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April is Pet First Aid Awareness Month

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A Cat Laying Down On Couch
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 […]
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WHAT WE’RE DOING TO RESPOND TO COVID-19

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EHS Covid Response
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 […]
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Help EHS Win $20,000!

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Help Us Win
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!
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Meet Tom!

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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 […]
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Meet December!

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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?) […]
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A Very Generous Donation!

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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 […]
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Coyotes In Etobicoke

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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 […]
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Cats Who Bite

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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 […]
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2019 Holiday Fundraiser Support

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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 […]
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Hearts for the Humane Society!

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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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IMPORTANT: Our shelter is temporarily closed. Our volunteers and animals look forward to welcoming you back in the near future. If you have questions or interest in any of the animals in our care please use our contact form.

Office Hours

Weekdays | 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Weekends | 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Cat Drop In Visiting Hours

Weekdays| 10:00 am – 11:30 am & 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Weekends | 2 pm – 6 pm

*All other visits are by appointment only
*No visitors permitted for Kittens from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

DOGS: Visits with dogs are by appointment only. Please fill out an application for the dog that you are interested in and an EHS representative will contact you.
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