April is Pet First Aid Awareness Month
This month we’re reminding pet parents to keep supplies on hand to help their dog or cat if they experience an illness, injury or poisoning. It’s easy to put together your own pet first aid kit. Hopefully you will never need to use it, but if something happens you’ll be prepared. Pet first aid kit […]
Read MoreWHAT WE’RE DOING TO RESPOND TO COVID-19
Important notice about shelter hours due to COVID-19 To help keep our volunteers safe, we’re taking steps to reduce the risk of COVID-19. To do this, we’ve made the decision to close the shelter to general visitors until further notice. We’re also making efforts to run the shelter with fewer volunteers in the building at […]
Read MoreHelp EHS Win $20,000!
For the entire month of June, every $1 donated to EHS through Canada Helps (with a minimum $3 donation) will enter us into the Great Canadian Giving Challenge!
Read MoreMeet Tom!
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 […]
Read MoreMeet December!
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?) […]
Read MoreA Very Generous Donation!
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 […]
Read MoreCoyotes In Etobicoke
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 […]
Read MoreCats Who Bite
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 […]
Read More2019 Holiday Fundraiser Support
Thank you for supporting our holiday fundraiser! We want to give a huge thank you to our supporters for making our holiday fundraiser a major success! We’re still confirming all the numbers, but between the launch of our Pawfect Gifts for the Holidays campaign on November 21 and when it ended on December 31, we […]
Read MoreHearts for the Humane Society!
Between now and February 14, show our shelter animals some love by buying a paper heart! Hearts be posted on a wall in our shelter and are available for $5, $10, $20 or more. Choose to put your name on the heart, or even the name of a beloved pet or an animal from our […]
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