IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Stouffville, ON (Sept. 3, 2025) – With children heading again to highschool and the home slightly quieter, empty nesters now have a singular alternative to open their hearts and houses to animals in want. The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society is urgently in search of foster volunteers to offer non permanent, loving look after animals who want additional help earlier than they’re prepared for adoption.
The foster program helps animals who’re too younger, sick, injured, under-socialized, or pressured to thrive in an animal centre atmosphere. The Ontario SPCA is presently on the lookout for foster volunteers who can:
- Present a short lived house for canine and cats needing slightly additional assist studying new behaviours
- Take care of animals with medical wants, comparable to these taking remedy or recovering from surgical procedure
- Help pregnant canine and assist care for his or her puppies after delivery
- Present bottle feeding and round the clock care
- And don’t have any different cats or canine already within the house
“Fostering not solely offers an animal in want a loving house, it additionally brings pleasure, companionship, and objective to the foster household,” says Kim Dooley, Provincial Supervisor, Volunteer Improvement, Ontario SPCA and Humane Society. “It’s a significant solution to fill an empty home – and coronary heart – whereas making a life-changing distinction.”
To use to turn into a foster volunteer and alter an animal’s life, go to ontariospca.ca/foster
As a registered charity that doesn’t obtain annual authorities funding, the Ontario SPCA will depend on the generosity of volunteers and donors. If you happen to’re not able to foster, please think about making a donation to assist present care and shelter to animals in want by visiting ontariospca.ca/donate
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Ontario SPCA and Humane Society
905-898-7122 x 375
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 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 does so by means of quite a lot of neighborhood help providers, comparable to sheltering and adoptions, together with emergency sheltering, feral cat administration applications, animal transfers, meals distribution, humane schooling, animal advocacy, and spay/neuter providers.
The Ontario SPCA doesn’t obtain annual authorities funding and depends on donations to offer 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 standard 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 look after the sources 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.
