For Pets

07/17/2025

07/17/2025

In a significant win for animal welfare, Rhode Island has become the fifth U.S. state to prohibit cat declawing!👏Cats there can no longer be subjected to these procedures for cosmetic reasons or their guardians’ convenience. Other states include New York, Maryland, Virginia, and Massachusetts. Cities and counties across the U.S. also ban declawing, as well at least 38 countries, including almost all of western Europe.

Fortunately, there has been growing awareness of the risks and cruelty of declawing, which is animal abuse and must be prohibited altogether. Declawing is not a harmless grooming procedure — it’s a surgery that involves amputating part of a cat’s toe bones or severing the tendons that control their paws. This forces cats to walk on the backs of their feet rather than their toes, making them more susceptible to back pain and impairing their balance, mobility, and ability to climb or jump.
Declawed cats may even develop anxiety or aggression as a result of the chronic stress they experience, and they are left defenseless— all to accommodate their humans who supposedly care about them but actually love their furniture more.

Cats’ claws are integral to their natural behaviors, including stretching and playing, and for that reason, many veterinarians will not perform onychectomies. There are simpler and safer alternatives to discourage cats from scratching furniture or people, most notably providing them with a scratching post or other appropriate scratching material.

If your vet still declaws, we urge you to find another veterinarian.🐈
Way to go Rhode Island!
You can help educate others with information from https://pawproject.org/

07/14/2025

A huge thank you to Chester Chester, for sponsoring this wee little one, who was found along 169. We will send pictures and videos, so you can watch this little one grow and give him a cute name!

Fun facts about this little one….
- layed back personality and likes to be in high places to observe.
- knows how to climb the cat tree
-mixes in with other cats and dogs
-loves to eat many small meals
-likes humans and loves his spoted belly rubbed!

I feel like he has grown 6 inches since he was rescued.

07/14/2025

It’s Willows Birthday and it looks like she had a great time outside with her owners! Happy Birthday Willow!

07/13/2025

Sasha got her special day! She landed in a new home with a great mom! We couldn’t be happier for her great future! Sasha, you were a great momma and now it is your turn to be pampered!

Thanks for Laura and her beautiful family for fostering her and her kittens, which will be coming to Petsmart soon. Also a huge thank you to Petsmart and staff, for helping make these great events possible!

07/13/2025

Penelope/Ellie updated us today! She loves her new home and has her own cat tree! She wants everyone to have a great Sunday!

07/12/2025

Great info…..

07/08/2025

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