

For the pets displaced in the Palisades Fire, we are offering free boarding at many of our locations:

VCA Chatsworth - 818-341-7770
VCA Adler - 818-893-6366
The Barkley Pet Hotel & Day Spa - 818-889-2275
VCA Kennel Club Resort & Spa - 310-539-2201⁠

Please contact the hospital for availability.

For VCA clients, please make sure to download myVCA app to have all of your pet's records on hand.

01/13/2025

What a great offer! Please share!

01/08/2025

Time for a new adoption update! Again it has been ages and we’re already in January! 😲
We had 5 more adoptions since my last update and ended 2024 with 53 adoptions of dogs, cats, kittens and puppies. 🤩🥳
Not a bad achievement, considering how bad the situation for pets has been.
Petra, who came to Paw Parent with her kittens a couple of years ago, finally went to her own forever home and is a spoiled princess now. We couldn’t get a picture with her adopter because she was pretty freaked out, but I received some wonderful pictures of her in her new home.
Then a retired couple fell in love with Kylie, our 13 year old senior cat, and were so exited to make her part of their family.
Dakota, who was one of the Cowboy Corgi puppies that were dumped near us, found her new home with a young excited couple.
Jonas, a brown Pitbull, who was living with a foster found his forever home with a family who has two other dogs and who couldn’t wait to bring him home for Christmas.
And last not least the wonderful news that our Stan, a black Lab Pitbull mix, who had been with us for over two years finally found his new forever home on January 1st. He is now living with his new family and girlfriend and couldn’t be happier.
I’m hopeful that 2025 will bring us light at the end of the dark tunnel and we will be seeing less pets being given up and abandoned. 🙏
Happy, healthy New Year! 🎉
And if you have room in your heart and home, please check out our adoptable animals www.pawparent.org

11/25/2024

Time flies! Between trying to raise the necessary funds to stay afloat and taking care of the animals I rarely find the time to post an update on our latest adoptions. We had 9 since my last update. 😀
8 cats and kittens and 1 dog. Dogs have a hard time finding homes nowadays. 😟
Let’s start with Gregory, our gorgeous Siamese cat, who found a home with a loving couple in Ridgecrest. He was followed by Berit, who is now living with Angelica, a Paw Parent cat the was adopted last year to a wonderful home. Her new mom decided it was time for Angelica to have a new friend.
Napoleon, who was the last of the litter that was born here at Paw Parent on April 13th to find his forever home. He now lives with a young couple and has a beautiful girlfriend now, with whom he plays during the night and keeps his new parents up. 😹
Mouse, our super friendly and beautiful kitten, who was on the euthanasia list at the Hesperia shelter with his 2 siblings, was adopted next. His new mom was super excited when she learned that she would be able to adopt him. He is being spoiled rotten now.
Sawyer, who was one of the Cowboy Corgis that were dumped on a busy street just down the road from us, moved in with his new parents and is super happy. 😊
Jade and Rave, Mouse’s siblings got adopted together, which made all of us so happy. Their new dad didn’t want to separate them.🫶
Our wonderful Kleo, the devoted mom of the kittens born here in April, found her new home with one of our volunteers, who fell head over heels in love with her. 💞
And last but not not least Molly, who came to Paw Parent with her brother as extremely feral kittens went to her new home yesterday.
Molly and her brother Milo needed a lot of time and patience to learn to trust people. They both love to be petted now and have forgotten their feral past. 🤩
We are so happy for all of them and wish them the best in their new life’s chapter! 🙏
Now it’s time for our dogs, especially the larger ones, to find their loving homes. Please visit our website www.pawparent.org and click on “Our Animals “ if you have room in your heart and home for one. 🙏❤️
We also welcomed two new faces in the last few weeks,
Roxy, a 14 year old 7 pound Chihuahua, whose person had died. She needed extensive dental work and had to have 17 teeth pulled. She’s doing all better now and loves life here with us.
And then we welcomed Peanut, a terrier mix from the Lancaster shelter, who was in great danger to be put down. He’d been there for a month and time was running out for him. He has a heart murmur and because of it wasn’t getting neutered. We will get it done at our vet after which he will be up for adoption. Both him and Roxy are sweeties! 🥰

11/05/2024

That why a registered microchip in your pets is so important!
https://search.app/?link=https://gardenandgun.com/articles/checking-in-on-sam-the-farm-cat-who-found-his-way-home-after-eleven-years/&utm_source=dsdfns,sh/x/discover/m1/5 Checking In on Sam, the Farm Cat Who Found His Way Home After Eleven Years

Source: Garden & Gun

The South Carolina feline is thriving after being reunited with his owner and mending fences with his former canine nemesis