After cat Takoda had a huge fall from a 6th floor balcony and completely shattered the bones in his leg, he may very well have been euthanized. Instead we asked for your help to pay for specialist surgery – and so many of you came to his rescue. Today we’re very happy to let you [...]
Staff at Oasis Animal Rescue, on Simcoe St. N., Oshawa, were shocked on Tuesday when two women appeared to carry out their threat of dumping their unwanted cat in a back street alley – deliberately adding to the problem of homeless pets roaming Oshawa streets. “This is a too-common problem,” says Janet Smith, Executive Director [...]
The staff at Oasis are mourning a recent, senseless death. A young dog we had been asked to re-home has died. His owner came to Oasis with a request that we find a home for the big, waggy-tailed guy. A typical doggy teenager, he was getting it all wrong, and his owner, who probably [...]
Earlier this week, Part One of our Highway Of Pain For Farm Animals series highlighted that legislation in Canada governing the transport and slaughter of farm animals was still delayed despite animal right groups lobbying for years. The beef-consuming public and the economy are still at risk yet the Canadian government continues to “look into [...]
Continued from Highway Of Pain For Farm Animals – Part 1 Canadian Law regarding the transportation of animals has not changed for decades. Legislation that closed small community abattoirs and made the longer trips necessary should have included stringent regulations for transportation, but didn’t. There are 650 million animals transported for slaughter yearly in Canada. [...]
In 2004, I wrote a newspaper article about the treatment of sick and diseased farm animals headed for the slaughterhouse. There were two events that brought this issue into focus for me at that time. The first was legislation that closed small abattoirs in Canada and brought all livestock slaughter into large operations and under [...]
The first of our Puppy Mills series coincided with breaking news of a puppy mill uncovered in Clarington, within our own Durham Region. In Part 2 we provided information on the Continental Kennel Club and fake registries. In this final part of our series looking at the dirty business of puppy mills in Canada, we [...]
In Part 1 of our Puppy Mills are a Big, Dirty Business series, we talked about puppy mills in Canada being factory farms with the sole purpose of breeding puppies valued only for the amount of profit they generate. Here we take a look at the Continental Kennel Club registry: What about the Continental Kennel [...]
At Oasis Animal Rescue and Education Center, our role in the Durham region community is to ensure the protection and care of any domestic animal that is abandoned, displaced or homeless. By building awareness of industries that make a detrimental contribution to the lives of domestic pets, we can work towards preventing future problems. Last [...]
The Oasis team was saddened to hear in the news today that a puppy mill has been uncovered in Clarington. As reported by Kristen Calis on durhamregion.com, the operation was uncovered after a tip from the public to the Humane Society of Durham Region. Upon investigation, 31 small breed dogs were found on the property [...]
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