Mia’s Mafia is the cats meow!

Mia’s Mafia is a small group of animal lovers working hard to improve the lives of cats and other animals in need. They focus on Trap Neuter Release for cats and medical care for all the animals they can.

TNR is a process where feral cats (those who live their best lives outside, away from humans except their caretaker/feeder) are trapped, spayed or neutered, vaccinated, given an ear tip to identify that they are cared for and altered, and then released back to their home and person that cares about them. During this process, it’s not uncommon to find cats who don’t belong in the feral category. Those are cats who are friendly with people and probably were pets at some point in their life, or kittens who haven’t made up their mind about people just yet. These cats get the same medical care, usually minus the ear tip, and then join a foster home where they begin the search for their perfect match.

"We focus on keeping things positive and supporting each other so that we can be at our best to do the most good for the animals. We strive to collaborate with others and encourage our team to come up with new and better ideas of ways to help and to run with those ideas. "

Mia’s Mafia is one of the rescues that regularly uses the Cat Shack facility at our Stonehenge store so our customers there have probably seen a few of their adoptable cats and kittens! Here’s one of the many precious felines:

Find out more at their website and see all the fun things they have for sale (and will have at Spring Fling!)

Also follow them on Facebook and Instagram!

Vets to Vets improving lives!

Vets to Vets is an organization that helps Veterans get united with a dog and their main goal is improving and saving lives.

By pairing veterans with dogs, they seek to significantly improve a veteran's life by providing companionship and/or help with a mental or physical disability. At the same time, they help save the life of a dog facing euthanasia by adopting the animal from a local animal shelter.

The benefits of companion, therapeutic, and service dogs for veterans suffering from depression, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and other disabling conditions is well known.

"This type of human/animal bond creates a life-long, loving relationship between two souls, provides therapeutic interventions that can improve the veterans mental and physical health, and promotes a healthier more productive community by increasing independence for men and women veterans with disabling medical and physical conditions."

Make sure to come and see them as they will be attending with some Vet's and their pups!

Check out their website here

You can also check out their Facebook and Instagram!

Must Love Mutts!

Love Mutts Rescue is a non-breed-specific dog rescue operating in central North Carolina and south central Virginia. They are a volunteer based group that work hard to rescue dogs that come from all backgrounds.

Once a dog joins the rescue, they provide them with appropriate medical care, and place them in foster homes where they can be loved and nourished while they await their forever home. Their goal is to help all dogs that come into the rescue and find the families that are destined to be theirs.

Love Mutts has held adoption events at several of our locations, including our Stonehenge store most recently. They always have great dogs with the sweetest personalities! Here’s one of them, meet Bo & Molly!

Follow them on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram to keep up to date with their events!