Tag: humane society
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Students sought to foster friendly felines
[wzslider lightbox=”true”] STORY AND PHOTOS BY CHRIS COUTTS The Oakville and Milton Humane Society has the purr-fect solution for students seeking companionship, responsibility or endless cuddling: fostering cats. Brenda Dushko considers students to be ideal foster parents for animals as pets can be great source of companionship without a long-time commitment. “College life is a…
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And they said money can’t buy you happiness…
STORY AND PHOTOS BY CHRIS COUTTS The Oakville and Milton Humane Society is holding a half-price “adopt-a-thon” until the end of January for cats that are more than six months old. The shelter has been so overrun with cats that they’ve had to rent a trailer to house them all after the Humane Society rescued…
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Pet cemetery is snapshot of Oakville’s past
STORY AND PHOTOS BY OSCAR IMMEL Rows of tombstones are scattered across the small slice of property, but this is no ordinary cemetery for burying people. It’s for the family pet. Established in the late 1960s, the Oakville and Milton Humane Society can make the claim of having the first ever pet cemetery in Ontario.…