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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.

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.

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.

We put your adoption fees to excellent use!

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.

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 and drive out to the reserves!

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 fill in our online adoption application!

Check out information about our fees and procedures.

Please be patient waiting for an email response; we are a group of volunteers who all work full time, and we generally only check our email every few days. We apologize for any inconvenience, but we only release our private home phone numbers to those whose applications have been approved by our volunteer screener. The information on each dog or cat can be found in their profiles.

We do not have a shelter facility, but you can fill our online adoption application! Once you are approved, you will be provided with the contact information for each dog's volunteer foster parent. We do not post our home phone numbers online. Email is adoptions@pawsandclawsanimalrescue.ca.

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