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12 Free Ways to Help Animal Shelters (Online and Off)
No money? You can still help a shelter. Twelve free things that make a difference, with an honest note on which ones move real money and which raise awareness.
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How giving reaches Pink Paw
How money reaches Pink Paw (Rožinė pėdutė), a cat shelter in Kaunas, Lithuania: the free treats Token Tails sends after a win, $1 Moon Rave cats, $5 shelter cats, and how anyone can check every payout on the public payout ledger.
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A Charity Gift for a Cat Lover: Name a Cat at Moon Rave
The best gift for someone who has everything and loves cats: a gift to a cat shelter in their name. How to do it at a local shelter, as a memorial, or on Moon Rave.
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Giving Tuesday 2026: How to Help Animal Shelters
Giving Tuesday 2026 falls on Tuesday 1 December. A giver's guide for animal and cat shelters: what to check first, free and paid ways to help, and how to see your gift arrive.
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How to Tell if an Animal Rescue Is Legit: 8 Checks
Eight quick checks to tell a real animal rescue from a scam before you give money or take an animal home, with the official registers and the red flags regulators warn about.
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Sponsor a Cat Online: How Cat Sponsorship Works
What sponsoring a cat online really means, how two well-known UK schemes work in their own words, the questions to ask before you sign up, and smaller ways to give.
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Games That Help Animals: How They Work, and Which to Trust
Some games really do get food and money to animal shelters. Here is how they pay, real examples, and a short checklist to tell which ones you can trust.
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How to Donate to a Cat Shelter Online (and Check It Arrived)
A practical guide to giving to a cat shelter online: how to check a shelter, which payment method costs least, giving across borders, and getting a receipt you can verify.
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How to Donate USDC to an Animal Shelter, Step by Step
Stablecoins suit small gifts. Here is how to check a shelter's wallet and contract, give USDC to Pink Paw on Arc in a few clicks, and find your gift on-chain.
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How to Verify a Crypto Donation Reached the Charity (Step by Step)
A step-by-step way to check that a crypto donation really reached the charity, with a worked example from a real payout to a cat shelter.
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Moon Rave: $1 Puts a Cat on the Dance Floor and Goes to Pink Paw
$1 = 1 cat. Add a dancing cat to the Moon Rave by card or in USDC, and the full dollar goes to the Pink Paw cat shelter, on a payout anyone can check.
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Shelter Cats in Token Tails: Meet Pink Paw's Cats
Pink Paw's real cats live in the Token Tails Shelter as pixel cards. Here is how to meet them, what a $5 shelter cat card is, and how to help for free.
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Pink Paw: the Kaunas Cat Shelter Behind Token Tails
Who Pink Paw are, where to find them in Kaunas, how their cats show up in our games, and how anyone can check every payout to the shelter's own wallet.
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How Token Tails Gets Money to a Real Cat Shelter
Free cat games, one real shelter, and payouts anyone can check. Here is who pays what, where it goes, and how to verify it.
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