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Animal Welfare Service – PAWS Enforcement agency

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 […]

2025-07-132025-07-13AWS, General, Legislation

AWS Inspectors Refuse To ID Themselves When Asked

Let us Ontarian’s not forget, the government works for us and is paid for BY us. With that is mind, I think […]

2025-07-122025-07-12AWS

Hot Off The Press…….

Hi everyone, The Pointer, an independent newspaper in Ontario has just published a great piece and I wanted to share it with […]

2025-07-102025-07-10AWS, Justice/Enforcement

Why the Inconsistencies in Charging?

ANIMAL CRUELTY CASES – WHY THE INCONSISTENCY IN POLICE RESPONSE? Just this past weekend (July 5, 2025) a video tape was released […]

2025-07-042025-07-04AWS, Puppy Mills

Another House of Horrors

Stoney Creek, Ontario – McNeilly Avenue – Backyard Breeder – AWS Knew and DID NOTHING!!! Please join us and demand a change […]

2025-06-262025-06-26AWS, Horses

STEPHANIE REDLICK CHARGED

June 5, 2025 ACCUSED HORSE ABUSER STEPHANIE REDLICK HAS BEEN CHARGED FOLLOWING MASSIVE PUBLIC OUTCRY The battle has been long and incredibly […]

2025-06-222025-06-22AWS, Justice/Enforcement

Neil Stratford – Completely Undercharged

HAMILTON – NEIL STRATFORD GETS SUSPENDED SENTENCE The video shows clearly without one doubt what Neil Stratford did to Merlin on that […]

2025-06-062025-06-07AWS, Horses, Legislation

Ontario Animal Welfare Services Failure to Act Leaves 20 Horses to Suffer – 3 are Now Dead

FEB 2025: After multiple calls into the PAWS Hotline regarding starving horses with significant injuries, it takes Animal Welfare Services (AWS) 8 […]

2025-05-142025-05-21AWS, Horses

Zero Accountability

Ontario Animal Welfare Services (AWS) provides an online complaint tool so members of the public are able to make a formal complaint […]

2025-05-092025-05-21AWS, Horses

AWS Refuses to Charge Horse Abuser

Despite 16 horses being in horrific condition and them knowing that 5 horses were in immediate distress, Ontario Animal Welfare Services (AWS) […]

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