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Animal Welfare Service – PAWS Enforcement agency

11 September 202511 September 2025

Animals in Distress – AWS Fails to Act – AGAIN!

OH MY GOSH ONTARIO – WE ARE BETTER THAN THIS Why do the animals of this province have to be let down time and time again by the very taxpayer […]

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6 September 20256 September 2025

Ontario’s Shameful Animal Welfare Policies – Are they reflecting YOUR values???

On October 20, 2025 – after 137 DAYS ON VACATION our provincially elected officials shuffle back into Queen’s Park to do the people’s business. Yes our business! They work for […]

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1 September 20251 September 2025

Does this make you mad ENOUGH to act?

WELLESLEY,ONTARIO This puppy mill is known to and actually licensed by the municipality. Mayor Joe Nowak knows all about puppy mills in his little kingdom. This particular puppy mill is […]

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25 August 202525 August 2025

Six Years Ago Doug Ford made a Promise….We are still waiting!

In 2019, the Ontario government knew that the responsibility of overseeing animal welfare would be changing hands from the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA) to […]

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20 August 202520 August 2025

Will Justice Truly be Served?

4 LUCKY PAWS RESCUE – THE TRIAL OF KATELYN LIDKEA PETERBOROUGH – TODAY, AUG 20 In under 5 hrs, Katelyn Lidkea will hear her sentence! I have been through this […]

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10 August 202510 August 2025

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 – provincial legislation created and brought in January 2020 […]

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7 August 20257 August 2025

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. The horrific death of Dakota, a young […]

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6 August 20256 August 2025

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 – they just are not. They are more […]

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5 August 20255 August 2025

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 different municipalities throughout Ontario and you will not […]

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25 July 202530 July 2025

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 many many hours that needed immediate attention. Some […]

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13 July 202513 July 2025

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 it is more than fair for the taxpayers […]

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12 July 202512 July 2025

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 you. PLEASE SEE LINK BELOW. The Pointer does […]

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10 July 202510 July 2025

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 on social media showing a man in Belleville, […]

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4 July 20254 July 2025

Another House of Horrors

Stoney Creek, Ontario – McNeilly Avenue – Backyard Breeder – AWS Knew and DID NOTHING!!! Please join us and demand a change to this broken animal welfare system. Saturday, July […]

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26 June 202526 June 2025

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 frustrating for the people who kept witnessing what […]

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22 June 202522 June 2025

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 hot summer day in 2023. Multiple calls into […]

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6 June 20257 June 2025

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 days to respond. The horses were owned by […]

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14 May 202521 May 2025

Zero Accountability

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

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9 May 202521 May 2025

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) did not act to get the horses the […]

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30 April 202521 May 2025

AWS Refuses to Press Charges for Deaths

WHAT ABOUT CAUSING DEATH ???? Hamilton – Jessica Kippen On Thursday, June 12th Jessica Kippen is in Hamilton court for a 2nd pre-trial meeting. She is facing 96 charges under […]

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20 April 202521 May 2025

Ontario’s Animal Welfare Budget

ONLY 14% OF THE ANNUAL BUDGET GOES TO SERVICES TO PROTECT THE ANIMALS WHILE 70% GOES TO SALARIES & WAGES https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid021Ujw61fYkgPXT5wDKizAwH8qi3r9DMZ2LktX6QmTBvLJ6aCB1iRCsEBHrxsjvzzAl&id=100064841840433

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