Protect 4 Paws

01/09/2025

❄️☃️This weather is for the birds 🐦, but seriously, we’ve been seeing cool feathered friends around the shelter lately, and Bitterballen is not complaining. Aspen, however, could do without the tail flicks to the face.❄️☃️🔈volume up for optimum cat chittering experience 🔈

01/06/2025

❄️🐾Hand in paw we’ll make it through this winter storm together, but a heads up that we will be closed tomorrow, January 6th, for everyone’s safety! Stay warm out there, y’all! 🐾❄️

01/01/2025

✨Just a little Moonpie🌙 here to say ‘Happy New Year’!✨

While to some our numbers might not seem like much, for us, 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣ was a big year of big wins made possible with your support!

✨we had 67 adoptions-67 little animals’ lives changed for the better (and who knows how many human lives figure in there?!)
✨took in 65 new animals and were able to provide them with crucial vet care
✨started and fostered amazing partnerships/friendships with some awesome people and organizations like Catalyst Pet Natural Litter, Darkness Brewing, Personality Pet Portraits, Allie's Walkabout, Sports Of All Sorts, Paddy’s on Main , Hollywood Feed- Crestview Hills, Greater Comfort Heating and Air Conditioning, and Magnified Giving, - just to name a few!
✨grew from a staff of 3 to a staff of 8 - the biggest (and best, obviously! 😚) we’ve ever had!

🥂 Here’s to all this and more in 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣- and thanks to everyone who made it happen!! 🥂

12/25/2024

🎄❤️💚 Don’t mind us and Baby Bert pictured here, as we once again settle down for our long winter’s cat nap 💤. We are closed today, tomorrow, and next week on the 31st and 1st for some much needed and deserved downtime. Thank you all again for pawesome 🐾holiday season and Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! 💚❤️🎄

12/23/2024

🎁 It’s the gift that keeps giving, Clark. 🎁

🎄💚❤️But for us, our partnership with Catalyst Pet Natural Litter this year has truly been the ultimate gift!! ❤️💚🎄

12/18/2024

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Abandoned at Sunrock Farm 12/18/24.
Does anyone recognize this baby?

12/06/2024

✨Do you think someone was excited to go home?! 🏡 It’s our first December Feel Good Friday of 2024 and things are l👀king good !!!✨

❤️💚Baby Dog’s lovely newlywed pawrents are starting the holiday season off with a wedding and adopting the most precious little shelter baby- and we are here for all of it!! 🍾 💚❤️

🎁 We can only hope that for the rest of our shelter babies, especially bonded senior siblings Frozie and Tyrion💔, that the pawlidays will bring them the home they deserve and more! 🎁

12/03/2024

❄️🐾Frozie and Tyrion giving very ‘Arms of the Angels Sarah McLachlan SPCA commercial’ vibes this Giving Tuesday 💔 while waiting at the door for their furever people 🥺🥺, and if that doesn’t move you, I don’t know what will!! 🐾❄️

❤️💚We are forever grateful for all you who give to help us continue doing what we do, you make all this possible ❤️. And if you’re looking to lend us a paw 🐾 this Giving Tuesday, you can check out our Venmo page, as well as our Chewy, Amazon, and Kuranda Beds Wishlists all linked on our website https://protect4paws.weebly.com! 💚❤️

11/28/2024

🦃🧡It’s not really the season for them, but we’ve got hot cross buns 😡 nonetheless ! We hope, if you celebrate, that your Thanksgiving feasts are as plentiful and diverse as ours- and just want to take a moment to say thanks to all of you here!! We wouldn’t be here without you!! 🧡🦃

*a reminder that we will be closed today and tomorrow for the holiday!

11/19/2024

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11/14/2024

❄️💤Frozie all nestled and snug in her bed,
while visions of furever homes danced in her head 💤❄️

We have so many deserving little furbabies here, like Frozie and her brother Tyrion, who would love to have a home for the pawlidays! 🎄❤️ Come visit us to meet these merrymakers and help someone’s Christmas wish come true!! 🎁

11/13/2024

🐾❗️ That’s right, it’s your chance to be part of the best little team with the best little shelter!! We are hiring, and looking for a 🆒 and compassionate Animal Care Technician to join the team! Check out the posting on our website (https://protect4paws.weebly.com/employment-opportunities.html) for more info on the role, and reach out today if you’re interested! ❗️🐾

11/12/2024

🎄🦃 ❄️Even though the holiday season is just beginning, we already have so many thanks to give, because we are part of the best little community that never misses a chance to show their overwhelming support!!

First, we need to thank our friends at Paddy’s on Main who raised nearly $500 + hundreds of dollars worth of dog food and treats for us during Riker’s Birthday Bash!

Next, we need to thank our new friends, the Animal Club at Highlands High School, who put on the sweetest, little 🐕🍂Barktoberfest🍂🐕 fundraiser for us, and raised over $800 and allowed for our adoptable pups to come meet some amazing potential adopters!!!!

And finally, we’re thanking our neighbors at Ashlee Kennedy State Farm Agency, who spent the month of October fundraising for us and raised nearly $700!!!!

All of these people reached out to us and put together all of these events and giving opportunities just because they could 😭! We’ve said it once and we’ll say it again, we couldn’t be here doing what we do without you all!! Thank you all so much, and here’s to continued happy and thanks-filled holiday season!! ❄️🦃🎄

10/31/2024

🎃👻 While every animal here is a little ‘treat’ in and of themselves, it’s hard not
to be overwhelmed by the cruel ‘tricks’ of fate that brought them here- especially another bonded pair of senior dogs 💔. 👻🎃

Meet Frozie (F)(~11yrs) and Tyrion (M)(~8 yrs).They both got that dog🌭 in ‘em- and by dog we mean Dachshund, which if you think we refer to it by anything other than weenie, you’d be wrong, and boy does that weenie show! With long little snouts, long ‘little’ bodies, and that certain little 🌶️ that only weenies have.

Both are lovers of the outdoors, treats, car rides🚙, and snuggling, both seem to be not lovers of cats 🚫🐈, though Tyrion is the only one that will give chase. In their defense, this the first time they’ve ever been around cats, and suddenly having to share a space with 30+ cats can be a lot!

When it comes to humans though-they love ‘em all, even if Frozie is a bit hesitant/barky when meeting new people. Once they get to know you, all they wanna do is be by your side! 💕 Learning how much love they have to give, it’s been so hard watching them try to adjust to life here just knowing how much they must miss their people even though after spending nearly their whole lives together, their people decided Frozie and Tyrion couldn’t accompany them on their move 💔. I’ve tried and tried to get a good pic of Frozie outside, but all she wants to do is sit at the fence and watch the road, just waiting for someone who’s never coming back 💔💔💔💔.

And while it might be Halloween 👻 , don’t let this trick last much longer- these weenies need you! Reach out to come meet them and see what a treat 🍬🍭🍬🍭 they both are!