Candice Gordon is a well-known face on the Ontario SPCA Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry Animal Centre, having joined the staff two years in the past as a Registered Veterinary Technician. Following the retirement of former centre supervisor, Carol Hyperlink, after 27 years with the Ontario SPCA and Humane Society, we’re excited to announce that Candice has stepped up into the function!
A brand new begin to assist extra animals
Candice, who lives domestically on a pastime farm together with her husband, two teenage daughters and 4 horses, started her profession in non-public veterinary observe. Her need to assist much more animals in want led her to shelter medication on the Ontario SPCA.
“I’m honoured to have the ability to assist these animals get the second likelihood they deserve, which is just attainable due to beneficiant donors, our hard-working staff, superb volunteers, and households who undertake and provides these animals loving properties,” she says.
Final 12 months, the Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry Animal Centre adopted 448 animals, and Candice hopes to put much more into loving properties this 12 months.
“However the Ontario SPCA is a lot extra than simply an adoption group,” Candice says.
Supporting animals in the neighborhood
Along with offering shelter and care to animals by means of the Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry Animal Centre, the Ontario SPCA additionally helps maintain animals with the households who love them by means of its neighborhood help providers.
Final 12 months, by means of the Ontario SPCA’s neighborhood outreach providers staff, near 40,000 lbs of meals was distributed to meals banks and neighborhood companions within the Cornwall space. That interprets into an unimaginable 102,000 meals to maintain furry bellies full!
In response to a spike in Parvo instances in 2017, the Ontario SPCA’s neighborhood outreach staff started holding annual Parvo vaccine clinics. By 2019, 450 canine had been vaccinated towards the life-threatening sickness, and solely three instances of the Parvo virus had been reported in the neighborhood that 12 months. These vaccination efforts proceed, with 78 canine vaccinated ultimately 12 months’s clinic.
To assist cut back animal overpopulation in the neighborhood, the Ontario SPCA has additionally been internet hosting spay/neuter occasions in Cornwall. Since 2020, the Ontario SPCA has carried out 651 spay/neuter surgical procedures in the neighborhood, stopping an estimated 30,000 probably undesirable animals.
You possibly can assist change a life
To study extra in regards to the Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry Animal Centre, and to view animals out there for adoption, go to ontariospca.ca/sdg Comply with the centre on Fb and Instagram for information, updates, animals out there for adoption, and care suggestions.
For extra data on the Ontario SPCA’s neighborhood help providers, go to ontariospca.ca/communitysupport
