Hill’s Food, Shelter & Love® Canadian Program

• Since 2007, the Hill’s Food, Shelter & Love® program has donated over $8.25 million worth of Science Diet® brand pet food to animal shelters across Canada.
• It has also helped thousands of homeless pets find new homes, and counting.
• The program feeds homeless pets 365 days a year in Canada.
• The program also provides a free bag of Science Diet pet food to the pet parent for each adoption to further ensure a smooth and easy transition for pets to their new home.
• The goal of the Hill’s Food, Shelter & Love® program is simple: to provide dogs and cats with superior nutrition that will make them healthier, happier, and more adoptable as they wait for their forever home.

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Shelters applaud limits on pet store sales

Montreal animal shelters are applauding a Toronto bylaw banning pet stores from selling dogs and cats that come from breeders and asking for the move to be copied here.

The Companion Animal Adoption Centres of Quebec regularly delivers dog to Toronto for adoption, since May of this year approximately 700 have been sent.

"Our pounds and shelters are overflowing, because nobody's adopting - they're buying them from pet stores that buy them from producers who are creating a product that is not needed," Says Johanne Tassé head of CAACQ. "There is a glut in the market. As long as shelter animals are being killed in shelters and pounds, only shelter animals should be sold."

Read the full article in the Montreal Gazette

Also of interest

See what the Canadian Federation of Human Societies says.

Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council of Canada (PIJAC) Statement

The importance of microchips - Lessons learned from Katrina

Significant disaster planning prevented the nearly unimaginable June EF-5 tornado that flattened a 6-mile long and half-mile wide swath in Joplin, Mo., from being worse. The Missouri authorities had been fine-tuning their disaster response for years, and it paid off. What we learned about people being unwilling to leave their pets during Hurricane Katrina about pets was applied: Some emergency shelter space accommodated pets.

Although it’s painful to contemplate what could have been worse in what the National Weather Service calls “the deadliest [tornado] since modern recordkeeping began in 1950,” there was one area lacking in which people could have prevented much heartache: microchips.

About 1,300 pets ended up in the Joplin Humane Society. The trick was reuniting them with their owners – a difficult task given that all but a handful of the pets did not have an ID tag or a microchip. Seen as an unnecessary expense by some people, a tiny microchip and its one-time cost could have saved a lot of worry and grief.

Read the article on The Pet Connection Blog