Last year, we interviewed RVT Laurie Williams, CE and One Health Manager at the Ontario Association of Veterinary Technicians for our podcast. She shares what you can expect to happen during a veterinary dentistry visit, and how to make sure your pet’s teeth stay healthy all year long.

Listen now and share with your friends! Make sure to subscribe so you can be the first to hear new content from us, every other Tuesday.

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Pet Dental Health Tips

Keeping your horse healthy: Dental health tips

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Now that you have given your best friend a forever home, it’s time to give your pet forever health and happiness, too. Protecting your rescued pet with insurance allows you to fulfill your promise to them – that in exchange for unconditional love you’ll safeguard their wellbeing.

In this podcast, we’re talking about pet insurance, and why it’s so valuable for pet owners. Check it out, and let us know what you think!

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Pet Insurance to the Rescue

Don’t have a pet yet? Visit iAdopt.ca to learn about our holiday adoption campaign.

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In this podcast, Senior Director of Shelter Health and Wellness, Dave Wilson, joins us to highlight tips you need to know as a pet owner during the holidays.

One of his main points? The biggest thing to think about, he says, is sources of stress. During the holidays there’s lots of excess energy and noise – so it’s important to make sure pets have a safety zone. This is so that they can have their space, away from excitement. For cats, this might be a little cat carrier, and for dogs could be a mud room or bathroom with their favourite items inside – treats and toys – to make it more comfortable.

Listen to the podcast for more great adoption tips for preparing your home for a new furry friend!

iAdopt for the Holidays

Very few things in life can compare to the unconditional love and companionship given by our animal friends, especially when those friends have been given a second chance through adoption. iAdopt for the Holidays is a national campaign focused on positive, real-life pet adoption stories. All as a means to encourage others to adopt and experience a similar happy ending.

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On our podcast, we talk with Cathy about steps to take when finding injured wildlife through the winter months. Tune in to learn helpful tips and useful information!

Learn more about Shades of Hope Wildlife Refuge and the work they do! Visit https://shadesofhope.ca/

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You may also find this blog helpful, What to do when you see injured wildlife on a road. 

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Feral cats in your backyard. One caretaker’s story of finding and caring for a colony of feral cats behind her workplace.

“Once we knew they were there, we had to do something.”

Leianne McCallum and Joanne Barnes found a colony of feral cats behind their workplace and knew they couldn’t walk away from them.

In this podcast, we visit this feral cat colony and hear from Leianne how they initially got involved in caring for the group of cats, as well as what challenges they’ve faced in the winter months.

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Doctor Temple Grandin was diagnosed with autism as a child. She went on to pursue work in psychology and animal science. Listen to learn more about her life, what led her to her career, and the work she does to improve animal welfare for livestock.

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Dr. Temple Grandin

Grandin believes having autism gives her the ability to understand animals in a way most other people don’t.

“My cognitive style is more like how an animal is,” she says, explaining how she thinks more visually than most people.

As she grew up she says she started learning how people around her looked at the world differently.

“When I was a teenager I thought everybody thought in pictures the same way I did, I didn’t know that my thinking was different,” says Grandin.

Grandin describes asking people to think about church steeples, and how most people see just one, standard image. For her, she says she can see countless different steeples when she has that thought.

This different kind of thinking led Grandin towards consulting the livestock industry. Her goal was to create the development of humane livestock holdings for cattle and other livestock.

More resources

Find out more about how animals can benefit mental health! Spread the word and help end the stigma around mental health.

Autism Spectrum Disorder & how animals can help

Benefits of pets for our mental health

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It may be nearing the end of the season, but there’s still lots of information that would be helpful to know!

This week we’re reposting one of our Animals’ Voice Pawdcast’s where we interviewed Dr. Nicole Colapinto, Technical Services Veterinarian from Merck Animal Health. She shares with us the ways to tell the tick species apart, what their season is, and also how to protect our pets.

Did you find the information helpful? Comment below and tell us what you think!

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Learn more about Merck Animal Health

http://www.merck-animal-health.ca 

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Today we’re sharing a podcast from last year, interviewing Todd Stosuy is a Field Services Manager with the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter. He works with homeless in the community to help them care for their pets.

Find out how he does it, and how this can apply to your context, by listening today!

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These cats are healthy, sterilized, vaccinated, microchipped, ear tipped and in need of a new, non-traditional home environment. Some examples of these new homes we are looking for could include barns, stables, auto repair shops, woodworking shops, wineries, breweries, greenhouses/nurseries/garden centres, churches, storage facilities/warehouses. Working cats are not suited to be your typical indoor pets and, as unsocialized animals, they have no desire to be lap cats. These are working cats, former street cats who are used to outdoor life, prefer minimal to no human contact, and who will happily tend to any mouse, mole or vermin problems for the small cost of a bowl of cat food and water set out daily, as needed veterinary care and shelter in a garage, barn etc.

And because we spay/neuter these cats before they leave the Ontario SPCA, adopters never need to worry about endless litters of kittens!

Interested in adopting a working cat? Read the FAQ on our website and apply to adopt at the bottom of this page!

Cassandra is an employee of the Ontario SPCA Provincial Education and Animal Centre. When she heard of a cat at the centre who needed a special home that would allow him to work, she offered her barn as a resource.

Listen to our podcast or watch the video to learn all about the program, and how it’s helping cats like Jax!

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Steve Feldman, executive director of the Human-Animal Bond Research Initiative (HABRI) spoke with us on Skype about this amazing foundation and the research they’re conducting. We learn why pets are good for children, for people with mental illnesses, and the rest of us too!

Listen to learn more!

How Science Proves the Human-Animal Bond

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