Get Involved
Ways you can become involved in supporting animal care and rescue.
Foster
Temporarily caring for a pet in your home until they find a permanent family, helping shelters by providing space and socialization for the animal.
Adopt
Providing a permanent home and lifelong care for a pet, giving them a forever family.
Providing your time and skills to help care for animals, assist with daily tasks, and support the shelter’s operations.
Volunteer
Supporting our mission by providing funds or supplies that help care for animals until they find permanent homes.
Donate
Why Foster or Adopt?
Fostering or adopting animals from rescues plays a crucial role in addressing the growing problem of overpopulation in shelters. Many shelters are overwhelmed with animals, often leading to overcrowding and limited resources. By fostering or adopting, you not only free up space for another animal in need but also provide much-needed relief for shelter staff. Every pet fostered or adopted is one less animal at risk of being euthanized due to space constraints. This simple act can save lives and improve the overall well-being of animals who might otherwise be overlooked.
Fostering, in particular, offers animals a chance to thrive in a home environment while they wait for their forever family. Shelters, though often well-run, can be stressful for animals, making it harder for them to display their true personalities. Foster homes allow animals to decompress, receive individual attention, and learn behaviors that make them more adoptable. It also gives foster families the opportunity to make a direct impact, offering love and care to an animal who might never have experienced it before.
Adopting from rescues ensures that animals who have been abandoned, mistreated, or overlooked are given a second chance at life. Unlike purchasing from breeders or pet stores, adoption helps break the cycle of irresponsible breeding and supports the ethical treatment of animals. When you adopt, you’re not only changing the life of a single animal but also making a statement about compassion and responsibility in pet ownership. Choosing adoption contributes to a solution rather than perpetuating the problem of overbreeding and abandoned pets.
Canada-Wide Animal Crisis
Throughout the past few years, Canadian shelters have been in a crisis due to the overpopulation of domestic animals and overflow in shelters. Contributing factors to this crisis include a severe lack of pet-friendly housing, Bully breed-specific discrimination, rising vet costs, and a large amount of irresponsible breeding. Animals born into this society are no longer guaranteed the basic necessities needed to live and thrive. Domestic animals are meant to be loved and treated as family and are being discarded or surrendered due to a multitude of situations and the Canadian shelter system is struggling to manage and support the large amount of animals entering the system.
"Animal shelters throughout Canada are struggling to make room for surrendered pets as resources are stretched to a breaking point, according to the federation of humane societies and SPCAs. Lenore Hume, with the Winnipeg Humane Society, told CTVNews.ca that her shelter is overwhelmed with animals in ways her and fellow staff have not seen before.“Right now we have over 120 cats and 60 dogs on the waitlist to be surrendered,” she said. “We simply do not have the space to take them in.”"
