National Giving Month reminds us of the amazing things we can accomplish together. Thanks to compassionate community members like YOU, C.A.R.E.4Paws can be there when pets and their people need us the most.

Your support fuels every part of our mission—from expanding access to affordable care to stepping in when pet families face crisis.

Here are three meaningful ways to ensure Central Coast pets stay healthy, safe and homebound:

• Donate pet food and supplies at our annual Howliday Donation Drive-Thru on Saturday, December 6.
• Double your impact with our $25,000 Albus Fund matching gift challenge to help pets receive life-saving veterinary care.
• Support our Pet Refuge, an anonymous emergency boarding facility for pets whose families are navigating difficult life events. 

Let’s brighten the howlidays for pets and the people who love them!

We invite you to read our December 2025 e-newsletter!

We invite you to gather your friends and join C.A.R.E.4Paws at the Gatehouse at Bien Nacido for our Pours & Paws friendraiser! It’s a perfect opportunity to enjoy world-class wines, light hors d’oeuvres, and live music by Jon Millsap while learning about the meaningful change we’re creating for local pet families.

All proceeds from the event support our critical community programs, including the launch of our Pet Refuge, which provides a life-saving safety net for pets of domestic violence survivors. Best of all, Bien Nacido is donating 10% of all weekend sales to our cause! Check out the full newsletter below for event details and to learn how your support helps keep pets healthy, safe, and with the people who love them.

We invite you to read our October 2025 e-newsletter!

Dear friends,

C.A.R.E.4Paws just turned 16 years old and the numbers reflect just how much we can accomplish when we all work together!

The best part? We have so much more to celebrate…

• We have launched a Capital Campaign for a Pet Refuge, which will support pet families experiencing critical, temporary life transitions.
• Our clinic team cares for 1,500 pets every month in our mobile units.
• As many as 78 cats and dogs were altered during our August 17 Spayathon in collaboration with Santa Barbara County Animal Services.
• Matching grant funds are still available —donations toward spay/neuter services are doubled up to $25,000!
• We are expanding our support for unhoused pet families and planning for additional Pet Resource Centers to provide greater access to pet food.

Thank you for helping us grow, achieve and dream big for pets and their families. Together, we’re building a stronger, more compassionate community for all.

We invite you to read our September 2025 e-newsletter!

Our team is on a roll this summer! 🐾

We have so many updates to share from our Mobile Community Medicine & Spay/Neuter Outreach program, from the hiring of a new lead veterinarian and our upcoming Spayathons, to happy tails and great partnerships that increase access to care. This includes a pawsome, matching gift challenge for feline spays/neuters through our friends at ResQcats.

Our clinic team is providing affordable services to more than 1,300 pets per month! And we keep expanding to new locations on the Central Coast.

YOU keep us rolling. Thanks for making such a big impact!

We invite you to read our July 2025 e-newsletter!

Hello team C.A.R.E.4Paws! 🐾

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the wonderful support for our Happy Tails Celebration & Fundraiser on May 4.

We have exciting announcements: In June, we provide FREE microchips at all Pet Wellness Clinics alongside three key partners. On June 8, we start our quarterly wellness clinics inside the Santa Maria riverbed with Street Dog Coalition and SB County Animal Services to assist the growing number of unhoused pet families moving there. In August, we will host another big spayathon event in Santa Maria.

Plus, we’re launching a fundraising campaign for a brand-new pet refuge that will house dogs and cats whose families are going through a critical, temporary life transition, including escape from domestic violence.

We are so grateful for all that you do to support C.A.R.E.4Paws. As you see from “happy tails” (testimonials) from pet families we help, your contributions make an impact, keeping animals healthy and with the people who love them.

We invite you to read our June 2025 e-newsletter!

We are so excited about our Happy Tails Celebration & Fundraiser at Santa Barbara’s Cabrillo Pavilion this Sunday, May 4.

While we are sold out of in-person tickets, you can still participate in our online silent auction. Bidding is open until 10pm on May 4, with 60+ great packages to choose from! Plus, you can preview our live auction to get excited for Sunday—or to inspire you to attend next year’s event.

Have fun bidding and know that the funds raised go to support pet families in need, keeping animals healthy and with their people. That is truly priceless! We can’t thank our kind and generous auction donors enough for making all of this possible.

We invite you to read our May 2025 e-newsletter!

Hello!

We hope all is well with you and your four-legged family members. 

Right now, we need your help to get four of our adoptable dogs into loving forever homes or long-term fosters. Our super cute puppies, Jasper and Smokey, are staying at Creekside Pet Boarding in Arroyo Grande. Our beautiful Greek sisters, Athena and Aphrodite, are boarded at Lucky Dog in Nipomo. 

Our boarding partners are fantastic, but it’s time for these amazing pups to land in a home! ❤️

We invite you to read our April 2025 e-newsletter!

We are excited to offer tickets and sponsorships for our Happy Tails Celebration & Fundraiser on Sunday, May 4, at Santa Barbara’s Cabrillo Pavilion, 4pm to 7pm. Enjoy wine, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres on the oceanfront terrace, a delicious dinner by Whiskey ‘N Rye, and curated live and silent auctions.

Happy Tails celebrates the pawsitive outcomes from our community work and heartfelt stories from the families we assist. Funds raised support programs that reduce pet overpopulation, prevent animal suffering and improve pet family welfare on the Central Coast.

We hope you’ll join us as a Happy Tails sponsor to support our critical services in 2025 and beyond. We cannot do our work without you!

Guest tickets are $150. Reserve yours today!

We invite you to read our March 2025 e-newsletter!

It’s hard to believe it’s already February! This year has been a tumultuous one so far, especially with the devastating LA fires. On January 10, C.A.R.E.4Paws and four of our awesome partners stepped in to pull 34 dogs and cats from overcrowded LA shelters.

We share details about our rescue journey and the beautiful lives saved below. And we send a huge thanks to everyone who has helped with donations, foster care and boarding for our LA rescue pups. We could not be more grateful!

Speaking of happy tails….Tickets and sponsorship opportunities are available for our annual Happy Tails Celebration & Fundraiser at Cabrillo Pavilion on May 4.

We invite you to read our February 2025 e-newsletter!

We are so grateful for our donors and volunteers, who are incredibly generous with their time and resources. 

Every year brings new C.A.R.E.4Paws records. In 2024 alone, we’ve delivered services to close to 20,000 pets in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties—triple the number served just a few years ago. 

We know the requests for help will not decrease in 2025, and we ask for our community’s help to meet the need.

We invite you to read our New Year’s Eve e-newsletter!