Animal Welfare in Ontario – Looking back at 2025
It has not been a good year. The animal welfare crisis is out of control. Rescues drowning in debt and burnt out are closing their doors at alarming rates. The […]
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Multiple visits by Animal Welfare Services – they continue to do nothing to protect the dogs!
Humane Initiative has been contacted by a number of people who have first hand, eyewitness accounts of the conditions at Nakoma Rescue in Addison, ONT (just north of Brockville). We […]
Read moreDo you think it is OK for dogs to be kept like this?
The Ontario government does! Provincial Animal Welfare Services has visited this rescue in eastern Ontario twice in the last year. They saw these conditions and felt no further action was […]
Read moreAnimals for Research Act Amendments
Ontario is THE ONLY province that mandates dogs and cats to be sold to research labs. Quebec allows it, but Ontario mandates it. Can you imagine your beloved pet has […]
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