"The
greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged
by the way its animals are treated."-
Mahatma Gandhi
HELP SPREAD THE WORD
We help to support many rescue organizations by providing
some of their vital information and links right here on
our web site! If you are a rescue/animal welfare organization
and would like to be included here, please send us an e-mail.
HELP SAVE A LIFE
We believe very strongly in helping to end the never-ending cycle of
killing millions of perfectly healthily, loveable dogs and cats. So
much of this needless killing could be prevented by spaying/neutering
your pets, to prevent the cycle of unwanted, homeless animals.
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OUR DONATIONS
We donate a portion of our profits to select animal welfare organizations
and local welfare organizations and charities. Here are just a few
of our local animal organizations that are close to our hearts:
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on our checkout page not showing a place to type in your charity code,
if your order was to have a
portion donated to a charity. If you have the code please email
us with the code so that we may donate to this charity. We apologize
for the inconvenience.
Dachshund Adoption Rescue and Education (DARE)
is a no-kill, non-profit, 501(c)3 rescue group. As such DARE specializes
in the rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing of dachshunds and dachshund-mixes
regardless of age or health-related issues. As all of the DARE members
are volunteers, 100% of every single penny donated to DARE is spent
to further DARE's mission of the rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing
of dachshunds. As a non-profit, 501(c)3 rescue, all donations to DARE
are tax-deductible and DARE will provide you with a receipt for all
donations to ensure you are able to take advantage of appropriate and
applicable tax deductions related to your DARE donations. Though not
a common occurrence, there may be instances where sufficient monies
are raised for the specified dog. Should this occur, additional monies
will be added to the DARE vetting fund used to pay for the ongoing
vetting expenses incurred by DARE dogs currently in care and new incoming
dogs.
SPOT's Mission is to Educate the community about
the Importance of Spay/Neuter, Training, Adoption and Responsible Pet
Care to help people keep their pets! We offer low cost spay/neuter
to prevent unwanted & accidental litters. Our Focus is Spay/Neuter
because it helps Save Thousands of Lives thru Prevention! Tragically
over 80,000 Cats & Dogs are turned into the shelters in the Tampa
Bay area each year and only One out Four will be adopted, the other
60,000 will be Euthanized. 75% of the animals in the shelters are mixed
breeds, this is a direct result of Pets Escaping to find a mate. Pet
Overpopulation is the number one killer of Cats & Dogs in America.
Spay/Neuter is the only Humane Solution to Pet Overpopulation! SPOT's
Goal is to raise $150,000 to open a low cost spay/neuter clinic so
everyone can afford to spay and neuter their pets!
C.A.R.E., is a non-profit, no-kill animal shelter
founded by Dr. Hal Ott of Ruskin Animal Hospital. Along with a dedicated
group of associates and community leaders in the South Bay area, Dr.
Ott provided the inspiration, leadership, and much of the financial
support to incorporate C.A.R.E. in 2000 and to open their physical
facility on 27th Street in Ruskin in mid-2001. Their purpose is to
rescue, provide shelter, medical care and adoption of neglected, abused,
and unwanted animals.
We also donate gift bags with goodies for parents that adopt a new
furry friend at: Critter Adoption and Rescue Effort, Inc.
A donation of 5% is given back to: Critter Adoption and Rescue Effort,
Inc., http://www.careshelter.org,
whenever the new parents make any future purchases at Pampered Paw
Gifts®, using a certificate number issued to them at the point
of adoption that is located inside the goodie bag.
As for human donations. Two of our gift box styles (noted on product
pages) that were purchased, Five (5) percent of price were donated
to a nonprofit working to end domestic violence.
http://www.hart90.org
HART is a no-kill animal rescue/support group, incorporated
in 1990, that takes in and rehomes stray, abused and unwanted dogs
and cats. Whether the animal is a give-up or a stray, HART works with
local veterinarians, trainers, foster homes, and kennels to provide
temporary care for the pet until s/he is placed in a loving, carefully-screened
forever home.
Due to our home check requirement, except in special circumstances,
HART can only adopt to people in the Washington, DC Metro Area (Northern
Virginia, Maryland, DC).”
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Florida Boxer Rescue,
Inc. is a 501c3 not-for-profit volunteer organization. We strive
to rescue unwanted and abandoned purebred Boxers in central and western
Florida and place them in safe, responsible, loving, PERMANENT
homes.
If you are looking to surrender or adopt a Boxer in northern Florida,
please visit our friends at B.A.R.C. for assistance. Likewise, please
contact Coastal Boxer Rescue if you live in the eastern or southern
parts of Florida and need assistance or adoption info.
CHIHUAHUA RESCUE AND TRANSPORT (CRT)
Our purpose is to extend public education and awareness
regarding abuse and neglect. In 2006, CRT placed several
hundred Chihuahuas and Chihuahua mixes in approved homes.
CRT requires an application, vet check, reference check
and home visit for each adopter.
CRT does not warehouse dogs in a shelter. As in most rescue
groups, our dogs are cared for in healthy, safe, loving
foster home environments. CRT foster parents work very hard
to be sure that their foster dog feels safe and loved while
working on housetraining, crate training, socialization,
etc. All our dogs are spayed/neutered, fully vaccinated,
heartworm tested, fecal tested, microchipped, on heartworm
preventative and have all other veterinary needs taken care
of (such as heartworm treatment, dentals, luxating patellas,
etc.) CRT is known, and has always been known, for taking
the injured, infirm and elderly Chihuahuas and Chihuahua
mixes. Please consider the adoption of one of these dogs
as well. Seniors and special needs dogs make great pets
too!
North Shore Animal League America is the world's
largest no-kill animal rescue and adoption center. Across
the country, we rescue, nurture and restore pets to happy
and healthy lives in loving homes. To date, we have rescued
close to 1 million dogs, cats, kittens and puppies.
Coast to Coast Dachshund Rescue, CCDR, was
formed in August 2000 as an all volunteer, 501(c)3 non-profit
organization. We are dedicated to rescuing Dachshunds
and Dachshund mixes all across the country and will help
all Dachshunds regardless of health or age. We are a nationwide
group and have rescued hundreds of dachshunds in the past
7 years! We take doxies from all walks of life, rehabilitate
them, treat any medical problems, and find them loving,
furever homes. Please go to our web site www.c2cdr.org
for further info and to check out our available doxies.
We ALWAYS need foster homes, volunteers and funds to help
all the doxies!
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Suncoast Basset Rescue is a not-for-profit,
volunteer effort that rescues Basset Hounds from abusive,
abandoned and unwanted situations just for the love of the
breed. Our organization gives bassets a second chance to
live, as they were intended as someone’s best animal
friend. Our rescue efforts began in 1997 with two volunteers
and help from the Suncoast Basset Hound Club of Tampa, Inc.
We have rescued over 2000 bassets since then. Today, Suncoast
Basset Rescue Inc is a 501c(3), not-for-profit organization
, which exists solely on donations.
Where do the dogs come from? Rescued bassets are from pounds,
shelters, humane societies, are strays whose owners cannot
be found or are relinquished by owners who no longer want
them. Bassets are given up for a variety of reasons. It
may be due to changing lifestyles, the economy, allergies
, and lack of responsibility of owners who no longer want
them. Sometimes they are given up because they were barking
frequently, asking merely for attention that they were not
receiving. At times, they are only hours from death. We
do our best to keep that from happening.
What do we do for the bassets? Suncoast Basset Rescue takes these orphaned
bassets into foster care, where they are loved and cared for until
permanent, forever homes are found. Suncoast provides veterinary care,
which includes vaccinations, spaying and neutering, heartworm prevention,
flea and tick prevention and good old TLC.
Who are the volunteers in basset rescue? Suncoast is not
a kennel. We do not have a paid staff. All of our workers
are volunteers who have full-time jobs and personal responsibilities.
but when we place a rescued basset in a loving, adoptive
home to live the rest of his/her life, it makes all those
volunteer hours worth every penny!
There are many times when we have way too many dogs coming
in and never enough of foster homes to place them in...
then comes along a wonderful human being who is so willing
to help the cause or a special basset who gives you that
wonderful, soulful look and it make it all worthwhile.
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The Pinellas Animal Foundation, a non-profit veterinary
and community partnership established in 1983, is dedicated to improved
animal care, guardian responsibility and increased awareness of the
value of the human/animal bond. Our goal is to enrich the lives of
animals and people of all ages through education and service programs.
Greyhound Pets of America Florida
Southeast Coast Chapter
GPA FL/SE is the Florida - Southeast Coast chapter of Greyhound
Pets of America. It is a 501(c)3 corporation organized and
run completely by volunteers who are dedicated to finding
responsible, loving homes for racing greyhounds who no longer
qualify to compete at the racetrack.
GPA FL/SE maintains a kennel for up to
9 greyhounds at a time and has a wonderful network of volunteers
who help with the 4 daily turnouts and 2 feedings. We are
always looking for additional volunteers.
As GPA FUSE is an entirely volunteer organization,
all funds received go to the care of the dogs, maintaining
the kennel, events which promote greyhound adoption and
Greyhound Pets Of America, Florida Southeast Coast and,
on occasion, purchasing items to be sold (at a profit) to
benefit our group at our events.
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Tampa Bay Beagle Rescue, Inc., is a non-profit
organization dedicated to rescuing and rehabilitating abused
and neglected Beagles so that they can find permanent, loving
homes. We are the only nonprofit organization in Florida
dedicated exclusively to rescuing Beagles
Yes, we were THE RESCUE RENEGADES and we soon
learned that many people had been waiting to support an
organization like Small Paws for quite some time! We could
see that we were indeed doing what God had wanted us to
do by the way the dogs...were affecting the people who were
adopting them!
Now Small Paws® Rescue has over 800 volunteers and
over 6000 supporters in 20 countries, making us the largest
rescue organization for Bichons (and Bichon Mixes) in existence
today.
We are an organization who believes in the miracle healing
power of prayer!
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GREAT, Inc. is a non-profit greyhound rescue
and adoption organization located in central Florida. We
find homes for greyhounds that can no longer compete in
racing. GREAT has placed over a thousand greyhounds since
1990.
Although we are not affiliated with the racing
industry, we do receive our dogs from the trainers and owners
who want to place their retired racers in private homes.
We also take in stray greyhounds that have been surrendered
to animal shelters.
The greyhounds we receive are evaluated through
our foster care program. Foster care provides a temporary
home for the greyhound during its transition from track
to home.
Our main objectives are to educate people
as to what wonderful pets greyhounds can be, to place greyhounds
in adoptive homes, and achieve greater public awareness
about the over-breeding of racing greyhounds and the mass
euthanasia that results due to this practice.
The success of our organization depends solely
on the efforts of volunteers, our network of foster parents,
and donations from the community.
Volunteering is a way you can help. GREAT
always needs volunteers to help with the dogs at public
appearances and other functions, such as fundraisers and
special events throughout the year. Please call 813-971-4732
if you are interested in becoming a volunteer.
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No More Homeless Pets in
Hillsborough County
Currently, almost 30,000 dogs and cats are
destroyed in our county each year due to overpopulation
– that’s one every 14 ½ minutes. No
More Homeless Pets in Hillsborough County is a coalition
of animal welfare groups and individuals working together
to end this tragedy in our community.
Mission
To end euthanasia as the primary means of
animal population control and enhance the quality of life
for the dogs and cats in Hillsborough County.
Vision
Every dog and cat in Hillsborough County
will live in a loving, safe, and healthy environment.
Goals
1. Reduce overpopulation through high volume spay/neuter
programs
2. Educate the community on animal welfare and overpopulation
3. Increase involvement from the community
4. Become the leading resource for integrating animal
welfare initiatives
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Lab Rescue of the Labrador Retriever Club of the Potomac
is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization (Non-Profit
Tax I.D. 52-1880024) with a two-fold mission: (1) we rescue,
foster and place homeless, abused, and/or abandoned Labrador
Retrievers (and Golden Retriever-Labrador Retriever mixes)
and (2) we provide a referral service for owners seeking
to place their Labradors in new homes. We are similar
to other animal placement groups such as shelters and
humane societies, but we specialize in Labradors. The
orphans we receive first are evaluated for temperament
and then placed with foster families where they are loved,
exercised and further evaluated as they await adoption.
All of our dogs are provided with rabies and distemper
shots, heartworm check and, if possible, spayed/neutered.
We place over 650 Labradors each year. You can reach us
at 301-299-6756 or write to us at P.O. Box 1741, Silver
Spring, Maryland, 20915.
The mission of the Gulf Coast Humane Society
is to provide humane care for surrendered animals in Southwest
Florida by offering refuge, providing medical care, and
facilitating an adoptive home.
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More
Animal Rescue Local and National Links
UPCOMING
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Previous Events 2007
April 2nd Annual St. Pete Times Ruskin
PetFest Ott's Off-Leash Dog Park, Ruskin
4/21 from 10AM to 2PM Pet Fashion Contest, Silly Pet Tricks,
Music, Food, Vendors & More. Pampered Paw Gifts
will be joining in the festivities and donating 2 gift baskets
to help the fund raiser for C.A.R.E.
The event was a great success! Here
are some photos from the PetFest enjoy!
MAY PetSmart Adoption Day Causeway Blvd.,
Brandon 5/19 from 10AM to 3PM (Pampered Paw Gifts
Will Be There Come Say Hello And Adopt A Friend)
SEPT. Pampered Paw Gifts will be donating 2 gift
baskets to help the fund raiser for Suncoast Basset Rescue,
INC. If you would like to donate, time,
money etc. contact Kathy at kipeacock@tampabay.rr.com,
all donations are very helpful from big
to small.
Sept. 23rd Caring Hands Animal
Hospital is happy to announce its 11TH
Annual Open House Dog Wash and Pet Adoption Day scheduled
for September 23rd 2007. The goal of this
day is to help raise money and awareness for local animal
welfare groups and to give them an opportunity to find new
families for some of their homeless animals. This year we
will be hosting many different 501(c) rescue groups representing
abandoned dogs, cats and rabbits. (Pampered Paw
Gifts will be donating a gift basket to help the fund raiser
for Caring Hands Animal Hospital.)
SEPT. 29 The 3rd annual "Paws
in the Park" dog event will be held from 9 a.m. to
1 p.m. on Sept. 29 in San Antonio City Park, 12202 Main
St., San Antonio. The event includes pet contests (dogs
dressed like princesses, people dressed like their dogs),
adoptable pet parade, a special blessing of the pets, pet
education, the latest in pet products and services and entertainment.
All proceeds will benefit Spay Pasco, a program designed
to assist dog and cat owners with spaying and neutering
costs. The event is sponsored by San Antonio Animal Hospital.
Free.
Hope to see you there! Pampered Paw
Gifts will be a setting up a booth and also donating 5%
of all proceeds to Spay Pasco. Pampered
Paw Gifts will be donating a gift basket to San Antonio
Animal Hospital.
If you would like to donate, time,
money etc. contact Becky Jones at sanantoniovets@earthlink.net
all donations are very
helpful from big to small.
The event
was a great sucess! Here are pictures of our booth: 
Rescued in Gulfport Event:
Rescued in
Gulfport Event
October
Oct.13th First Annual Race/Walk for the
Retired Racing Greyhounds Micanopy Pavilion • Okeeheelee
Park, WPB
October 21st 11:00-4:00 in Ocala Florida
Suncoast Basset Rescue's 2007 Howl-O-Weenie Party
October 27th Dalmatian
Rescue of Tampa Bay, Inc. is hosting a Happy
Dal-loween Picnic on Saturday, from 10am to 2pm at Lake
Park in Tampa. Awards and prizes will be given for Costume
Contests including: Overall Best, Scariest, Dog and Human
Pair, Funniest/Cutest. Lots of fun games to enter your best
friend in too. Wonderful raffle prizes and silent auction.
Yummy lunch for two legged attendees and treats for our
four-legged pals. So plan on joining us for a fun filled
spook-tacular day! (Pampered Paw Gifts Will Be There
Come Say Hello and we will be donating a gift basket for
the event.)
November
Nov 3rd 9-2 NMHP Adoption
Expo@Tampa Fairgrounds (Pampered Paw Gifts will
be helping out and donating a gift basket for the event.)
Nov. 8th 5-8pm Dine-In Fundraiser @Sweet
Tomatoes-Brandon
Nov. 17th 10-3 Petsmart (Causeway-Brandon)
Nov. 29th 6-10pm Capitale, NYC
Be there for North Shore Animal League America’s Red
Carpet gala as Master of Ceremonies ABC-TV Good Morning
America Weather Anchor Sam Champion, greets an expected
crowd of 500 people, many attending with their dogs, all
there to applaud short videos, created by celebrities, of
themselves and their pets. The film-making celebrities will
all be vying for movie star-style honors, the DogCatemy
Awards, to be hosted that evening by Fox TV News Celebrity
Reporter Toni Senecal. The categories include “Best
Pawformance” “Best Dogumentary” “Best
Tail-Waggin’ Comedy,” “Best Musical,”
and “Best in Show”.
In addition, the League will introduce the Grand Prize
Winner of its first national DogCatemy PetFlix Online Video
Contest, “My Pet’s Got Talent,” and show
the winning entry.
Join the fun and festivities with our spokesperson, Beth
Ostrosky, and a host of other celebrities. Purchase your
tickets early so you and your pet don't miss out on the
opportunity to rub elbows -and paws- with the famous!
All proceeds from this event support North Shore Animal
League America 's mission of rescuing pets throughout the
world and placing them in loving homes.
December
Nov. 23rd - Dec. 31st Holiday Tree of
Lights @ CARE Shelter
December 8th SPOT's Holiday Pet Festival,
Pet Walk & Adoptathon! 9:00-1:00 Azalea Recreation-1600-72nd
St. N. St. Petersburg
Dec. 15th 10-4 Photos w/Santa Claws @PetsMart-Brandon
Dec. 15th Gulf Coast Humane Society, Inc's
Second Annual Animal Lovers Gala- 6:00 - 10:00 PM Hyatt
Regency Coconut Point Resort & Spa in Bonita Springs,
FL Tickets: $125 per person; available by calling 239.332.0364
x308
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ANIMAL RESCUE
Local and National LINKS
Wonderful organizations dedicated to the end of so much animal suffering.
Please if can you help in any way, it would mean so much.
Pasco County Animal Services
http://www.pascocountyfl.net/menu/index/acindex.htm
Pet Finder
Petfinder is an on-line, searchable database of animals
that need homes. It is also a directory of over 9,000 animal
shelters and adoption organizations across the USA, Canada
and Mexico. Organizations maintain their own home pages
and available pet database. http://www.petfinder.com/
Pets 911
Great web site for pet adoption and awareness. http://www.pets911.com
Puppy Mill Rescue
Created to locate, foster, vet, and place in forever loving
homes, purebred dogs previously used as breeders in Puppy
Mills and Commercial Kennels. We house feed, rehabilitate,
socialize, seek medical attention for, and spay/neuter the
dogs rescued from a life of pain. Puppy Mill Rescue's motto
is "One dog at a time." http://www.puppymillrescue.com
Second Chance for Animals, Inc.
Second Chance for Animals, Inc. is a not-for-profit volunteer
group devoted to enhancing the lives, adoption rates, and
experiences of the animals living in shelters. http://www.secondchanceforanimals.org
Small Dog Rescue and Adoption
Online adoption advising charity.
Hearts United For Animals
A no-kill shelter, sanctuary and animal welfare
organization dedicated to the relief of suffering. http://www.hua.org
To provide a quality, affordable and accessible opportunity for people
spay and neuter their companion animals so that someday we can end
pet overpopulation in Hillsborough County. http://actampa.org
"He who is cruel to
animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can
judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
- Immanuel Kant
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