Get a Full Body Workout & Support EHS! As part of our Give What You Can Campaign we’re hosting our fourth Sweat for our Shelter virtual fitness event! Our first three events, hosted by Beata (Dorota) Antoninas, Personal Trainer and Fitness Instructor from the Boulevard Club, were so successful, raising $2,000, so we’re doing it again on Monday July […]
We have an exciting new fundraising activity for our youngest supporters! The Pawsitivity Challenge is an activity-based fundraiser for kids, that gives them a chance to raise money for EHS, while learning valuable lessons about how to care for animals. The Challenge is simple: kids gather donations from sponsors for completing activities or tasks related […]
Introducing the Give What You Can campaign! Like everyone, our shelter has been impacted by COVID-19. To help ensure we’re able to continue caring for our animals, we’ve launched the Give What You Can campaign! While our shelter has reserves in the bank to ensure we’re able to weather difficult times, we rely on various […]
Virtual Flowers for Mother's Day Mother's Day is just around the corner! This year, do something extra special and send your mom a virtual bouquet of flowers to celebrate her, while also supporting EHS cats and dogs in need. Simply make a donation, and send a virtual bouquet of flowers as an eCard to a […]
Important notice about EHS due to COVID-19 Update | 04-21-2020 Our cats and dogs are thriving since being moved into foster homes several weeks ago. We’re continuing to receive many heartwarming photos and stories of timid animals gaining confidence and enjoying time in their loving home environments. Although it’s reassuring to hear and see how […]
Patiently Waiting For His Forever Family Tom is an approximately two-year-old Husky/Lab mix who weighs about seventy pounds. He was found as a stray in a remote community in Northern Manitoba and arrived at EHS in late August. Tom made lots of friends at the shelter because he is a lovely, high energy dog who loves […]
A Confident, Affectionate, Cuddly Boy We’ve already featured December, but he’s still here! And, frankly, we're surprised. Since being in a home setting with his foster family, this tough street cat has developed into a confident, affectionate, cuddly boy. He loves attention and to be around his person/people and has actually become...(dare we suggest it?) […]
Dorothy McIntyre - Legacy Donation Recently, EHS was the recipient of an extremely generous legacy donation that came to us after a supporter of our shelter passed away. Dorothy McIntyre had the foresight to plan her estate and because of this, we’re now honouring her legacy by caring for more cats and dogs as they […]
Coyote Encounters on the Rise Coyote encounters have been on the rise across the GTA and southern Ontario over the last few years. While there have been several reports of human-coyote conflicts, only one bite has been confirmed in the city in the last decade, and it was a unique situation—the victim had been feeding […]
What To Do About Aggressive Cat Behaviour As an animal shelter, we sometimes have cats in our care that act out, either because they’re overstimulated, scared or just not used to human interaction. We’ve seen cats surrendered to us because of biting or scratching, but we feel it’s important to work with a cat to […]
