The GRACE Project - Animal Rescue

10/21/2026

10/21/2026

Valhalla Rescue is headed to Thunder Beach Rally in Panama City Beach, October 21st through the 25th. Come by our table and meet Astrid, our deaf girl who loves making new friends. We've got coaster sets for sale, free little knickknacks to grab when you stop by, and shirts with a purpose. Dogs for Dolly, $20 with $10 going to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. Pitties for Ti***es, $20 with $10 supporting the National Breast Cancer Foundation. And our new Viking Longship shirts, $20 with all proceeds straight to the rescue. Come hang out, give Astrid some love, and support the dogs.

10/20/2026

Dutch researchers ran a beautifully simple experiment. They took nineteen newly arrived shelter cats and gave half of them a cardboard box to hide in. Then they scored everyone's stress for two weeks.

The box cats settled by day three. The cats without boxes took until day fourteen. Eleven days of extra fear, erased by cardboard. A follow-up study found the same thing: hiding boxes got cats to a calm steady state a full week earlier.

Here is the honest footnote the scientists add. Boxes lower stress. They do not get cats adopted faster. But a calmer cat is a healthier cat, and a healthier cat shows better.

Shelters always need clean cardboard boxes and the hands to cut doorways in them. Ask yours.

- Pawring Cats 🐾

10/19/2026

Faith Festival:

10/15/2026

Our Asta is learning TRICKS and hoping he will get a TREAT of a family of his own. This 45 lb. JOYFUL boy is under a year old and in search of his forever home. PLEASE SHARE to help find this sweet boys forever home!
🐾 crate trained
🐾 loves dogs & cats
🐾 potty trained