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04/24/2025

🐾 Rescue Brew 2025 is Here! 🍻

Calling All Animal Rescue Groups: Share with Your Adopters and Fosters! 👣

Get ready to support rescue pets across North Carolina! 🐶🐱🐰

🎉 Grant Prizes for Rescues
Rescue organizations whose adopted or foster pets receive the most votes will be awarded:

🥇 $3,000 – Most Votes

🥈 $2,000 – Second Most Votes

🥉 $1,000 – Third Most Votes

✨ Additional Opportunities:
Selected applicants will receive 10% of total funds raised, up to $10,000 in Rescue Brew grants!

📅 Important Dates:

Enter: April 23 – June 30

Vote: Until July 10

Winners Announced: July 15

Enter your pet for a chance to be the face of Fullsteam Brewery’s limited-edition Rescue Brew — and win big for your favorite animal rescue organization! 💰💛

https://www.gogophotocontest.com/rescuebrew

Let’s celebrate pets, pints, and the power of rescue. 🐾

04/24/2025

PSA

"Kitten Season" 2025 is well underway, unfortunately. 😬

What should you do if you find a newborn kitten or litter of kittens outdoors?

Step 1: Please resist the urge to scoop up the kitten(s) because that could do more harm than good.

Instead, watch from a distance and wait for Mom to return.

STEP 2: If Mom DID come back …
Great! If you want to help by offering food and shelter, make sure this doesn't cause trouble for the cat family. Extra food will fuel Mom's milk production — BUT put it at least 20 feet from the kitten nest. If food is too close, it will attract other animals, and Mom will move her kittens to a safer place. If Mom doesn't have a great weatherproof place for the kittens, offer a weatherproof cat shelter — again, not too close to the current nest. Let Mom choose whether to use it or not. By offering resources without scaring Mom into moving her family, you'll know where the kittens are when they're weaned (6ish weeks to pull to help transition to canned kitten food and socialize) and old enough to be safely trapped for taming and adoption at 12 weeks of age.

🚩And, most importantly, don't forget to trap and spay Mom the same day you pull the kittens!

Have a plan. Schedule her TNR appointment right when the kittens are born, so it's scheduled, and call to get the kittens on every rescue and shelter intake list that same day as well. Do not delay. Mom can go into heat when her kittens are 2 weeks old, so do not wait. The clock is ticking to save lives.

STEP 3: If Mom is truly NOT feeding and caring for her kittens, then please intervene -- https://www.kittenlady.org/age.

See this link for further information/resources: https://www.alleycat.org/take-action/leave-them-be/




Post adapted from Watching Over Whiskers.

04/23/2025

"Think lost not stray!"
On National Lost Dog Awareness Day, we want to remind you EVERY day when you see a loose pet
"think lost, not stray!"

Here's a more on depth description of that concept by our mentor Kat Albrecht-Thiessen

https://katalbrecht.substack.com/p/think-lost-not-stray?fbclid=IwY2xjawJ1y3RleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHlQudKf1XrNV2qblNmEvCdLBj2aDLzUfdSfPJQxFdnXmhUM_fGdKROGTYk5__aem_TkV_yslr8MVgyIMh2bjTQg

04/18/2025

We hadn’t even considered this! For all our trapper friends- we hope you find this as useful as we did. :)

04/17/2025

Get your ticket before the end of the month and you may just win a 2nd entry! One lucky ticket holder will be drawn to win an extra entry for free! ;)

Tickets are on sale!

Let the $50,000 Reverse 50/50 Raffle Extravaganza begin!

Buy with the link below. :)

https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/1ce9daf0-0b7e-4ed6-afc2-882a3388ca00

04/15/2025

Courtesy post: This gorgeous brindle baby is Saint. Saint is an 8-ish month old female Cane Corso/Pit mix. She’s up to date on shots, but not yet spayed. She’s good with other dogs and older kids (she currently lives with some between the ages of 9-18). It’s unknown how she’d be with cats or very young children.

She’s looking for a new home because honestly, she was just born into an irresponsible one. She and her siblings were being sold/given away in a Walmart parking lot. The teenager of the family where she is now was pressured into taking one (now Saint), and he thought he was doing the right thing by bringing her home.

He was planning to move out on his own and thought she’d be good company, but he’s now discovered that he really isn’t financially able to afford his own place. Unfortunately, his parents rent where there is a no pet policy- and so Saint finds herself in need of a home yet again.

If you are interested in meeting her to see if she’d be a good fit for your family, please send us a message.

04/15/2025

As always, we've got more fun up our sleeves. The big reveal will be happening soon, but we just had to let you in on the secret early. Stay tuned for details. :)

04/09/2025

Turn your tax return into a big win for you and animals in need. Join the Zoomies Reverse 50/50 Raffle.

Up to 60 people can win double their money or more, and only a limited number of 500 tickets will be sold!

Winners will be drawn live on August 10th at a huge game show style event with vendors and food trucks and a whole lotta fun.

Proceeds from this amazing event will benefit local animals with spay and neuter assistance, TNVR, and more.

Get your tickets now: https://www.zeffy.com/ticketing/reverse-5050-extravaganza

And please invite your friends and family who might be interested. Help us bring together animal lovers and advocates and make this fundraiser a huge success. :)

04/08/2025

Coming soon to vendor events near you. Tote bags now in stock. ;)

04/05/2025

‼️UPDATE: Spots for female cats are FULL. We are only accepting applications for MALE cats

BISSELL Pet Foundation

🐈The crew is out in Lillington today spaying and neutering over 50 cats. Even better news, we will be back in May with THREE clinic dates.

🩶 These clinics are open to both pet cats and feral cats. Filling out the form doesn't guarantee that you will be selected for an appointment. The form will close once we're reached 90 submission.

💻 Apply at https://form.jotform.com/243465851715159