Ontario SPCA and Humane Society mobile spay/neuter unit rolls into Cornwall
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Cornwall, ON (May 25, 2022) – The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society’s 38-foot Mobile Animal Wellness Services unit is in Cornwall this week for a spay/neuter clinic for cats from underserved pet families.
Funded by the City of Cornwall, the SPCA Mobile Animal Wellness Services unit will be providing spay/neuter surgeries from May 25-27. A total of 64 appointments have been pre-booked in advance through the city’s subsidized spay/neuter program.
“We are pleased to be able to return to Cornwall with the SPCA Animal Wellness Services unit to assist the community with its ongoing animal management efforts,” says Jennifer Bluhm, Vice President, Community Outreach Services, Ontario SPCA and Humane Society. “We celebrate the City of Cornwall for making animal management a priority, as well as the pet families who have registered their cats for this mobile spay/neuter clinic.”
Thanks to a grant provided by the Pet Valu family of stores, the Ontario SPCA launched its SPCA Mobile Animal Wellness Services Unit in 2019 year to deliver wellness examinations and spay/neuter services to underserved communities. In addition to supporting hundreds of local animal shelters and charities through Companions for Change events since 2018, Pet Valu has funded five rescue transportation and mobile health clinics for animal rescue organizations in Nova Scotia, Ontario and British Columbia.
To learn more about SPCA Mobile Animal Wellness Services, or to make a donation to help stock the unit with medical supplies and cover operating costs, visit Ontariospca.ca/mobileservices
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The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society is a registered charity, established in 1873. The Society and its network of communities facilitate and provide for province-wide leadership on matters relating to the prevention of cruelty to animals and the promotion of animal well-being. Offering a variety of mission-based programs, including community-based sheltering, animal wellness services, provincial animal transfers, shelter health & wellness, high-volume spay/neuter services, animal rescue, animal advocacy, Indigenous partnership programs and humane education, the Ontario SPCA is Ontario’s animal charity.
The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society Provincial Office sits on the traditional territory of the Wendat, the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Mississaugas of Scugog, Hiawatha and Alderville First Nations and the Métis Nation. This territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. The treaties that were signed for this particular parcel of land are collectively referred to as the Williams Treaties of 1923.