Help Every Little Paw

26/01/2025

Our annual March fundraiser, the famous Bartender’s Ball is canceled.
The Help Every Little Paw page will remain active. Stay tuned for further notifications. Please friend the page

11/01/2025

Help Every Little Paw has helped 1000’s of local pets since 2010 but now it’s time to take a break. Effective January 13, 2025, Help Every Little Paw is officially closing and will no longer provide emergency medical care, spay and neuter, and pet food. We appreciate our fundraising support from friends and businesses. We encourage you to consider donating to other local animal rights organizations. Thank you so much for the opportunity to serve our pet community in North Idaho for 15 years.

01/01/2025

Happy 2025 everyone.
We had a happy ending to 2024!
On New Years Eve Kadeja found her furever home. Right now she is on trial to see if she is a good fit, but so far everything looks great. Please send positive well wishes for this girl!
Just look how happy she is!

28/12/2024

23/12/2024

Kadeja needs a Christmas Miracle!!! C'mon HELP family, let's get to work on finding her perfect home!!! 🙏 You can read her bio I PetFinder. If any questions please feel free to reach out to us 💚

Kadeja is an adoptable Dog - Boxer Mix searching for a forever family near Coeur D Alene, ID. Use Petfinder to find adoptable pets in your area.

21/12/2024

This girl is still waiting for her furever home.
Please share so we can get Kadeja a family for Christmas!

Kadeja is an adoptable Dog - Boxer Mix searching for a forever family near Coeur D Alene, ID. Use Petfinder to find adoptable pets in your area.

11/12/2024

Just did a quick search on Petfinder. It revealed over 238,000 dogs and 161,000 are in need of furever homes. And these are just the ones listed on petfinder! Don't you think this is heartbreaking? They're growing up in a shelter!
These worthy pets come with pre medical exams, vaccines and spay and neutered.
Adopt! Don't shop! Don't add to the shelter nation wide dilemma. Volunteers are tired!
Remember it takes days or even weeks for your new friend to adjust to your new home routine. So make sure you have the time and patience to devote to this important transition!

07/12/2024

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05/12/2024

The 2025 calendars are in!!! Please reach out to us if you would like to pick up locally in CdA and PF area. Volunteers will be delivering and mailing this week! Happy 2025 and Thank you to all who participated.

03/12/2024

Just paid over $4000 in veterinarian bills. The Bartender’s Ball is our biggest fundraiser of the year and makes this budget possible.
We are just a small volunteer run organization but we make a big difference in the lives of these pets in need. Thank you for supporting our cause.
Recipients feel free to post a picture of your pet!

28/11/2024

Happy Thanksgiving!

28/11/2024

I found this great article that explains it so much better than I ever could!

MABEL THE RESCUE DOG
Encourage Dog Lovers to Adopt
ADOPTING AND BUYING A DOG ARE NOT THE SAME THING
MARCH 12, 2020
2 min read (Articles narrated by Mabel)
Whenever someone asks Molly where she got me or how long she’s had me, she always makes a point to say that she adopted me. She wants the world to know that even high demand breeds like me can be a rescue and that adopting is so important. However, we’ve noticed that some people use the word “adopt” even when they didn’t adopt their dog.

What’s the Difference?
Adopting refers to saving a dog’s life. It means you adopted a dog that was already looking for a home. A dog that was sitting at a shelter or staying at a foster home. A dog that had nowhere else to go. Adopting is an amazing thing that all dog parents should do.

However, some people talk about how they adopted their dog from a breeder or a pet store. I know it’s not nice to tell people they’re wrong… but that’s not adopting! The correct term would be buying.

When you spend money to bring another dog into this world, that’s buying. Even if the puppy was already sitting at a pet store or at a breeder, they were still brought into this world just to be bought. And when you buy them, the breeders will just breed more puppies to take their place.

Buying and adopting are not the same thing. Adopting saves one dog’s life while buying only adds to the problem. It might be hard to believe that one word can make such a big difference, but for dogs, it does. People who purchased dogs from a pet store or a breeder need to stop claiming that they “adopted” their dog.

Why is Adopting Better?
Adopting is always better because sadly, dogs are such an overpopulated species. There are so many dogs that there’s not enough space at shelters for them all. Because so many people are breeding instead of adopting, many dogs are being put down to make more room. It’s heartbreaking!

As I said before, buying dogs only adds to this problem. As long as people keep supporting breeders, pet stores, and puppy mills, dogs will keep getting brought into this world more than necessary. Sure, dogs are great, but this world doesn’t need more dogs when there are so many dying every day.
Adopting a dog does the opposite though. When you adopt a dog, you free up a shelter space for another dog in need. Plus, you give that dog a happy life after everything they’ve been through. That’s so much more rewarding than buying a puppy. Please think about that next time you want to get a dog. Encourage dog lovers to adopt instead of shop.

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https://mabeltherescuedog.com/2020/03/12/adopting-and-buying-a-dog-are-not-the-same-thing/

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