Kathy Ellis is the face of Hands to Paws. Our organization makes a difference because she makes a difference. Kathy has many accomplishments to her credit in the field of education, including a doctorate of education, 20 years of classroom teaching special needs learners, and 15 more years of teaching teachers in special education. Currently, she teaches visually disabled children.
As President of Hands to Paws, her passion is rehabilitating dogs with social disabilities. Although she is a certified dog trainer, her dog whispering abilities truly come less from a special diploma and more from how special she is within. However you arrived at our site, you are in the right place if you care about canines! |
GREAT NEWS! Hands to Paws has won a grant from the 2019 Augusta National Golf Club Employee Giving Program. We are so grateful to Augusta National for sponsoring this program, and so grateful to the wonderful employees who voted for us. You folks have helped us to help so many more rescue dogs find their forever homes. We simply cannot thank you enough!
MORE GREAT NEWS! Hands to Paws also won Cyber City's First Place Service Award. Thank you to everyone who voted for us. You guys are the best!!!
EVEN MORE GREAT NEWS!! I would like to thank everyone who donated items for our Hands to Paws yardsale. I would also like to thank Kevin, Linda, and Pat for working the yardsale with me. And finally, thank you to all you wonderful patrons who came to visit with us and make purchases. We had a wonderful time. Our yardsale was a big success! We plan to do this again so keep checking in with our website! Hands to Paws will be selling their fund-raising booklet at all dog events. The title of the booklet is "101 Life Hacks for Dogs and the People Who Love Them." 100% of funds raised from the sale of our booklet goes toward pet rescue. You can also purchase the booklet
($10.00) at Graced Kennels. 
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We need collars! Every dog that comes to our rescue and gets adopted out deserves their own brand new collar, and it's time for us to stock up on collars. We need about 150 collars. Canis Gear has very good quality martingale collars (they make it much harder for a dog to back out of a collar and get loose) for only about $3 per collar, sold in 10 packs. We are looking for the Martingale collars in Red, Blue, Purple, Black or Green. We have the greatest need for size Small and Medium, but could also use some large ones.https://canisgear.com/collections/martingale-medium. USE CODE 2020 AT CHECKOUT FOR FREE SHIPPING. Our Shipping Address is: 1727 Forest Creek Rd Augusta GA Thanks so much for your support!
Graced Kennel Boarding facility houses rescue dogs for Hands to Paws and Brass Knuckle Pin Ups Rescues. We would like to help them out with expenses we impose on them by doing a donation/collection of items. Items that are most needed at this time that would help them offset costs would be:
Dawn Original liquid detergent-large bottles best/Liquid bleach/Laundry detergent
Donations can be made by dropping off items during business hours: 7AM - 5PM.
Graced Kennels is located at:
1918 Colony Park Rd
Augusta, Ga 30909
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Donating Supplies
Hands 2 Paws is always in need of various supplies.... I know some people like to donate items instead of money as they like to immediately see the results of their donations. If anyone would like like to help us with these items we would greatly appreciate it. We have included vendors that we frequently use and know that have good prices, but if you have other options that is fine.
Items can be shipped or brought directly to Hands to Paws, 1727 Forest Creek Rd, Augusta GA 30909 Also, we are trying to provide our dogs with Kuranda ShelterBeds. These highly durable beds are made specifically for animal welfare and hold up to heavy chewing and digging. They provide a clean, safe, comfortable resting place for our dogs. To donate a bed, please visit https://donate.shelterbeds.org/348295 . Your donated bed will be shipped directly to us. |
Supplies Wish LIst
1. Dog gates
Available from ChristmasTreeShops.com We like to give gates to new adopters of our shy, scared and timid dogs. It serves as a reminder that they have a new dog in there house that might be tempted to dart out the door. 2. Wire crate tray replacements. Sizes needed: 2= 54 x 36 1= 48 x 30 x 32 3 = 28 x 42 1= 27 x 49 1 = 22 x 46 1 = 22 x 35 1= 22 x 24 1= 21 x 35 1= 17 x 23 Available from Chewy.com. 3. Martingale collars- provides extra security when out on adoption events and we like to send with adopters when we have extras. Available from CanisGear.com: Option 1, Option 2, Option 3 |
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OUR PURPOSE AND GOALS:
The purpose of Hands to Paws is to initiate and support programs that extend and elevate standards of compassionate care for companion animals in the CSRA by providing educational programs, direct care and cooperative efforts in increasing access to low-cost spay/neuter, rescue, fostering and adoption of animals in need. We are a Georgia Department of Agriculture licensed rescue with non-profit ( # 81-3544786) status. 100% of our funds go directly to support our work. All Board members are totally volunteer. |
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