Paw of the Family

11/03/2025

It's 4AM, and I (Ryan) am not sleeping well right now recovering from surgery, so I am catching up on admin work for the business.

We have 7 dogs, and I love them all, but this guy right here, Louie is his name, is MY dog. I'm in the computer room working, and instead of staying in bed with Jessica and the other doggos, he is here with me in the computer room with his favorite toy, sleeping in here to be close to me.

I love this dog so very very very much (I love them all, but this is my boy 🐶).

Best dog on the planet and we can fight over that 💪😜

10/30/2025

30% off Halloween toys! Come on in folks. We gotta get this done so we can start on Christmas stuff Nov 1st!

10/27/2025

🎃🐾 DOGGY COSTUME CONTEST RESULTS ARE IN! 🐾🎃

First off, a HUGE thank-you to everyone who participated in our annual Howl-O-Ween Costume Contest! We laughed, we “aww’d,” and yes — a few of us may have snorted our coffee during judging (looking at you, taco dog who refused to sit still).

👑 Drumroll, please... 👑

🏆 1st Place: Danny and Sandy!
These two stole the show and our hearts — straight out of Grease, cruising through the competition with leather jackets, perfect hair, and enough charm to make us all sing “You’re the One That I Want.” 💃🐾

🥈 2nd Place: Fiesta!
These pups brought the party — bright colors, big energy, and maybe one too many treats. Fiesta definitely lived up to the name and proved that every day can be a celebration when you’ve got that kind of bark-titude! 🎉🌮

💬 Honorable Mentions:

Black Labbath – the most metal dog in town. Rock on, fuzzball. 🤘🐶

Toto and Dorothy – following the yellow brick road straight to our hearts. 💛🌪️

Wednesday Addams – serving spooky realness with a side of deadpan sass. 🖤🎩

We want to give a round of applause (and a few extra treats) to every furry contestant who strutted their stuff. You made it nearly impossible to choose — and that’s saying something because our judges included three humans, one cat, and a very opinionated parrot.

From all of us at Paw of the Family and Animal Rescue Crusaders of Texas, thank you for keeping the tails wagging, the laughter flowing, and the spirit spooky.
Now if you’ll excuse us… we have glitter, fur, and a suspicious amount of dog treats to clean up. 😂🐕

10/25/2025

Hey Paw Family!!!!!!

Exciting News, and we need your help, we cannot do this without you.

We have opened up Nationwide Shipping to 48 States! This will allow us to just focus on our 1 location right here in Anna where we love AND be able to continue to grow.

How do we need your help?

Please share this everywhere you can. Any comment you leave, every share, reaction, or any engagement we get on the post will push it higher into feeds and Facebook Algorithms and get more eyes on it all over the US.

We aren't a big corporation with an unlimited marketing budget, but what we have that they don't is you.

We love you our Paw Family, together from our little town of Anna, Tx, we can take on anybody and take the US by storm 💪🐶🐱

10/24/2025

We got a turkey!!!!! It may or may not be wearing a FROMM shirt 🤣

10/22/2025

Testing out the new brand Raw Dynamics that we saw today at the Pet Expo. You all know we don't sell products in the store that we wouldn't feed or use with our own animals.

This frozen raw brand is really cool because instead of big nuggets and patties, it's small cubes that don't freeze together and thaw within 5 minutes, so you don't have to keep meals in the fridge to thaw. We are testing that out and it works! It thawed within 5-10 minutes and the dogs loved the rabbit flavor!

10/21/2025

So, after the anniversary event, we've been very tired lol. We weren't sure we were going to go but our distributor called us this morning and told us we needed to be at the product expo today.

Sooooooo, long story short, we saw alot of new products today, and we made some awesome new deals and contracts with vendors.

In addition, we purchased the items they had on the showcase floor for ridiculous deals, so that we can bring them back to the store and let our customers try them on the cheap, and we learned a lot of really good and cool information!

One tid bit we learned for example is that the Green Juju Goat Milk we sell is certified human grade and sold to Humans in Pennsylvania, and it's the exact same milk we sell in store. Due to laws, that is all the info I can say and will not advertise it to people, but I'm proud to sell products that are above and beyond.

All the pictures featured are all things we bought today and you will see in the store for really good deals to try.

10/19/2025

There is a thank you that I left off, and I'm sitting here eating a sandwich from them and I need to make sure that they know how thankful and appreciative we are.

Stephen Heine, thank you so very very very much for all that you have done for us, not just yesterday. The food was excellent and I've been eating it for 2 days. It got us through yesterday, and I came back for more today. Don't get me started on the sugar cookie, i ate all of them.......

Thank you!

10/19/2025

Hey Paw Family,

Ryan here, laying on the couch, reviewing reports and numbers for distributors that I have to send in starting Monday. Looking at these reports in utter, dumbfounded, disbelief.

Y'all are such wonderful, amazing, small business supporting, dream fulfilling, pet loving, just down right good loving people that I am honored and thankful to know and serve.

Every single one of our Paw Family Members, you have made dreams come true. Without you, we wouldn't be here, could not do what we love to do, we wouldn't get to recreate the old hometown feed store that I have in my memory from my childhood, and I wouldn't get to see the tears of happiness that you caused on my wife today.

I wish there was more we could do to give back to you, for the life that you have given us.

To the ones that have been with us since Day 1, and to the ones that we just met today, and everyone in between, from the absolute very bottom of my heart and beyond, Thank you so so very much for all that you do for us. We will not stop trying to do and be better for you.

10/18/2025

10/18/2025

Wow. Thank you all so so so so so so so so so so so much!