Eleven Eleven Rescue in Canada gets their Santa Paws visit!

Eleven Eleven Animal Rescue in Canada received their Santa Paws Drive presents on Christmas Eve -- just in time for Christmas! (Santa had perfect timing!)

They posted a great blog post full of pictures and videos of the kitties and doggies enjoying their new toys. Check it out here!

Here are just a few of the happy pictures:


See more of pictures and videos of Eleven Eleven's babies enjoying their Santa Paws Drive gifts on their blog post!

Santa Paws visits the Animal Welfare League in Australia!

The doggies and kitties at Animal Welfare League of Queensland in Australia got their Santa Paws Drive gift package just in time for Christmas!

Nothing makes us happier than seeing all the happiness and Christmas joy we were able to send these beautiful animals' way. Look at all the cute pictures! (You can click on it to biggify.)

Thanks to @PepiSmartDog for nominating such a great organization, and thanks to everyone who donated for making this great drive possible!

Santa Paws Visits Cats Exclusive!

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Santa Paws (a.k.a. @YourDailyCute) visited Cats Exclusive in Florida today to drop off their package of toys and treats everyone donated! It was so, so great getting to give all the kitties their Christmas presents -- they were so happy!

One great story to go with this: They said they had gone online and tried to buy their cats some Christmas mice, but they were sold out everywhere. Well... guess what there was a ton of in their Santa Paws package? Christmas mice! Yay! :)

Check out some great pictures and videos of the kitties and their new toys!

This is me handing out some stinky NIP fishes!


Black Jack LOVED his! He just chewed and licked and loved it until it was all soggy. Then he rested his head on it.


Otis wants the Christmas mousie! See a video of him playing with it below!




A whole bunch of kitties getting toys!

Check out this kitty going CRAZY with his catnip fishy!




I haz a Christmas mouse.


I'm hogging all the toys!


The Cats Exclusive "mommies" and me... and some kitties, of course.


This is Richard. He is one of the most amazing, cat-loving, heart-filled people I've ever met.

More kitties and toys...

Hope you enjoyed looking at these pictures as much as I enjoyed being Santa Paws and bringing all the kitties their presents! Look for more pictures of the other shelters getting their deliveries soon!

P.S. Special thanks to the official Santa Paws Drive photographer... my dad!

The Making of a Santa Paws Drive Gift Package!

We thought it would be fun to share some pictures of how much GREAT stuff went into the gift packages we sent to the shelter dogs and cats. It was so much!

This is the making of a Santa Paws Drive package that we sent to one of the shelters with both dogs and cats...

Layer 1: Tons of dog treats!

Layer 2: Oodles of dog toys!

Layer 3: Bunches of cat treats!

Layer 4: Piles of cat toys!

It's like a lasagna of goodies for all the animals! Thank you all again for all your donations! We can't wait to hear from the shelters after they get their Christmas presents!

SuppliesJust4Pets.com is Matching Dog Toy Donations!

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Great news, everyone! SuppliesJust4Pets.com (one of Santa Paws Drive team members and @BabyPatches momma!) is matching single dog toy donations now through the midnight Monday!

This can be a huge boost in our donations! For every single dog toy you donate to Santa Paws Drive, she'll match it -- which means dog toy donations are basically 2-4-1 right now!

As a Santa Paws Drive team member, she's super dedicated to make sure that our drive to bring holiday cheer to shelter animals is super successful, and this is a super generous offer she's made.

To see the dog toys that qualify for her matching donations, see the dog toy items in the Santa Paws Gift shop. There is NO SHIPPING on any of these items!

You can choose any of the single dog toys -- Bad Cuz Tough Toy, HOWLiday Bungee Reindeer and the Naughty & Nice Tug -- (bundles are not up for matching) and she'll automatically donate one for every one you donate! You won't see it in your cart, but she will add it to our list behind the scenes.

Let's help give as many gifts as we can to our furry friends in shelters this season! Please spread the word about this great and generous matching donations she's doing!

P.S. Why just dog toys, you ask? Well, the doggies need a little extra help here! Looks like the cats are going to get more toys so far, and we want to make sure that we have plenty of doggie gifts to give, too!

CONTEST: What Are YOU Thankful For? (Win Santa prizes and TURKEY treats!)

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Thanksgiving is a time for being thankful for what we have: for our wonderful family, our fabulous pets, our amazing friends... and TURKEY!

Santa Paws Drive is thankful for everyone's support so far. Together we're getting closer to our goal of money, toys and treats to help bring holiday cheer to the less fortunate shelter animals this Christmas.

For our latest Santa Paws Drive event, we want to know what you're thankful for! From all the answers, Santa Paws' own Baby Patches is going to pick some random winners.

How to Enter

1. Leave a comment about what your thankful for to be automatically entered!
2. Tweet this short message (if you don't have Twitter, you get a pass... but this helps us spread the word!):
CONTEST: @SantaPawsDrive asks what are YOU thankful for? http://bit.ly/2fk8tW Comment to WIN!

Prizes are super fabulous (and you could even be Santa Paws yourself)! Here they are:

Grand Prize: Super plush CHRISTMAS BEAR from Harrod's in London!
Runner Up #1: Deluxe, festive pet SANTA SUIT (coat and all!)
Runner Up #2: Ho ho holiday pet SANTA HAT!
10 random prizes: 5 bags of kitty TURKEY treats and 5 bags doggie TURKEY treats! (Perfect for Thanksgiving!)

Leave a comment and spread the word!

Contest end midnight EST, Thanksgiving Thursday (the 26th) at midnight EST and we'll announce the winners on Friday.

How Santa Paws Drive Came to Be...

It's amazing what a little idea can turn in to if you find the right people to help...

A few months ago, a had an idea to have a "virtual toy drive" for shelter animals around the holidays. Thinking about the Marines' Toys 4 Tots and the Salvation Army's Angel Tree programs, I thought it would be so great to do something similar, but for animals.

I know my pets at home get gifts and treats for Christmas -- wrapped and under the tree, of course! -- but my heart went out to the shelter animals who aren't lucky enough to have forever homes and families to love them and shower them with gifts and attention during the holidays.

And the more I thought about it, the more excited I got! There was just one (or a bagillion) little problem... I had no idea how to do it, or where to even start.

Enter the amazing pet-loving community on Twitter!

Through tweeting for my blog as @YourDailyCute (my blog is YourDailyCute.com), I've meet some truly amazing people all over the world, with incredible unique skills, knowledge and niches -- so I reached out to two Twitter friends to help make Santa Paws Drive a reality!

On Twitter, @frugaldougal is the mastermind behind all hugely successful "pawpawty" fundraisers... so I knew he and his mom, Lynn, would be a GREAT one to have on the Santa Paws Drive team.

And @BabyPatches is the Chief Kit for SuppliesJust4Pets.com online store... which would be a GREAT way to facilitate the toy donations, so she and her mom, Salina, joined up on the team, too!

Together, the three of us from all around the world -- @YourDailyCute from Florida, @frugaldougal in the UK, and @BabyPatches from California -- to make the Santa Paws Drive project a dream come true!


I've said it before and I'll say it a million more times before all this is over probably, but it is absolutely incredible how many fantastic people I've met through Twitter and the anipal community. (Anipals are pets who "tweet" on Twitter; they are the nicest bunch you could ever hope to meet.)

Together we decided to reach out to 6 non-profit, no-kill shelters worldwide to benefit from Santa Paws Drive. We each chose a local rescue, and then the other three were recommended from other friends on Twitter.

Lynn created the SantaPawsDrive.com site, Salina chose the special toys for everyone to donate and built a custom-dedicated store for Santa Paws Drive on her shop site and Dorian coordinated with both of them and a couple other friends, plus launched and promoted Santa Paws Drive on Twitter (@SantaPawsDrive and Facebook (be a fan!)!

And so, long story short, we worked together for many, many hours over email, chat an Twitter to get all the little details together.

We sincerely hope our Santa Paws Drive can be a HUGE success and we can bring some much-needed holiday cheer to our furry friends who aren't lucky enough to have forever homes during the holidays.

To donate a toy or money and for more information, please visit the Santa Paws Drive official site at www. SantaPawsDrive.com!

Thank you in advance for helping us put some smiles on some lucky animals cute little faces this holiday season!