June is National Adopt-A-Cat Month

Love is priceless... and so is adoption.

 

Did you know that June is National Adopt-A-Cat Month?  PAWS is celebrating by waiving the adoption fee on adult bonded pairs and senior cats, seven years and older.  We hope you’ll celebrate with us by welcoming a new feline into your family, and during the month of June adoption fees are on us!

We have many deserving cats in need of a good home, like 11-year-old Lucy.  Lucy was surrendered to PAWS because someone in her previous home developed allergies.  She was understandably a little nervous when she first arrived amongst all the new sights, smells and sounds.  But Lucy has since come out of her shell, and this loving, purring machine is looking for a home where she will get plenty of lap time and a nice big window for bird watching!

Adult cats make wonderful companions for any household.  Whether you are looking for a frisky, playful companion or a low-key lap cat, you’ll find the perfect pet at PAWS.  And best of all, if you adopt a bonded pair or a senior kitty this month, we’ll waive the adoption fee!

Come meet Lucy and other great cats like her at PAWS during the month of June and bring home your own furry new friend.  

Love really IS free during Adopt-A-Cat Month at PAWS!

 

Stock Your Pantry and Save Animal Lives!

Pack Your Pantry for PAWS

Want to help animals by doing something that is already part of your weekly routine?  Make a difference by shopping at Whole Foods Market on Tuesday, June 5!  Grab your shopping bags and head to one of the six Seattle Metro locations on Tuesday, June 5 for the Whole Foods Community 5% Day to benefit PAWS.

Whole Foods Market will donate 5% of their total sales on June 5 from all of the six Seattle-area locations to save the lives of animals in need.

Start making your list today and join us at your local Whole Foods Market on Tuesday, June 5 at any of the following locations:

• Interbay: 2001 15th Ave West
• Roosevelt Square: 1026 NE 64th St
• Westlake: 2210 Westlake Ave
• Bellevue: 888 116th Ave NE
• Redmond: 17991 NE Redmond Way
• Lynnwood: 2800 SW 196th Street

 

With a simple grocery list, you can help PAWS save animal lives!  Mark your calendars and save your shopping for Tuesday June 5 at Whole Foods Market.  There will be PAWS representatives at each Whole Foods Market location so be sure to stop by and say hello! 

Save lives by shopping at Whole Foods Markets on Tuesday June 5 for Whole Foods Community 5% Day!

 

Foster Care Heroes: Chronicles of a Cat Lover

 

The first one was a ploy to warm her husband to the idea of adopting. The second and third were to replace the void left when she had to give back the first.  For PAWS foster parent Brooke Freeburg, each one of the many animals she has fostered holds a special place in her heart.

For Freeburg and her husband, opening their heart and home to provide temporary care for cats, kittens, dogs and puppies is a benefit that far outweighs the cost. Caring for these helpless animals until they are ready for adoption, says Freeburg, is the ultimate reward.

"It's so easy, and we get so much out of it" she says.  "There is nothing like coming home from work and having a cat crawl up onto your lap for a snuggle."

In fact, Freeburg enjoys fostering so much that she started her own blog—The Foster Cat Chronicles—to document the joys of caring for these purring companions, like kittens Boone and Johnny Kyler (pictured above).

When it comes time to say goodbye, Freeburg says that she is comforted knowing that PAWS staff take great care to find the perfect home for each and every animal she fosters.

"They try to find the perfect match so that both human and animals are happy" she says.  "I really like PAWS, and that is why I foster."

PAWS relies on foster parents like Freeburg to help prepare the animals for adoption into loving forever homes.  In turn, foster parents are able to experience the joy of seeing a young, feeble infant grow into a healthy adult, or a sick animal nursed to health. 

Says Freeburg, "The joy and excitement that I feel when I see that one of them was adopted makes everything worth it." 

 

PAWS is always looking for more foster homes, especially throughout the busy spring and summer seasons.  If you are interested in becoming a foster care volunteer, visit our website or call 425.787.2500 x822 to get started. 

Save a life by joining the PAWS Foster Care Program!

PAWS' Unsung Heroes

You Don't Need to Be a Superhero to Save a Life.

Little Mallory looks up with watery eyes and lets out a plaintive cry.  Carefully reaching her tiny arm through the cage door, she tries to catch the attention of anyone passing by.  This helpless one-month-old kitten was surrendered by her guardian to PAWS, but she is not yet old enough to be adopted so she will spend the next several weeks in the home of a PAWS Foster Care volunteer.

These foster parents are the unsung heroes of direct animal care at PAWS.  They are the ones who lovingly care for animals with kennel cough, or who get up in the middle of the night to bottle feed a litter of kittens.  With the help of these amazing foster parents, the PAWS Foster Care Program gives animals who are not yet ready for adoption a chance to live and be loved in foster homes.

Foster parents provide temporary care for cats, kittens, dogs and puppies in their own homes. Some animals need as little as two weeks of care, while others may need care for up to three months.  Through this incredible program, we are able to:

• Provide a safe, comfortable place for animals to recover from an illness or stress.
• Prevent overcrowding in our shelter. 
• Increase adoptions by better preparing animals to be social, loving, well-adjusted members of the family.

PAWS is always looking for more foster homes, especially throughout the busy spring and summer seasons.  If you are interested in becoming a foster care volunteer, visit our website or call 425.787.2500 x822 to get started. 

Save a life by joining the PAWS Foster Care Program!

 

Spruce Elementary Pet: Meet Badger & Little Bit

 

What was it about these roly-poly Dachshunds that caught the attention of the second grade students in Miss Jennie Warmouth's class?  The fact that they are best buddies!  The students know that sometimes it can be difficult to find homes for a bonded pair of animals, so they wrote this adoption profile to help them find the perfect forever family together.

And it worked!  The perfect family came along and fell in love with these two sweet pups.  Thanks to the creativity of the Spruce Elementary students, Badger and Little Bit now have a forever home and family of their own. Read the profile that helped them get adopted below!

 

Badger and Little Bit are best friends. They want to stay together forever in a FOREVER HOME!

Badger is spectacularly stealth and Little Bit is just A LITTLE BIT TOO CUTE! These two are like TWO PEAS IN A POD!  This duo will benefit from some regular exercise and playtime.

Badger loves snuggling little stuffed animals. Little Bit can be a little bit shy but guess who helps her feel brave? Her bestie, Badger!

They are compassionate critters and we think they hold the key to YOUR HEART!  Do you have a big enough heart to love this paw-fect pair?

 

POP QUIZ:

Q. Whose name starts with a “B”? 
Answer: Badger

Q. Whose name starts with “L”?
Answer: Little Bit

Q. Who is going to fall in love with them both?
Answer: YOU!!!

 

GiveBIG and Give Animals a Second Chance

GiveBIG for the animals!

GiveBIG to PAWS on Wednesday, May 2 and your gift will get even bigger!

For the second year, The Seattle Foundation is hosting GiveBIG, a community-wide day of online charitable giving. Last year, The Seattle Foundation helped raise more than four million dollars for local non-profits, including PAWS, when we received $5,835 in donations directly from this one-day event. These generous gifts helped care for hundreds of animals at PAWS last summer.  

Donate to PAWS through The Seattle Foundation website on Wednesday May 2, and your gift will get even bigger!  For every donation made to PAWS through GiveBIG on May 2, a portion of a donation pool provided by The Seattle Foundation and other sponsors will be donated to PAWS.

GiveBIG Facts:

• GiveBIG is ONE DAY ONLY – Wednesday, May 2.
• You can donate to PAWS from midnight to midnight on May 2 through the The Seattle Foundation website. Using their website is the only way for your GiveBIG donation to be counted toward the campaign.
• Donate with your credit card or debit card only. Donor Advised Funds through The Seattle Foundation are not eligible for GiveBIG.

If you have any questions about GiveBIG, please contact Tana Feichtinger at tfeichtinger@paws.org or 425.412.4024.

Thank you for your BIG, generous support of PAWS!

Spruce Elementary Pet: Meet Cinnamon

 

It's spring break, so what sort of activities do you think the second grade students at Spruce Elementary are up to?  Writing adoption profiles for the animals at PAWS!  Teacher Jennie Warmouth and students Brian, Chi Chi and Jessica took time out of their busy spring break schedules to create this adorable profile for PAWS kitty Cinnamon in hopes that someone would read it and want to take her home.

And it worked!  The students perfectly captured Cinnamon's sweet nature—sugar, spice and everything nice.  As a result, Cinnamon was adopted and has gone to her forever home!  Read the profile that helped Cinnamon get adopted below.

 

There’s only one thing sweeter than a SWEET-HEART and that’s CINNAMON!  She is the most beautiful brown-orange and gray little kitty who just wants to curl up in your lap like a cinnamon roll!

All she wants are gentle pets along her smooth furry coat. You can count on her to purr and purr all day in your cozy lap.

Cinnamon is only three years old! Her green eyes sparkle like the purest sugar!  She’s playful, well mannered and ready to give you all of her heart.

 

 

PAWS Gala a Wild Success

 

Maya Starbuck flashes a giant smile as she throws her card high in the air.  "I am glad I was able to donate and put my bidder number to work" she grins.  Last Saturday night, she and fellow guests at the annual PAWS Wild Night Gala enjoyed an evening of cocktails, delicious food and bidding on incredible packages in our auction while raising a record-breaking $400,000 for PAWS!

The evening was emceed by KING 5 anchor Mark Wright who kept our guests engaged and entertained, while auctioneer Laura Michalek kept the crowd buzzing with energy and helped deliver the highest donation numbers in PAWS Wild Night history.

We would like to express our sincerest thanks to everyone who came out in support of the animals; your dedication, passion and generosity made this year's PAWS Wild Night a tremendous success.  We would also like to thank our wonderful sponsors!  Your support allows us to continue working to save animals' lives, and ensure a better tomorrow for the animals in our community. 

If you missed the event, you can still make your tax deductible donation online. We are very excited to announce to you that next year’s PAWS Wild Night will again be at the Fremont Studios on Saturday, April 6, 2013!

Thank you for supporting PAWS Wild Night!

 

Wild About Our Sponsors

 

We are less than a week away from PAWS Wild Night 2012, Seattle's largest (and wildest) gala benefit for animals and we couldn't be more excited!  Guests will enjoy an evening of drinking, dancing and fun — not to mention a live and silent auction with incredible packages and items to bid on, plus a delicious vegan/vegetarian dinner catered by Wild Ginger!

And of course we would not be able to put on such an incredible event without the support of our generous sponsors.  It is with great appreciation that we thank and acknowledge our PAWS Wild Night 2012 sponsors at the Defender ($5,000), Protector ($2,500) and Guardian ($1,000) levels:

Defender Sponsors:  Roscoe's Ranch, NorthWest Auto Salon, BlackRock

Protector Sponsors:  Lane Powell PC, Fremont Studios, Kelly Printing & Graphics, Whole Foods Market, B. Sparks Photography, SGFS (Schlemlein Goetz Fick & Scruggs, P.L.L.C.)

Guardian Sponsors:  bash & bloom, Advisory Services and Investments, The Alford Group, Clark Nuber P.S., Lake Union Veterinary Clinic, Seattle Weekly, Wild Ginger, Bergevin Lane Vineyards, Harlequin Wine Cellars, PetHub, Seattle Bash, Maxwell Hotel

Your generous support allows us to continue working to save animals' lives, and ensure a better tomorrow for the animals in our community. 

Thank you for supporting PAWS Wild Night 2012!

 

Spruce Elementary Pet: Meet Louie

 

Giants are usually pretty scary, but the second grade students in Miss Jennie Warmouth's class at Spruce Elementary certainly aren't afraid of our gentle giant Louie!  These creative and compassionate students recognized that all Louie wants is a loving home and family of his own.  Plus, just like the students, Louie loves playtime with his friends!

The students came up with a handful of wonderful things about Louie that would make him the perfect companion—including his impeccable manners and how he's learning new tricks with clicker training at PAWS. Read his new adoption profile below, and take a look at this adorable video of Louie shaking hands with a PAWS staff member!

 

LOUIE IS A CUTIE!

He’s an eight-year-old gentleman.

Louie had a “ruff” start but he still has the courage to be your best friend.  If you are willing to respect him, you might be the right person for Louie! 

If you like Huskies – he’s your DAWG! Are you a responsible and compassionate citizen? Louie is responsible and respectful too.  It would be the perfect match!

Louie is just a loving, happy dog who wants to make his human companion happy as well.

Will you be that person?