Four Paws Animal Clinic, Nevada City, CA

06/08/2026

Hoping no one is planning to take their dog to Mexico right now. Notice from APHIS.

06/02/2026

🐾 URGENT FOSTER NEEDED FOR MELLOW 🐾

Mellow needs a foster home within the next 3 days.
This handsome boy is an almost 2-year-old Catahoula/Australian Shepherd mix on the smaller side (about 50 lbs.) and is looking for a safe, loving place to stay for approximately 3 months while his family works through a temporary situation.

✨ About Mellow:
• Neutered/fixed
• Almost 2 years old
• About 50 lbs.
• Good with other dogs
• Sweet, affectionate, and loving
• Young and playful
Mellow is a wonderful dog who deserves stability, kindness, and a comfortable place to land during this short-term placement. We know his foster family is out there—we just need to find them quickly.
📅 Foster needed within 3 days 📧 [email protected] 🌐 www.pawssnc.org⁠

Please share this post. Even if you can't foster, a share could help us reach the person who can. ❤️🐾

05/04/2026

🐾 Be a Guardian. Be the Bridge. 🐾
When someone takes the courageous step of entering recovery, their beloved pets still need love, safety, and stability. At PAWSS, we make sure those pets don’t lose their families — they simply need a temporary Guardian until they can be reunited. 💙
That’s where you come in. As a PAWSS Guardian, you’ll provide comfort, care, and a safe home for an animal whose person is healing. In return, you’ll be part of something bigger: keeping families whole and giving both human and pet the chance to thrive again.

✨ PAWSS provides food, vet care, and supplies.
✨ You provide love, patience, and a safe place to call home.
Your kindness can change two lives at once. Will you answer the call and become a Guardian today?

📩 Message us to learn more, or share this post to help us find more hearts willing to open their homes!

04/20/2026

04/19/2026

Interesting study. If you have cats and smoke, you may want to only smoke outside.

Cats are uniquely vulnerable due to their grooming behavior. To***co smoke particles accumulate on their fur and are subsequently ingested, resulting in repeated oral and systemic exposure over time.

Higher risk has been observed in cats living in smoking households, particularly those exposed for five or more years or in homes with multiple smokers, compared to cats in non-smoking environments. Cats whose owners smoked 1–19 ci******es per day demonstrated a significant fourfold increase in the risk of oral squamous cell carcinoma.

The risk is not limited to oral tumors. Cats exposed to household to***co smoke have a 2.4-fold increased risk of malignant lymphoma (95% confidence interval: 1.2–4.5), rising to 3.2-fold after five or more years of exposure (95% confidence interval: 1.5–6.9). Notably, risk increases in a dose- and duration-dependent manner.

Beyond carcinogenesis, to***co smoke exposure disrupts the balance between oxidants and antioxidants in cats. Significant increases have been reported in total oxidant levels, oxidative stress index, lipid hydroperoxides, protein carbonyls, and advanced oxidative protein products, alongside decreased total antioxidant capacity and reduced antioxidant enzyme activity.

In parallel, exposed cats exhibit elevated pro-inflammatory signaling molecules, including interferon gamma, interleukin-1 beta, interleukin-2, and interleukin-6, indicating activation of systemic inflammatory pathways.

Bertone ER, Snyder LA, Moore AS. 2003. Environmental and lifestyle risk factors for oral SCC in cats. J Vet Intern Med.
Bertone ER, Snyder LA, Moore AS. 2002. Environmental to***co smoke and lymphoma risk in cats. Am J Epidemiol.
Köseoğlu E, Yıldırım F, et al. 2023. To***co smoke induces oxidative stress in cats. Vet Res Forum.

03/31/2026

Public service reminder: Easter lilies are 100% TOXIC to cats. This is not an exaggeration.

→ ALL parts of the Easter lily are toxic to cats: flowers, leaves, stems, pollen, and vase water
→ A cat licking pollen off its fur is enough to cause kidney failure
→ Symptoms begin within 6-12 hours: vomiting, lethargy, loss of appetite
→ Kidney failure develops within 24-72 hours
→ WITHOUT emergency treatment: fatal in 3-7 days
→ EVEN WITH treatment: not all cats survive

ALL lilies in the Lilium and Hemerocallis families are deadly to cats:
→ Easter lily
→ Tiger lily
→ Asiatic lily
→ Daylily
→ Stargazer lily
→ Japanese show lily

"But my cat never eats plants."
→ They don't have to EAT it
→ Brushing against it gets pollen on their fur
→ They groom themselves
→ They ingest the pollen
→ That's enough

If your cat contacts ANY lily:
→ Call your vet or ASPCA Poison Control (888-426-4435) IMMEDIATELY
→ Don't wait for symptoms
→ Early IV fluids can save their life
→ Every hour counts

SAFE ALTERNATIVES for cat households:
→ Orchids (non-toxic)
→ Roses (non-toxic)
→ Sunflowers (non-toxic)
→ Snapdragons (non-toxic)
→ Ge**er daisies (non-toxic)

Millions of Easter lilies are in homes this month.
Millions of cats live in those homes.

If you have a cat: NO LILIES. Period.

This post could save your cat's life. Share it. 🐱⚠️
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03/23/2026

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03/20/2026

So cool.

03/13/2026

Yay! Finally got around to getting a Web page upgrade! Please check it out.

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