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Your Dog is Saving Up for the Wiggle Waggle Walk & Run. Have You Noticed the Signs?

Have you ever noticed when you give your dog a treat, before eating it they go straight to another room? How they find the nastiest forgotten tennis ball at the park and bring it home? How they tend to gather all their toys in one pile or go digging in the garbage bin?

Kittens, Puppies — and Canada Post Strikes

Canada Post and its union are down to the wire, and a strike could begin as early as tomorrow.

Heartbreaking Limits of Care: Part 2

A couple months back, I wrote about an investigation into allegations of mistreatment of animals at a rescue in the Ottawa area.

The same rescue has returned to the news, now facing fraud charges.

More Than 800 Reasons to Celebrate

It takes a community to build a more humane and compassionate world for animals. The heart of that community? Our volunteers.

The Need Doesn’t Stop

We haven’t seen this many puppies needing help in years. And they aren’t alone — kitten season is just beginning.

It Could Happen Here

Warning: This article contains disturbing details.

Last week, I felt sick to my stomach reading about a man in Mississauga facing allegations of animal cruelty...

STOP!

And think before you scoop up that baby wild animal!

Unbelievable Power of Pets

Spending time with pets has a lot of benefits for our mood and even physical health. Life is simply better with pets. At the OHS, we asked: how can we bring the joy and therapeutic benefits of pets into our community?

No-Kill: A Pat on the Back for People, Suffering for Animals

In a world that thrives on five-word sound bites, it’s extremely harmful to animals to reduce an extremely complex issue to so few words...

Meeting a Growing and Essential Need

I’m writing this after an all-day marathon to sterilize homeless dogs and cats. In the end, our incredible team at the Ottawa Humane Society managed to spay and neuter 39 pets in need today!

This was no small effort and was a part of World Spay Day. At the OHS we celebrate World Spay Day the same way year after year — with a massive push to help break the cycle of homeless animals. When pets have unwanted litters, it often leads to suffering for kittens and puppies who have nowhere else to turn and no one to care for them.