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We are getting several requests each week from people wanting us to fly our puppies out to distant locations across North America. Paws and Claws Animal Rescue Foundation regrets that we cannot accomodate these requests. We require a face-to-face meeting with potential adopters, and we like to do homevisits. Additionally, it is too stressful for a young puppy to go through the rigors of flying. We will consider potential adopters from across Alberta, Eastern British Columbia, and Western Saskatchewan. (Additionally, it is possible for families from Northern Montana, Northern Idaho, and North-Eastern Washington to drive to where our puppies are located, though keep in mind that in addition to up to a dozen hours of driving (one way), you might be held up for many many hours at the border.) All of our puppies must remain in care for a minimum of two weeks to ensure they are healthy; the one you are interested in may not be able to leave with you on the day you visit. We do not have a shelter- our puppies are housed in private homes. All visits to our volunteer foster homes are by appointment.

Paws and Claws Animal Rescue Foundation would like to thank our awe-inspiring foster parent Jodi . We do not have a shelter facility, and therefore can only rescue as many animals as we have room for in the foster homes. When volunteers go out to the reserves our mandate serves and call the foster parents to see how many animals they can accommodate, Jodi is the one who simply says, "Yup. Bring 'em!" Jodi has set up several kennels and has recruited her amazing family's help. (Huge thanks also to Tim, Hudson, Alanna, and Karissa). The beautiful pictures of her foster babes are taken by Jodi herself. Many dogs owe their lives to Jodi; she has adopted out well over a HUNDRED dogs since February!!

To read more about what our organization does, and to see more of the animals we rescue please visit our website at www.pawsandclawsanimalrescue.ca.

"Courtesy Adoptions" on our website features more animals in other rescues. We partner with other local organizations to help find homes for the animals in their systems too. Please visit the page to see cats and adult dogs. Keep scrolling down, as there is no particular order; adopted profiles are intermixed with adoptable.

We are grateful to Parkland Safeway in Red Deer for choosing Paws and Claws Animal Rescue Foundation as its feature charity.

If you would like to make a secure donation to Paws and Claws Animal Rescue Foundation, it will make a great deal of difference to at least one dog or cat. No one who works with our organization is paid; all the funds go straight to the animals. Paws and Claws is a registered charity, and as such we are able to issue charitable tax receipts. We will be happy to send you a tax receipt for amounts $20 and up.

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We will be conducting spay and neuter clinics this fall and spring to help cut down on the numbers of unwanted animals in Alberta. One dog and her offspring can produce 6500 puppies in just five years. One cat and her issue may have as many as 420 000 kittens in seven years!

Sunchild and O'Chiese Reserves are located in fairly remote areas. Bringing dogs off these two reserves and transporting them to the veterinarians is a fairly arduous task. It takes our volunteers a minimum of four hours to drive there and then back with a load of dogs. Finding a female to spay who isn't pregnant or nursing pups, and has its owner at home to give permission for the surgery is another onerous task. It usually takes our volunteer many hours to find several females to bring in to spay. Then we must house these dogs overnight, and get them in to the vet when the clinic opens. After the surgery they are picked up, and we must again house them overnight. Finally the next day a volunteer must drive the altered dogs back to their homes on the reserves and return home herself- another minimum four hour driving trip.

Paws and Claws provided the transportation and paid for the spaying of two female dogs, Sasha and Candy, who live on the reserves our mandate serves on August 9th, 2006. This will prevent up to 13 000 unwanted puppies from being born in the next five years! Sunshine, one of the dogs in care, was also spayed that day.

We put your adoption fees to excellent use! Our charitable foundation brought three females off the reserves to spay on August 15, 2005. Spaying Foxy, Nemo and Pickles will prevent up to 19 500 unwanted dogs from being born in the next five years!

One of our volunteers brought in three adult females to spay on August 23, 2006. Again, 19 500 unwanted dogs will not be produced in Alberta now that Poppy, Casey and Sweet Pea are spayed. Mattaea also came into care this day, and will be spayed once her milk dries up.

Once the school year began, the volunteer who picks up the spay females was no longer able to dedicate several days in a row to this endeavour as she is a teacher. Now she brings in the spay females to Red Deer where Jodi takes over, housing the "girls" and driving them to the vet for their surgeries and back. Our teacher-volunteer then drives out from Edmonton, picks up more females to spay on the reserves our mandate serves, takes them to Red Deer, trades them at Jodi's for last week's girls, returns the dogs to their homes on the reserves, and then drives home! It is a long exhausting day, but the desire to prevent another 19 000 unwanted dogs from being born motivates each of these volunteers every week.

Three young females who live in the same yard on the Sunchild Reserve were spayed on September 12, 2006. There is one more female from that yard who needs to be spayed as well, but she is still too young for the surgery. Spaying Blue, Bubbles and Princess will prevent 19 500 unwanted dogs from being born over five years.

September 26, 2006- Paws and Claws brought Shea and Scruffy in from the reserves to spay. We could not find another female who was not in heat, nursing, or pregnant as a third, but we had Mattaea (one of the dogs in care, mother of the Presidential Suite) spayed instead. Happily, our efforts this day translate into another 19 500 fewer unwanted puppies over the next five years in Alberta.

October 1, 2006 - Our volunteer brought in Bear and the Mother of Sonny and Bono in to spay. Camilla, one of the dogs in care, (mother of the Candy Shop,) will also be spayed this week.

October 7, 8 & 9 - no dogs were brought in to be spayed over the Thanksgiving Weekend

October 14 and 15 - Our volunteers were working our booth at the Women's Show in Edmonton at the Northlands AgriCom.

October 24, 2006 - Paws and Claws Animal Rescue Foundation brought three female dogs to Parkland Veterinary Hospital to be spayed. Winslee is the mother of "The Troopers" and "Larry, Curly and Mo". Baby is the mother of "The Toone Crew". We weren't given Skippy's puppies, but she is the daughter of Camilla, one of the dogs in our care. She and Camilla were the dogs who fought when they had puppies at the same time; Camilla came into care because her milk bag had been torn open and she needed veterinary attention. All is forgiven, however... Jodi went out to feed the dogs one morning and was alarmed to find Skippy's kennel empty. Then she looked into Camilla's run, and there was Skippy lying with her momma! Skippy had dug out of her run and into Camilla's to be with her. Spaying Winslee, Baby and Skippy will prevent up to 19 500 unwanted puppies from being born in Alberta in the next five years.

October 29, 2006 - Two females, the mothers of "The Gangsters", were brought in to be spayed. We could only get two spay appointments this week.

November 5 and 12th weekends- There was no room at the Inn to bring in any females to spay. All of our foster homes were full, and no one was able to care for the females for a week. If you would be interested in fostering, please e-mail Janet at janet@pawsandclawsanimalrescue.ca.

November 19, 2006 - Brownie (II) and Kenya were brought in to spay. Kenya is the mother of Peanut and Nique. Kenya was a stray, and the family who looked after her do not want her back. She has entered our system, and is being treated for mange, worms and malnourishment. This affectionate and enthusiastic young adult will be available for adoption once she is healthy. We could only get two spay appointments this week at the vet's.

November 26, 2006 - It was -40 with the windchill this weekend. It was deemed too dangerous to travel in this kind of weather to the remote areas our charity's mandate serves, particularly as cell phone service there is also sporadic.

December 3, 2006 - Our volunteer picked up Juju and Georgina to spay this week. Juju is the mother of Bear, one of the previous spay females. Due to this spay procedure, there will be as many as 6500 fewer pitbull puppies born in Alberta in the next five years! Georgina is entering the Paws and Claws foster system! We also spayed one kitty this week, preventing up to 420 000 unwanted kittens from being born in Alberta over the next seven years.

December 10, 2006 - Simba and Nala live in the same yard on the O'Chiese Reserve. They both had puppies this winter; both litters froze in the extreme cold. They will only have themselves to fend for from now on! Spaying these two gals will prevent up to 13 000 unwanted puppies from being born into Alberta in the next five years. We spayed another cat this week as well, preventing another 420 000 unwanted cats from being produced into our province in the next seven years.

December 17, 2006- Our volunteer drove to many yards searching for two females to spay (we could only get two appointments this week at our vet's.) Janet had no luck until she went into Ashes' yard. There she also found poor Brutus. Paws and Claws volunteers aren't set up to take large males who might potentially break out of our dog-runs and fight our own males, but our volunteer couldn't leave Brutus behind to suffer. One of Brutus' eyes was just a swollen mass of pus. She loaded him into the second crate, drove to Red Deer, and met the emergency on-call vet at his clinic.

Spaying Ashes will prevent up to 6500 unwanted puppies from being born into the world in the next five years. Neutering Brutus will keep him from wanting to get into fights over females and receiving another eye like this one! Later in the week Janet had to drive another four hours to get Brutus from the vet and take him back to her home to foster, as no one else was able to. Jodi took her adult foster female so Janet's run would be available for Brutus. Brutus needs daily eye washing and antibiotics for two weeks.

December 24, 2006- No trip was made out to the reserve over the Christmas holidays.

January 1, 2007- No trip was made out to the reserve over New Years.

January 7, 2007- Our volunteer attempted the trip out to the reserves, but ended up rolling her vehicle in the ditch after hitting black ice. We will have to wait for her vehicle to be fixed before anymore dogs can be brought off the reserves. (Janet is fine, and no animals were in the vehicle with her.)

May 12, 2007- We're back on the road again! All of the repairs to fix the winter damage to our kennels has been completed (huge thanks to Gabe, Jodi, Tim and Dale!) so Jodi is again ready to take in foster dogs. Janet's vehicle has also now been repaired (thanks to Lawrence and Ivan) and she is back on the road. Janet brought in thirteen puppies, dogs, cats and kittens from the two reserves our mandate serves. We will spay the adult dog (Melissa) and cat (name coming soon) as soon as they have stopped nursing and their milk dries up. Spaying Melissa will result in up to 6500 fewer unwanted dogs in Alberta over the next five years. Spaying kitty will result in up to 450 000 fewer unwanted cats over seven years!

May 26, 2007- 'Lady' was brought in to be spayed. Altering this blue-eyed beauty will prevent up to 6500 unwanted dogs from being born into AB over the next 5yrs.

May 20, 2007- We spayed 'Girl', who is the mother of the litter we called "The Travelers". Now Girl will just have to look after herself instead of litter after litter of puppies.

Paws and Claws needs straw bales for our winter shelter program; the animals still on the reserves desperately need something to burrow in to keep warm this winter. Please call if you have bales to donate!

June 2, 2007- Lucky Lady and Laticia were spayed free-of-charge for their owners. Bogey was also neutered.

June 13, 2007- Cairo was spayed and Luey was neutered.

June 20, 2007 - Chelsea and Melissa were spayed!

June 30, 2007 - Daux was spayed, and Felicity was brought into care. We will spay her once her milk dries up. She is the mother of Sandy, Lamby and Rosie.

July 8, 2007 - Cinnamon and her mother Lucy were spayed.

Interested in volunteering? We'd welcome help manning the Farmer's Market booth, building dog houses, and help with our cats (giving them love and cleaning litter boxes at the Red Deer PetSmart).

Our largest Red Deer foster home operation would also appreciate volunteer-help walking, brushing, and petting dogs, cleaning out runs and bedding, and helping to socialize the animals. Mature teenaged animal-lovers welcome too!

Foster homes are the backbone of our operation. We have adult dogs and cats, puppies and kittens who need temporary placement. We are looking for stable, responsible homes able to welcome these animals into their families, and then part with them knowing a loving forever-home has been found.

Drivers needed! Volunteers from all over Alberta often drive out to the two reserves our mandate serves to pick up unwanted animals, transport adults for altering and veterinary care, and to deliver food and straw bales. If you have a truck, SUV or trailer and are willing to donate a day to join us, please contact a volunteer. Paws and Claws Animal Rescue Foundation happily pays for the gas!

Those in the Red Deer and Rocky Mountain House area, if you'd like to help out a few hours every week, are interested in fostering, or if you can help out now and then with driving, please e-mail adoptions@pawsandclawsanimalrescue.ca. Thank you!

Saving just one dog won't change the world... but surely the world will change for that one dog. Unknown

Please visit our website at www.pawsandclawsanimalrescue.ca!

If you still think you are up to the challenge of sharing your life with a dog or cat after you have read the article, please call the number contained in the pet description to speak to a foster parent.

This volunteer can provide you with an adoption form, set up a viewing appointment, and give you information about our fees and procedures.

Please leave a message if we cannot answer your call immediately; we are a group of volunteers, and will call you as soon as we return home from work.

Please feel free to call any of the numbers listed below for general information as well.

We do not have a shelter facility, but the contact information for each dog's volunteer foster parent is in the pup's description.

All of our foster homes are located in Alberta, Canada. We have foster homes in Red Deer, Sylvan Lake, Olds, Eckville, Edmonton, and Calgary.