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2025-08-192025-08-19General

Just Don’t Look Away

Standing up and stopping animal cruelty, abuse, abandonment and neglect falls on ALL OF US.  No one gets a pass, permission to […]

2025-08-132025-08-14Animal Research, Legislation

Animal Testing – Doug Ford speaking out of both sides of his mouth!!!!

A whistleblower (God love them!!!) in London, ONT has blown the lid off of a horrible case of animal cruelty at St.Joseph’s […]

2025-08-112025-08-11Did ya know, General

Surrendering a Pet – a last resort!

WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF AN ANIMAL WELFARE CRISIS! RESCUES ARE FULL / SHELTERS ARE FULL / POUNDS ARE FULL! Yesterday, […]

2025-08-102025-08-10AWS

Is Our Criticism of Animal Welfare Services Justified?

Animal Welfare Services (AWS) is the enforcement division under Provincial Animal Welfare Services (PAWS). They are governed by the PAWS Act – […]

2025-08-072025-08-07AWS, Justice/Enforcement

Accused animal abuser a No Show in court for a second time.

Accused animal abuser Carly Young of Niagara Falls once again failed to show up for a court date scheduled for July 22, […]

2025-08-062025-08-06AWS, Legislation

This is not going to get better on its own!

Premier Doug Ford, Solicitor General Michael Kerzner, Minister Mike Harris (MNRF) and AWS Chief Melanie Milczynski are not interested in protecting animals […]

2025-08-052025-08-05AWS, Justice/Enforcement

Why the Charging Inconsistencies?

Criminal Code charge vs Provincial Offence charge vs No charge? The exact same occurrence of animal abuse could be done in 10 […]

2025-08-032025-08-03General

The Real Story Behind the Stephanie Redlick Charges

Accused animal abuser and fraudster Stephanie Redlick – 28 yrs – of North York made her first court appearance July 24th 2025 […]

2025-07-252025-07-30AWS

Email from AWS Chief

This past weekend up in Georgian Bluffs (Wiarton area) there was a dire situation involving 9 dogs being kept in crates for […]

2025-07-212025-07-22General

AWS – Another Dereliction of Duty

AWS Incident #: UCN20580965 GEORGIAN BLUFFS, ONTARIO – July 10 – July 20, 2025 Last week and this past weekend another situation […]

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