IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Stouffville, ON (Oct. 10, 2024) – With winter climate closing in, 36 Northern cats from Kenora made the greater than 1,700-kilometre journey to seek out loving houses by way of the Ontario SPCA and Humane Society’s adoption program.
The cats and kittens got here from Kenora Cat Shelter and will probably be positioned up for adoption at Ontario SPCA animal centres in Midland, Muskoka and York Area. Cats adopted from the Ontario SPCA are spayed or neutered, vaccinated, microchipped and so they go dwelling with meals from Royal Canin to assist them transition into their new dwelling.
To assist much more animals, the Ontario SPCA delivered 750 lbs. of cat meals on this journey, which was generously donated by Mars Canada and can present 3,000 meals to animals within the North.
An absence of entry to primary animal wellness providers, corresponding to veterinarians and spay/neuter providers, has contributed to a rise in animal populations throughout Northern Canada. The Ontario SPCA and its companions work alongside communities to ship much-needed assets, corresponding to meals and cellular wellness providers, and to handle animal populations by way of spay/neuter and re-homing initiatives.
“There are extra adoptable animals within the North than there are houses, which is why we’re working collectively to convey these animals to areas of the province the place there are households ready to undertake,” says Arista Wogenstahl, Regional Supervisor, Northern Outreach Companies, Ontario SPCA and Humane Society. “These re-homing initiatives assist guarantee our companions within the North have the capability to assist animals in want through the chilly winter months forward.”
“The Kenora Cat Shelter’s potential to proceed to help the growing quantity of stray, deserted and homeless cats inside our surrounding space depends closely on our partnership with different animal rescues, together with the Ontario SPCA,” says Lisa Lyle, board member with the Kenora Cat Shelter. “Transferring a few of our many adoptable cats to areas in Southern Ontario with fewer stray cats, and a larger inhabitants of adopters, permits for extra room in our shelter to proceed taking within the rising variety of cats in our space that want our assist.”
Taken with adopting? Go to the Ontario SPCA’s adoption web page at ontariospca.ca/undertake to fulfill animals obtainable for adoption.
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The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society
The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society is a registered charity that has been altering the lives of animals for over 150 years. The Society offers care, consolation and compassion to animals in want in communities throughout Ontario. It values all animals and advocates to deal with them with respect and kindness. The Society strives to maintain pets and households collectively and accomplish that by way of quite a lot of neighborhood help providers, corresponding to sheltering and adoptions, together with emergency sheltering, feral cat administration applications, animal transfers, meals distribution, humane training, animal advocacy, and spay/neuter providers.
The Ontario SPCA doesn’t obtain annual authorities funding and depends on donations to supply applications and providers to assist animals in want. To be taught extra, or to donate, go to ontariospca.ca. Charitable Enterprise # 88969-1044-RR0002.
The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society Provincial Workplace sits on the normal territory of the Wendat, the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Mississaugas of Scugog, Hiawatha and Alderville First Nations and the Métis Nation. This territory was the topic of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an settlement between the Iroquois Confederacy and the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and take care of the assets across the Nice Lakes. The treaties that had been signed for this specific parcel of land are collectively known as the Williams Treaties of 1923.
