Tucker
is our large, phat and disabled cat, she was temper mentle!
Some days were delightful and other days were quite painful.
Tucker was in our care at the shelter for 3 years, she was in
a metal cage for 2 years and then we had to let her out as she
was just to big for the cage!
Tucker owned the front office, she would perch herself on the
chair closest to the main entrance and terrorize the dogs as
they walked through to go outside! Most staff, some customers
and almost all our dogs receieved some type of love bite or
scratch that has scarred us all for life :) we never thought
for one moment that Tucker would find her forever home!
One afternoon a wonderful woman came to our shelter and when
she heard about Tucker's story and how long she has been with
us, she decided to adopt her :) You would never guess it, Tucker
is now living in her forever home with another cat and a dog...
and they all get along fine. Tucker gets regular grooming and
loves to snuggle...
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SHELTER
RAT BERNARD PASSES AWAY PEACEFULLY IN HIS SLEEP
On Thursday
April 2, 2009, Bernard, our lovable little shelter Rat, the
only small animal to survive the fire passed away in his sleep
at his foster home. He had been suffering for several weeks
from a condition the vets felt was brought on by a brain tumour
not related to the fire. He was just over 1 year old.
Bernard was
7 weeks old when he was rescued along with several other Rats
from being used for snake food. He was starving, scared and
covered in mites when we got him. Ruby took one look at this
little guy and fell in love. He reminded her of the first
shelter Rat Ben, as he was a black Berkshire. He became the
shelter mascot immediately and lived that year growing very
large, getting all kinds of treats and being spoiled rotten.
He became a regular at humane education talks where he was
always a hit, even getting his picture in the paper.
The night of
the fire he was the last animal brought out alive and we were
so thankful. He was like our little miracle. We asked Rolanda,
a very special volunteer at the shetler who loved Rats if
she could care for him while we had nowhere to take him. She
was at the vets in 15 minutes after the call to pick him up.
Bernard continued his school visits after the fire, even travelling
as far as Gravenhurst to visit every classroom in a school.
He was a very
special little guy who touched a lot of people in his
short life. He will be missed.
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Coco
our famous pitty
was brought in through Investigations because her owners had
abandoned her. Coco is a 5 year old pittbull that everyone adored
at the shelter. She was in our care for 2 years before she was
stolen from us, threw the help of thelocal police and media,
Coco was returned to us one week later unharmed with lots of
toys! Coco was in our care for a total of 3.5 yrs, when all
our hope of finding a home for her started to fail, she was
adopted by a wonderful couple and Coco now lives in a loving
home with her family and four legged friend
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Sassy
came to
us as a barn cat with a litter of kittens. She was born with
only 3 legs! Sassy is a very sweet and loving cat and she had
free roam of the shelter. She has been adopted and is being
lavished with love!
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Happy
Endings |
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We adopted Bart at the end of March 2009, we were concerned
that the fighting between Bart and our 10 year old male Chihuahua
would escalate into something disastrous.
We continued to work with Bart, went through some training and
worked with him at home...
gradually, things simmered down and although he continues to
be a handful, due to the fact that he is
still a puppy with TONS of energy, he is a great dog and we
are happy to have him! He is always into everything, loves to
bird/squirrel watch, watch television and he thinks he is a
lap dog. He also feels that
he is the Wal-Mart greeter at the dog park and everyone there
always comments on how beautiful he is!!

Jack a 1 year old Border Collie/Shepherd cross that was surrendered
to the Humane Society of Durham Region.
His owners were to elderly to give him the kind of love and
attention is so desperatley needed!
He has been adopted and Jack went home to his new loving family
Jan 8/09

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