Animal Welfare Projects Funded by the Animal Welfare Foundation of Canada

Annual Grant
In keeping with its mandate to promote humane education, each year the Animal Welfare Foundation of Canada provides a grant of $5,000 to the animal welfare program at the University of British Columbia to support the P.R.U. Stratton Memorial Lecture, and $5,000 to the animal welfare chair at the University of Guelph to support the Basil Capes Memorial Lecture. These grants allow each university to invite distinguished national and international speakers to make public presentations on topical animal welfare issues.
 

Grants Awarded in 2004

J.J. Whistler Bear Society, Whistler, British Columbia
The J.J. Whistler Bear Society is preparing a Non-lethal Black Bear Management Training Program, including a training manual, student handbook, and field guide for wildlife officers. This program will build on the Society's highly acclaimed program in Whistler, which has resulted in a reduction of bear destruction by 85% in the past four years.
AWFC Grant: $5,000

Critter Care Wildlife Society, Langley, British Columbia
In 2003, the Critter Care Wildlife Society raised, rehabilitated and released 701 animals. The AWFC grant will be used to purchase display materials for its public education programs on wildlife issues and concerns.
AWFC Grant: $1,500

Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue, Vancouver, British Columbia
The Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue raises abandoned kittens and their mothers, and adopts them to safe homes after neutering.
AWFC Grant: $500

Cochrane Humane Society, Cochrane, Alberta
AWFC funding will be used to assist in production of a video for community education on the role the Cochrane Humane Society serves in collaboration with community service providers to support a healthy community, while clearly demonstrating the link between animal welfare and social behaviour.
AWFC Grant: $2,000

Red Deer and District Humane Society, Red Deer Alberta
The Society is expanding its humane education kits for schools and other community agencies to include a wide variety of resources. These materials will be made available in "Borrow Boxes," with information on how to use them with school curricula or other programs.
AWFC Grant: $4,000

Western College of Veterinary Medicine Animal Welfare Club, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
AWFC funding will be used to increase the awareness among veterinary students of the importance of animal welfare. The WCVM Animal Welfare Club plans to invite special guest speakers, distribute newsletters and other literature, and assist in starting a foster program for pets of abused women entering shelters.
AWFC Grant: $2,000

Saskatchewan SPCA, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
The Saskatchewan SPCA is producing a video focusing on the role and function of the society in improving animal welfare in the province of Saskatchewan. The video will highlight the Saskatchewan SPCA's investigative services program, and create awareness of animal welfare issues and the interrelationship between the abuse of animals and humans.
AWFC Grant: $5,000

Northern Ontario Animal Welfare Society, Timmins, Ontario
The AWFC grant will be used to assist the Northern Ontario Animal Welfare Society in its feral cat trap/neuter/release program.
AWFC Grant: $1,000

Ontario Veterinary College Animal Welfare Club, Guelph, Ontario
The Ontario Veterinary College Animal Welfare Club will use its AWFC grant to develop permanent equipment and printed materials to be used throughout each year to promote the efforts of the Club, and to encourage new membership and
participation in the Club by student veterinarians.
AWFC Grant: $1,500

Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Centre, University of PEI, Charlottetown, PEI
The Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Centre is undertaking a survey of Canadian veterinarian's use of analgesics (painkillers) in cattle, pigs and horses. There is currently no data describing the extent of use of analgesics in large domestic species and reasons for non-use. The project will provide the data, and will have direct application in Canadian veterinary education and continuing professional development, and can be expected to contribute to better pain management in farm animals and horses across Canada.
AWFC Grant: $5,600

Cobequid Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre, Brookfield, Nova Scotia
The Cobequid Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre has provided medical care, surgical care, and rehabilitation for over 500 injured, sick and orphaned wild animals since 2001. The AWFC grant will be used to purchase orthopedic surgical instruments.
AWFC Grant: $3,900