It was the only Mickey Mouse cartoon to win an Academy Award.
This Oscar-winning short was dedicated to a non-profit organization known as the "Tailwagger Foundation".
This short was included in both the Oliver & Company (1988) 20th Anniversary Edition DVD and The Fox and the Hound (1981) 25th Anniversary Edition DVD.
"Lend a Paw" from 1941 won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Subject/Cartoon of 1941. As of it's release it is the only Mickey Mouse Cartoon, as well as Cartoon featuring Mickey Mouse to have won that Award.
"Lend a Paw" from 1941 is the Angel Pluto's second appearance. His first appearance is the Original Mickey Mouse Cartoon "Mickey's Pal Pluto (1933)" from 1933, to which "Lend a Paw" is a remake of. Here in "Lend a Paw", in his first color appearance, he is also given a makeover; he is now given a white robe and a bright golden halo on top of his head. This is also his final appearance in a Mickey Mouse and Disney Cartoon.