PAWSitively PURRfect Pet Care

12/18/2024

Two new puppers joined the PAWSitive family last weekend for check-ins and walks!🫶🏻

Introducing GSD Berlin💙and his sister, shepherd-mix Bentley💜: both beautiful inside & out❣️

12/09/2024

Though I ❤️ my two purebred GSDs, rescues are in a league of their own🫶🏻, as my dearly departed Frexkles taught me over the course of her 12 years by my side.❤️‍🩹
Exercise a bit of patience, and you will have a best fur friend for life.💝

11/23/2024

Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong… nary another job out there where you are greeted with such exuberant joy.🫶🏻

Cavapoo ‘Oliver’ knows how to roll out the red carpet.😍

11/19/2024

To all my dog loving friends,

Just a little warning regarding the Christmas treat many stores are now starting to stock for dogs for the holidays. 🐩🐕‍🦺🐕🦮

Many of these ‘so called treats’ end up with the dog ‘enjoying’ some time in a veterinary surgery over Christmas. The vast majority of these rawhide products and treats come from China.

The chews are made from cattle or horse hides and their journey starts with the hides being soaked in a toxic sodium sulfide to remove the hair and fat. More chemicals are used in order to split the hide into layers which is then washed with hydrogen peroxide to give the white "pure" look and remove the rancid smell.

Next comes the pretty, festive colors and the glue to form cute shapes. On testing, these chews have shown traces of arsenic, mercury, chromium and formaldehyde.

If that wasn't bad enough, they regularly cause intestinal blockages, poisoning from chemical residue and choking. The chews become slippery when wet, and are near impossible to get hold of to save a choking dog.

Please check where the treat was manufactured. If in China, leave them in the shop where they belong, or if some well meaning person buys them for your dog, put them safely away for later, then dispatch in the bin! Please be safe with your furry friends and give him/her a hug for me!🫶🏻

Merry Christmas!🎄

10/29/2024

12 years, 1 month & 14 days she has been by my side. She never let me out of her sight. NEVER. We shared a bond that comes about once in a lifetime.
She drew her last breath (unexpectedly) at home with me, at 1:30pm, today.
I still sit with her. Praying for a miracle… waiting to see her chest rise and fall, and life return to her eyes. I do not know how to say goodbye. God help me, I don’t.😞
I know life will never be the same: that there is a vast void, a silent emptiness waiting in the shadows for me… waiting for me to accept a truth my decimated heart shrinks in fear from. How do you pick up pieces of a broken heart that splintered into slivers as fine as grains of sand??? How do you move forward, when the one that has been beside you, *every single day* sharing ups, downs, and in-betweens for more than a decade, is gone???

Rest in peace, my beloved best fur friend forever. Your shadow will follow me all the days of my life.🕊️
Freckles
DOB 06/28/2012
DOD 10/29/2024

I am not ok.😢
Please, please remember me in prayer.💔

10/12/2024

And cats!🫶🏻

10/03/2024

***BIG, HAPPY NEWS!!!***

PAWSitively PURRfectPet Care was voted a 2024 Nextdoor Neighborhood Fave!!!🤩

A GARGANTUAN and HEARTFELT "Thank you!" to my wonderful client neighbors! I am both honored and humbled by your support. This award- 2 years in a row, now!- means so much to me personally, and for my business. I appreciate each and every one of you, and your continued trust in my care of your precious fur babies that I love so dearly.

Peace & Love 🫶

09/12/2024

Another ‘Golden’ girl joins the PAWSitive family!🫶🏻
Join me in welcoming Willow!💜

*Still unsure who referred me to her pet parent, Brae (he didn’t get a name during their park encounter). Whomever it was, you ROCK!🤩

09/05/2024

This group is AMAZING: Day Before the Rainbow Rescue and Adoption. If you could offer some help, for their struggle is *real*, it would mean SO very much to both the rescuers and rescued.💞 Contributing myself.🫶🏻
Blessings🕊️

08/26/2024

CATastic news!🤩
Another feline fur baby joins the PAWSitive family!😻
A jubilant and joyful welcome to 18-year-old Sarah.🩵
*And a special meow-out to her pet parents, who just relocated to SC a few weeks back, for trusting me with their special girl.🫶🏻

08/21/2024

Even though I don’t gamble…

08/17/2024

Love… LoVe… LOVE❤️ this crew of !
Just wrapped up a week-long house sitting for squirrel-chasing, walk-lovin’ sweetheart Gemma, and her three feline siblings- optimistic Ollie, beaming Balloo, and kinetic Kitten.🥰

08/09/2024

July pet care be like 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
Always one of my ‘hairiest’ months of the year- pun intended.😜
All manner of services executed 👏🏻 for my fabulous🤩 : AND
two , cousins Spector and Bowen, joined the PAWSitive family!😍

The furbies I spent July with💘, in pictured order:
Bowen
Spector
Teddy
Kemo (pictured with sister Raven)
Raven
Luna
Willow
Doc
Flock of chickens
Oscar
Marley
Toby
Oliver
Bryant
Lola
Panda
Hank
Charly
Chris
Bella
Charlie
MJ
Sparky
Lenny
Fitz
Rosie
Frannie
Kitty
Sadie
Sven
Kristoff

07/26/2024

🌈 THIS!!!💞

Scouts build Rainbow Bridge at Spartanburg Humane Society

A Boy Scout troop helped build an earthly “rainbow bridge” for pet owners at the Spartanburg Humane Society.

07/22/2024

He told us, “It’s time.”😞
15 years Chris gifted us.🫶🏻
I truly can’t feel past the heartbreak to put into words the depth of this loss- and THAT says more about the pain than I could articulate, anyways.💔
In 1947, Jackie Robinson told his Brooklyn Dodgers teammates, “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” If this is to be believed, then Chris’s life held priceless value. My family, and I, are better humans for his work in our lives.🕊️
So many memories… so much love…. One day, when I can see past the tears, I will put my best penmanship forward to compose a eulogy deserving of such a special fur friend.❤️‍🩹
Until then, please remember us in prayer: in particular, my son, Sam, who was Chris’s boy since the tender age of 5.💙
RIP (7/21/24) my beautiful, Golden friend…

07/17/2024

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🚨 URGENT HELP NEEDED 🚨
Our shelter is FULL! We have no more kennels for large dogs, even after doubling up where we can. All of our boarding kennels for shelter dog emergency housing are also full. As a government shelter, we can't turn away dogs in need, but we need YOUR help to make space and save lives.

We're participating in the Bissell Empty the Shelters event and while we don't need our shelter completely empty, we urgently need at least 20 large dogs to leave today so we can continue operating.

Here's how you can help today:
1. Adopt: Open your heart and home to a new furry friend.
2. Foster: Temporarily care for a dog to free up space in the shelter.
3. Share: Spread the word to help us find homes for these wonderful dogs.

Please do not bring large dogs to the shelter today. We simply have no room left and need to focus on finding homes for the dogs already in our care.

Visit us today at 328 Furman Hall Road, Greenville, SC 29609. Your support is crucial and can make a life-saving difference. Thank you for your support! 🐾❤️

07/08/2024

And all five were the best choices *EVER*❣️

06/28/2024

Happy birthday (2) to my ride or die, Spartacus Oz❣️