Pleasant Pawz

05/04/2026

02/28/2026

Planning a summer getaway? Don't forget to make plans for your pets, too! Now booking through end of 2026, with prime vacation availability!

Relax in comfort knowing that your pets and home are cared for by a Fear-Free Certified Veterinary Technician. I'm insured and have multiple references available. Specializing in care of animals who need extra TLC or medications, I'm experienced with fur, feathers, scales, etc. even farm animals including horses, sheep, and chickens!

02/28/2026

Heading to WCOTC this morning to get Bella and I back into scentwork classes. So excited!

11/15/2025

💛 November is Adopt a Senior Pet Month! 💛

This month, we’re celebrating our golden oldies — the wise whiskers, gentle paws, and loving hearts of our senior shelter pets.

Older animals have so much love to give, and we can’t wait to show them off! 🐾 Over the next few days, we’ll be spotlighting our senior sweethearts — one at a time — so you can get to know the incredible pets waiting for their forever homes.

Stay tuned, fall in love, and help us give these seniors the happy endings they deserve. 💕

11/15/2025

10/15/2025

Why are shelters and rescues always full when you turn to them for help? 😫

It's simple math:
The amount of animals needing assistance FAR SURPASSES the amount of organizations trying to help.

The overpopulation crisis can be overwhelming, but the good news is that the suffering and deaths of homeless animals is ✨100% PREVENTABLE✨ through spaying and neutering.

Despite recommendations and urgings from nonprofit groups, veterinarians, and public shelters and a growing number of free and low-cost spay/neuter clinics, many people still fail to provide their animal companions with this routine, lifesaving medical procedure.

HOW CAN INDIVIDUALS HELP?
✅ Educate with spay/neuter and TNR information; assist folks if you can!
✅ Foster, if you are able, to free up more space within shelters and rescues.
✅ Find out how to participate in TNR in your community. Even one kitty at a time helps tremendously!
✅ Spay and neuter ALL of your companion animals.
✅ Adopt from reputable shelters and rescues. Not only are you saving that life, but you are opening up a spot for them to intake another animal in need.
❌ Don't hand out free, unaltered cats/kittens without an adoption process.
❌ Don't acquire free, unaltered cats/kittens unless you know you can afford to have them vetted.
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If you see this happening online, comment! Politely let folks know why this is risky and how it can add to the overpopulation problem. Don't be silent. We are their voice.

10/13/2025

❄️ It's going to get cold soon. Get those cat shelters ready now for your outdoor feline friends ... They will need them!!

*You can search 'outdoor cat shelters' on Google for detailed instructions and/or to see other community cat shelter options.

🚩'If cats still aren’t using the outdoor shelters, try to find where they are sleeping and then do what you can there to “upgrade” the spot by adding straw to their sleeping area.'

See these links for more winter weather tips: https://www.alleycat.org/resources/cold-weather-tips/

-OR-

https://www.neighborhoodcats.org/how-to-tnr/colony-care/feral-cat-winter-shelter

10/05/2025

❌ Blankets ❌ ✅ Straw ✅

We see it so much. Wonderful, well-meaning and compassionate people putting out totes to offer some shelter from the elements to outdoor cats. They will line their totes with a warm and cozy blanket or cat bed, thinking they are helping. This post cannot be shared enough.

09/30/2025

We get our fair share of calls about surrendering cats because they're peeing outside the litter box.

Our first two questions are:
1. Have you been to the vet for a THOROUGH exam;
2. Are they declawed.

Let's focus on the first one for a minute.

This is Wilhelmina. The brown stains on her fur are because she has been leaking urine, for months. She also has painful, open sores on her skin from urine scald. She cries out in pain when she pees.

Her owners brought her to a vet to euthanize her for peeing outside the box. :(

FORTUNATELY, Wilhelmina came our way. And *here's* the part you need to know.

If your pet is suddenly peeing outside the box, A URINALYSIS IS NOT ENOUGH TO DETERMINE IF THERE IS A MEDICAL CAUSE.

If your vet *only* does a urinalysis, ask them to follow up with an x-ray or ultrasound; and repeat that imaging again when symptoms pop up. A urinalysis may, but *does not always* show that your cat has painful bladder stones that can cause litterbox issues (among other symptoms, all of which are indications that your cat is IN PAIN).

And a round of antibiotics or even a prescription diet *doesn't always* get rid of the problem - the stones may require further testing (to determine the cause of the stones by their composite), or may need to be removed through surgery.

This is the third cat THIS YEAR we have gotten from a vet's office, minutes away from euthanasia, whose bladder stones went undetected by a urinalysis alone. This is not at all uncommon, people!

We're waiting on lab results to tell us why Wilhelmina's stones are so persistent to give us a better treatment course for her. In the meantime, she developed an Upper Respiratory Infection from the stress of shelter life :(

But at least now, she has a shot at a pain-free life