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Pitiful Paws Rescue Our organization is a 501c3 non-profit private animal rescue shelter located in Chesapeake, OH. Pitiful Paws is a 501c3 Non-profit animal rescue organization.

PPR started in 2013 as a foster based rescue but grew quickly, we now have a facility and a full team dedicated to our cause. We have a small facility ran by our amazing staff and volunteers! We believe that every dog deserves a chance regardless of breed or age and will do whatever we possibly can to rehabilitate a dog physically and emotionally. Our focus is on dogs that need to be removed from

bad situations, dogs that are in bad shape and in need of medical care, and strays that are in need. After the dogs have been rehabilitated, they will be looking for their forever homes. We also take in cats and small animals such as ferrets, guinea pigs, rabbits, chinchillas, sugar gliders, as well as chickens and the occasional farm animal/livestock if we are able. To adopt one of our animals there will be an application to fill out and a home visit. Each dog will be spayed/neutered and up to date on shots before adoption. **We reserve the right as a private organization to refuse/deny anyone the ability to adopt an animal from us if we deem that a home or owner is not the best fit or for other reasons on a case by case basis.**


Adoption fees cover spay/neuter, vaccines, microchipping, heart worm testing for dogs, FIV/FeLV testing for cats, deworming, and any other vetting needed while in our care. Please message us for an application if you’re interested in adopting. If you are interested in being a foster/volunteer or adopting one of our dogs please email [email protected]. Donations are always welcomed! We can always use sheets/towels/bedding, dog food, dog treats, dog houses, crates, or money can be directly donated towards out vet bills. Each of our rescue dogs will also have their own amazon wish list and set items that they will need. You can email at [email protected] or send a message via Facebook!

❄️ WINTER STORM WARNING ❄️We need your help! Our area is about to get hit with an unpredictable snow/ice storm. That mea...
04/01/2025

❄️ WINTER STORM WARNING ❄️

We need your help! Our area is about to get hit with an unpredictable snow/ice storm. That means we have to move all of our outdoor kennel dogs inside, we have to tarp as many of the outdoor portions of our indoor/outdoor kennels of our kennels to keep the wind/snow/ice off of the doggie doors, and if we get the sleet/ice we will have to replace and fix or tarp many kennel roofs after this. We need to purchase around 30 bags of bedding from tractor supply as well and they are around $7 a bag. We also have to start prepping to lose power, because during these storms (esp if ice is involved) we always do and we have to make sure we have gas for our generators. So please consider donating today to help us prep for the winter storms! Every donation helps, no matter how big or small. 💙

PLEASE MAKE PLANS TO BRING YOUR ANIMALS INSIDE STARTING THIS EVENING IF YOU HAVE OUTDOOR PETS. An uninsulated plastic dog house will not cut it in these temperatures, their water and food will freeze in this weather. If you need a crate to be able to bring an animal in, please message us and we will find one for you. A crate in your garage, spare bathroom, bedroom, mudroom, etc literally any extra space you have in your home or garage could quite literally save your pets life during these winter storms.

If you need tarps, bedding, or help with a way to bring your animals in or anything before the weather hits, please message us and we will come help as much as we can.

💕DONATE TODAY! 💕

💕 PayPal.me/pitifulpawsrescue
🌈 Venmo
✨ Cashapp $Pitifulpawsrescue
💕 Mail to P.O. Box 690 Ona, WV 25545
🌈 You can ship any supplies, dog food, etc to 1020 county road 35 Chesapeake, OH 45619
💕 You can also simply click the donate button on this post!

Our hospice girl Lilly had her first met check of the year and since her surgery/diagnosis. You may remember that she ha...
04/01/2025

Our hospice girl Lilly had her first met check of the year and since her surgery/diagnosis. You may remember that she had a 3lb tumor that was hanging from her abdomen when we took her in and the surgery was to remove that. We unfortunately learned that she has an extremely rare and extremely aggressive form of cancer that even the oncologist at the OSU veterinary school hospital has only ever seen roughly four cases similar to hers. She was given a lifespan estimate of 70-150 days from her surgery until the cancer comes back with a vengeance and/or metastasizes. The 150 days end of the spectrum is if we would do chemo and we did not, as it wouldn’t give her much more time and it would make her very sick.

She had her surgery on November 20th 2024, so we are officially at 44 days today and so far her x-rays looked clear. She did not appear to have any mets/new tumors on her chest X-rays or on her abdominal x-rays. She also didn’t have anything concerning on her bones that we saw (as it can pretty much spread or go anywhere.) So all in all, she is doing really well as of now. She did have a quarter sized cyst rupture on her neck, hear ear infection didn’t fully clear up with one round of meds and has come back, and one of her ni***es that was on the skin flap used to cover where the tumor was removed started leaking bloody infected fluid so she is going back on another round of antibiotics and starting another round of ear meds. Fingers crossed that those are her biggest issues for a while! 💕

Our Lilly girl is eating well, she plays, she begs for any and all human food, she is LOVING this chilly weather, she is still very talkative and howls her opinion at you, and she is obsessed with her foster mom. She follows her around 24/7, she unrelentingly howls at her foster dad when her foster mom leaves the house, and she just loves being with her people and her bff foster brother Kurby. We’re so happy that she got to spend at least one Thanksgiving, one Christmas, and one New Year’s with her foster parents and her foster siblings. She is beyond adored.

Our veterinarian (Lilly’s Aunt Missy) is doing a case study on Lilly to help contribute more knowledge/research as well so that it might help others going through this.

Here is where we really need your help! As most of you also remember, Lilly doesn’t have any teeth. Like…she legitimately barely has 3-4 actual functioning and solid teeth in her whole head. The rest are ground down to the gums or are broken off. While they are not painful anymore (because the nerves have died off now where it happened a while ago), she cannot eat dry dog food and dry food wouldn’t be good for her cancer anyways.

We were told to keep her on a very low carb diet, with lean proteins and as many veggies/fruits as possible. So we opted to go with Ollie’s fresh pet food as it checks all of the boxes for things she needs and she requires a lot of supplements, tinctures, and meds to be mixed in with it daily.

Why do we need your help with this? Because Ollie’s fresh pet food is expensive. Very pricey. And we have so many other mouths to feed as well, but Lilly deserves to have the best of whatever time is left. So, we need your help with donations to help cover the cost of her food, supplements, medications, and healthier treats that she can have. As well as to help cover her monthly vet visits. She will have met check X-rays every 30 days and bloodwork every 60 days. And of course just anything else she needs as we go. So please consider donating if you can! We also have a wishlist with some of her supplements, treats, and medications on it - though there are a few things that we can only get through our vet.

✨AMAZON WISHLIST✨👉🏻 https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1SQ5P69RHETFR?ref_=wl_share

Also, if anyone wants to send Lilly anything special (toys, blankets, treats or stuffed animals, etc) you can ship anything to 1020 County Road 35 Chesapeake, OH 45619.

(The first two pictures were on her way to the vet for her x-rays today, the third picture is her cheesing at her foster mom over the holidays, and the fourth and fifth photos are of the tumor we removed when we took her in..)

💕DONATE TODAY! 💕

💕 PayPal.me/pitifulpawsrescue
🌈 Venmo
✨ Cashapp $Pitifulpawsrescue
💕 Mail to P.O. Box 690 Ona, WV 25545
🌈 You can ship any supplies, dog food, etc to 1020 county road 35 Chesapeake, OH 45619
💕 You can also simply click the donate button on this post!

A huge thank you to Heart of Phoenix Equine Rescue, INC for helping these horses and for everyone that continued to let ...
03/01/2025

A huge thank you to Heart of Phoenix Equine Rescue, INC for helping these horses and for everyone that continued to let the county know that the situation was unacceptable. These are some of the horses from the Kitts Hill, OH situation from the other day. Please go help Heart of Phoenix out if you can, as I know vetting just one horse costs a ridiculous amount compared to us vetting a dog/cat and I’m sure these guys will need a lot of medical, farrier, dental, etc.

✨We have some exciting things that are going to be happening in 2025 that we want to share with you!✨I’m not going to li...
01/01/2025

✨We have some exciting things that are going to be happening in 2025 that we want to share with you!✨

I’m not going to lie, a lot of 2024 felt pretty hopeless for us. A lot of our staff (myself included) became burnt out. We felt like no matter what we were doing or trying to do, we could never get ahead. We hate asking you guys for donations constantly, but we kept having animals dumped on the road in front of our facility or right near us.

Our hearts would sink when we saw a car pull up to our gate or when we would get a new message about an animal in need because we didn’t have options for them. We could only tell them that we literally had no space or extra resources to take on another animal. And then they would ask the dreaded question of “What am I supposed to do? Who can help me?” We didn’t have an answer for that. All of OUR extended resources, rescue and shelter partners, our donors, everyone was beyond maxed out and we were barely keeping our heads above water.

So, this year our New Year’s resolution is to be able to give our community options. Animal welfare has changed SO much since COVID. We’ve had to change the way we do almost everything since then and it has been detrimental to animal welfare throughout our country, but I think especially in our tri-state area.

We still need your help to make this happen, but we will be open to the public three days a week, no appointment necessary - just walk in - for a community wellness program for those in need or for those that have taken in strays. I want to make one thing very clear up front here and that is that our program is NOT a substitute for taking your pets to a veterinarian and we are working with our veterinarian to help build this program. However, if you cannot afford to do so or if you have found a stray and are willing to give it a safe place - we will do what we can to help.

We are also aiming to have our veterinarian come out one a month to help with this as well, but these services will be primarily performed by vet techs and seasoned animal welfare staff that help treat our shelter dogs daily. This program will allow us to help with very basic vetting and health concerns for dogs and cats. We will be able to help with very low cost or pay what you can for the following things: vaccinations, heartworm tests, parvo tests, FIV/Leukemia tests, topical flea/tick prevention, deworming, skin scrapes to rule out mange or other issues, basic skin issues, ear cytology and treatment of ear mites, general cleaning and treating of ears, basic wound care, we can help with embedded nails, mats in the fur causing issues (it will not be a pretty groom - but your pet will not be in pain), and I’m sure there are more things that will be able to be added as we go.

We are also working on some things to help provide veterinary care for people that have pets with greater needs than what we can help manage or if when they come in their pet tests positive for heartworm disease, parvo, or if an animal comes in with a broken bone or something major.

We saw such an overwhelming amount of people in need that came to our community wellness event last year and we literally couldn’t get to everyone. We were beyond exhausted and we helped 80 animals in one day. We realized that this needed to be a permanent program and not just a one day event every few months.

We want to do this to help keep their pets safe, to help people keep their pets that WANT to but may be struggling themselves, to help animals stay in loving homes, to help the animals quality of life - because no one wants to live with itchy skin or ear mites, etc. We will do what we can to help. Because that is all that we can do and someone in this county has to do better for the sake of the animals.

I know that this is a lot of information to take in at once, but we will have info sheets and more before we officially start the program in February. We also will be opening our facility to the public 2-3 days a week for adoptions instead of requiring an appointment starting in February. We will announce which days and what times and it will be a set weekly schedule.

So…here’s the part that we need your help with. We have a good bit of the things that we need to start this program and to keep it going for a bit - however we do need donations to help keep this program going and to help keep our doors open in general. Like I said, it really has been a tough year. We have an Amazon Wishlist with a lot of things on it that will help us stock what we need to cover our bases for the community wellness program and we of course have bills to pay, lights to keep on, and mouths to feed daily so monetary donations are always appreciated as well.

We hope that you will join us on this endeavor to better animal welfare in Lawrence County and our tri-state area this year and we truly appreciate any support that you can show us with this. We don’t want people to feel hopeless and we don’t want animals to suffer or end up on the streets and this is something that we can do to help.

Please consider donating or checking out our Amazon Wishlist. We greatly need some items from there to get going and we greatly need your kindness and support going into this New Year! ❤️

✨AMAZON WISHLIST 👉🏻 https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/11GER8HG22HM2?ref_=wl_share

💕DONATE TODAY! 💕

💕 PayPal.me/pitifulpawsrescue
🌈 Venmo (tie dye profile pic)
✨ Cashapp $pitifulpawsrescue
💕 Mail to P.O. Box 690 Ona, WV 25545
🌈 You can ship any supplies, dog food, etc to 1020 county road 35 Chesapeake, OH 45619
💕 You can also simply click the donate button on this post!

Happy New Year from our pack to yours! 🐾💕 We hope that everyone has a safe and fun night! We love you all and we appreci...
01/01/2025

Happy New Year from our pack to yours! 🐾💕 We hope that everyone has a safe and fun night! We love you all and we appreciate you more than words can express.

Keep an eye on our page today! We have some fun announcements and news that we are excited to be sharing with you guys later today! 👀

P.s. As you are starting this New Year off, please consider going to www.campppr.com and scroll down until you see “Sign up for monthly donations.” This is through PayPal, you just click the button and follow their instructions from then on to complete setting it up . You can cancel it through PayPal at any time as well. But, it automatically is set up to donate to us once a month at any amount you set.

If you have a Krogers rewards card you can also choose us to be your preferred charity by logging into your account. This means every time you shop at Kroger, they are donating a percentage of that back to us! 🖤

Lawrence County HAS to start doing better. We personally saw results from this humane agent when a man threw kittens ont...
31/12/2024

Lawrence County HAS to start doing better. We personally saw results from this humane agent when a man threw kittens onto our property a few months ago and he did follow through with charges. However, this situation is unacceptable. The second picture is the horse in question, and the owner has been reported multiple times over the years by a local horse rescue.

Just a reminder that the humane agent is through the Lawrence County Humane Society which is different than the Lawrence County Animal Shelter - though they work together. The Lawrence county humane society does not have a facility and consists of basically a board of older members that fundraise and help the shelter and somehow are over the humane agent - these are the same people that thought 60+ dogs from a hoarding case (if you know you know) that we assisted with - we’re just fine and could be returned to the person even though we had full veterinary proof that they were in fact NOT in even close to good shape. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that this looks to be yet another great example of the good old boy system.

We. Have. To. Do. Better. And remember if you want to let someone know your displeasure with this situation to reach out to the actual Lawrence County Humane Society and not the animal shelter.

29/12/2024

The amount of emails we're getting because of dog bites is BANANAS. Guys- keep your guests and your dogs safe this holiday season! 🩷

24/12/2024

We sure hope not, but if you have an emergency over the Christmas holiday, please call:

Kanawha Valley Vet ER 304.768.2911

Tri State Animal ER
304.453.5700

We just wanted to say THANK YOUUUU to everyone that sponsored animals for Santa Paws this year, to everyone that sent go...
23/12/2024

We just wanted to say THANK YOUUUU to everyone that sponsored animals for Santa Paws this year, to everyone that sent goodies or donations, to everyone that stopped by or brought items from our wishlist or that just came by to grab some food! We are SO thankful for you guys every year!

We are a little exhausted from the big day, but we will be posting pictures and videos as we go through them! Thank you guys so much for always making the holidays so amazing for our animals! We love you all! ❤️🎅🏻

21/12/2024
SANTA PAWS IS TOMORROW! Please remember that we will also be having The Grillmaster's Grub food truck set up and they wi...
20/12/2024

SANTA PAWS IS TOMORROW! Please remember that we will also be having The Grillmaster's Grub food truck set up and they will be donating 20% of the proceeds of what they make tomorrow back to us! So even if you didn’t sponsor an animal for Santa Paws we want to see you all there! ❤️🎅🏻

If you can’t make it but would still like to send goodies for the animals, this is our generic Santa Paws (some of our most needed) items Wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3436R40Y0VXE4?ref_=wl_share

WE ARE LESS THAN ONE WEEK OUT FROM Santa Paws 2024 ! We are so excited! Don’t forget that we are having a food truck thi...
15/12/2024

WE ARE LESS THAN ONE WEEK OUT FROM Santa Paws 2024 ! We are so excited! Don’t forget that we are having a food truck this year so even if you just want to come grab some food, you’d still be helping support us! ❤️🎅🏻

We are in great need of some supplies at Camp PPR! We are in desperate need of paper towels, disinfectant wipes, disposa...
10/12/2024

We are in great need of some supplies at Camp PPR!
We are in desperate need of paper towels, disinfectant wipes, disposable gloves (like nitrile gloves/vinyl or exam gloves), scrub brushes, floor cleaner (like Lysol), etc! We are running very low on all of these! You can ship these supplies to us at 1020 county road 35 Chesapeake, OH 45619.

Amazon Wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2UIP8EHEFEGO2?ref_=wl_share

You can also drop supplies off at our facility in Chesapeake or at Guyan Animal Hospital in Huntington.

Directions to our facility: Use 1020 county road 35 Chesapeake, OH 45619 in your gps and that will bring you within half a mile of us (our actual address will take you somewhere way off in an opposite direction). Keep going past that address until you see a huge blue water tower and our sign. Turn in at the tower/sign and you will see our gate. To the left of the gate is our donation drop boxes!

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Wednesday 12:00 - 16:00
Thursday 12:00 - 16:00
Friday 12:00 - 16:00
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