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 2005

British Columbia SPCA, Vancouver, British Columbia
The British Columbia SPCA launched Canada’s first “SPCA Certified” labelling and certification program for farm animal welfare in 2002. Ten farms are currently certified in BC, including egg, broiler and beef operations as meeting the SPCA husbandry standards. Funding provided by the AWFC will allow the BC SPCA to take the next step and develop standards for transport and slaughter of chickens, cattle and pigs. An audit procedure and inspection checklist based on identified Critical Control Points will be developed.
AWFC Grant: $5,000

Cobequid Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre, Brookfield, Nova Scotia
Chronic oil spills, caused by illegal and often anonymous discharge of oily bilge and other waste water from ships, have a devastating impact on seabirds in Eastern Canada. Over 300,000 seabirds perish annually from these spills. The Cobequid Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre will use funding provided by the AWFC to purchase the necessary equipment for oiled bird rehabilitation and release.
AWFC Grant: $7,650

Carleton County Animal Shelter, Richmond Settlement, New Brunswick
The Carleton County Animal Shelter serves an area of over 100 square miles and will use its grant to establish a spay and neuter program for low income families and for humane education programs.
AWFC Grant: $3,000

Winnipeg Humane Society, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Animals with behaviourial problems are often euthanised, even though many problems can be treated by trained experts. The Winnipeg Humane Society is establishing a behaviourial consultation service offering canine and feline veterinary behaviourial consultation and training to pet owners in Winnipeg and surrounding communities. Funding from the AWFC will support training of staff at a clinical behaviourial medicine workshop.
AWFC Grant: $3,700

Save Old Souls Senior K-9 Rescue, Medicine Hat, Alberta
The Save Old Souls Senior K-9 Rescue organization provides care to unwanted, relinquished senior dogs and assists owners with an alternative to euthanasia when they are no longer able to keep their animal companions due to entering long term care facilities, separation/divorce of partners, death in the family, and other causes. Care includes altering, dental care and surgery where necessary, vaccinations, special diets and foster care until a permanent home is found.
AWFC Grant: $2,000

Wildlife Rehabilitation Society of Edmonton, Edmonton, Alberta
The Wildlife Rehabilitation Society of Edmonton has helped over 7,500 wild animals in the last 15 years. AWFC funding will allow one staff person to attend the International Wildlife Rehabilitators Council international conference to expand species knowledge, learn different types of medical treatments and rehabilitation techniques, and exchange ideas regarding wildlife rehabilitation.
AWFC Grant: $1,340

Whistler Animals Galore Society, Whistler, British Columbia
The Whistler Animal Galore Society is working with the Mount Currie Band Council to institute a spay/neuter project in order to address the problems of roaming dog packs, and dog attacks on people, livestock and wildlife. The program will run in conjunction with a dog bite prevention and animal welfare education program for children in Mount Currie.
AWFC Grant: $7,000

Island Wildlife Natural Care Centre, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia
The Island Wildlife Natural Care Centre helps wildlife from throughout British Columbia and is the only year round marine mammal rescue centre in Canada. Funding from AWFC will support the centre’s Wildlife Rehabilitation Internship Program, which trains up to 16 interns each year in rehabilitation of birds, mammals, and marine mammals, including diagnosis, medical treatment, necropsies, rescue and release of wildlife, feeding, and daily care.
AWFC Grant: $7,500

Marmot Recovery Foundation, Vancouver, British Columbia
The Vancouver Island marmot is Canada’s most endangered mammal. Recovery efforts are challenged by predators. The Marmot Recovery Foundation will use AWFC funding for research and field testing of a new non-lethal predator management technique on one of the marmots’ most common predators, cougars; and for contributing to the body of knowledge informing other endangered species recovery efforts on a regional, national and international scale.
AWFC Grant: $5,000

University Animal Welfare Clubs
The AWFC is providing grants of $1,500 to the student animal welfare clubs in each of the four veterinary colleges in Canada ( University of Prince Edward Island, University of Montreal at St-Hyacinthe, University of Guelph, and University of Saskatchewan). The funding will assist the clubs in educational programs, particularly seminars with guest speakers from outside their provinces.