Animal Shelter Operations
The majority of humane societies or Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals provide some facilities for the care of unwanted, stray or abandoned animals. In recent decades this has come to mean the care of small companion animals, primarily dogs and cats, but other animals are accepted, particularly smaller species such as hamsters, guinea pigs, rabbits, birds, etc. An increasing number of wildlife species are received and cared for, including raccoons, skunks, squirrels, and some reptiles.
The animal shelters provide a very important service to local communities. Without them many animals would be abandoned in distress and would be allowed to starve. Many more would be killed, the vast majority by an inhumane method such as drowning or gassing (using motor vehicle exhaust) or by some of the more inhumane poisons such as strychnine. All of these methods were commonly used to kill unwanted pet animals before shelters began to provide a humane euthanasia service.
The Animal Welfare Foundation of Canada has consistently recognized the importance to the local community of an animal shelter and has, therefore, generously supported local humane societies or S.P.C.A.'s by providing grants or expert advice to assist with the design, construction, equipping and operation of animal shelters in the following communities:
- Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Charlottetown, Prince
Edward Island
- Fredericton, New
Brunswick
- Yellowknife, Northwest
Territories
- Whitehorse, Yukon
- St. John's, Newfoundland
- Labrador City, Newfoundland
- Cape Breton, Nova
Scotia
- Cornerbrook, Newfoundland
- South Shore, Quebec
- Fort Smith, Northwest
Territories
- Calgary, Alberta
(Study of Euthanasia)
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