Growing dog populations an issue in some Ontario remote communities, shelters under pressure
Tammy Dickson, who owns Wunnumin Animal Rescue on her fly-in community located 500 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, Ont., said she regularly visits neighbouring First Nations to help manage loose dogs and has noticed their populations increasing after the pause on vet visits during the pandemic.
“You see dogs everywhere. There’s constant barking,” said Dickson, 41. “Now it’s mating season, so it’s gotten a lot more dangerous.” She said children in the First Nations she works in have been scared they will get chased or bitten by the strays during walks to school.An animal rescue organization in Sudbury, Ont., recently took in half a trailer of dogs that a network of volunteers brought over from remote communities.
“We’re still spinning since the delivery because we were already over capacity. We’ve already taken in so many litters,” said Jill Pessot, who has been operating the organization called Petsave for 23 years.Animal shelters like hers are under immense pressure, she said, particularly since requests for pet adoptions have dropped as more people return to offices or go back to work full time following the height of the pandemic and don’t have the capacity to fully care for their animals.
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