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Animal Welfare Service – PAWS Enforcement agency

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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14 April 202514 April 2025

Online selling platforms a major contributor to animal abuse

Kijiji, Facebook Marketplace, buyn’sell groups and websites continue to be a major contributing factor in providing unvetted access to abusers, unethical breeders, animal brokers , dogfighters, dog flippers. ZERO regulation. […]

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14 April 202514 April 2025

Ontario Animal Welfare – Are the taxpayers getting value for money and are animals being protected?

We say no, not at all. The animals continue to suffer and the government continues to carry on not getting pushed, significantly pushed to fix a completely broken system. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0HUhQCLDFThQErtXGXLF7P2Abqh979Rtnt53ocCTdUAR4GomT7dLLD7AuPLLXTd8ul&id=100064841840433

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25 November 202413 March 2025

Open Letter to AWS

A letter to the Ontario Government, Animal Welfare Services https://www.facebook.com/61554942272913/posts/pfbid026qgwmjUbMR96nFwTChZNrTjC113CkVF9dDm35iLwqXQHmxRrvwZzmo2rvg1XK6HEl/?

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