Dog Rescues and Shelters

Ontario Rescue Organizations & Shelters

 
Please Note: Breed specific rescue organizations are listed under the individual breed sections of this website.

 

For ease in finding a rescue organization near you, the shelters/rescues are listed under specific regions. Please note that some of these rescue groups do provide services/foster care throughout the province and/or in regions beyond their listing.

Shelter & Rescue Listings in Ontario

Select from the following menu for listings of
Rescues/Shelters across Ontario:


AREA CODE 416 & 647 – South Central Ontario – Toronto

  • 4 Legged Love
    — Toronto and Ontario Animal Placement and Adoption Agency
    General E-mail: dogs@4leggedlove.com
     
  • Adopt-a-dog/Save-a-Life
    — Dedicated to saving abandoned dogs and placing them in loving and caring homes in Toronto and Southern Ontario Canada.
    Tel.: (416) 787-3862
    E-mail: info@adoptadogsavealife.com
     
  • Animal Alliance of Canada/Project Jessie
    — Project Jessie is a rescue network for lost, stray and abandoned cats and dogs in pounds where they are vulnerable to being sold for research. This practice, known as pound seizure, is mandated under Ontario’s Animals for Research Act. We are fighting to put an end to pound seizure and ban this breach of trust for lost pets or pet owners forced to surrender their companions to municipal pounds.
    221 Broadview Avenue, Suite 101,
    Toronto, Ontario, M4M 2G3
    Tel: (416) 462-9541
    E-mail: info@animalalliance.ca
     
  • ANML-RESQ
    — A non-profit organization available to aide in rehoming and rehabilitating unwanted dogs and cats.
    All-breed rescue, serving all of Southern Ontario.
    E-mail: anmlresq@hotmail.com
     
  • Buffalo Pug & Small Breed Rescue
    — Working Together to Save One Dog at a Time.
    E-mail: rescue@buffalopugs.com
     
  • Coveted Canines Rescue
    —Coveted Canines focuses on dogs that are at high risk of being euthanized and those that are vulnerable to abuse.
    GTA, Toronto, Ontario
    Website: covetedcanines.org
    Facebook: www.facebook.com/covetedcanines/
     
  • Etobicoke Humane Society
    — An all-volunteer, registered charity, serving the Etobicoke community since 1987.
    1500 Royal York Road, Suite E
    Etobicoke, Ontario, M9P 3B6
    Tel. 416-249-6100
    E-mail: contactus@etobicokehumanesociety.com
     
  • ORA – Organization for the Rescue of Animals
    — ORA – Organization for the Rescue of Animals is a registered charitable organization, 100% volunteer based, promoting the humane treatment of all animals and the preservation of Wildlife. ORA is operating in and around the Greater Toronto Area and is working for the well-being and protection of all our fellow animals.
    Claudia Vecchio – President
    P.O. Box 22608
    300 Coxwell Ave.
    Toronto, Ontario, M4L 3W7
    Website: www.ora-animalsrescue.org
    Tel.: (416) 726-8895 or (416) 726-5762
    Fax: (905) 473-9604
     
  • Pomeranian and Small Breed Rescue
    — A Canadian Registered Charity Organization, devoted to saving small dogs, both mixed and purebreds, from shelters, pounds and puppy mills.
    E-mail: psbrescue@yahoo.ca
     
  • Safehome Animal Rescue
    “To provide information to those around us regarding the need to help the animals in the their community and abroad and to be directly involved in the rescue of abused, neglected, and homeless pets.”
    Tel.: (416) 712-2116
    E-mail: admin@safehomeanimalrescue.org
     
  • Siber Rescue Ontario
    — Devoted to rescuing, providing sanctuary, refuge and ultimately re-homing abandoned, stray and neglected Siberian Huskies, Inuit Sled Dogs and mixes therein. A non-profit organization that is based out of York Region, Ontario and receiving dogs in need from all over North America — taking in dogs of all physical conditions and ages from newborns to seniors.
    E-mail: siberrescueon@gmail.com
     
  • Speaking of Dogs Rescue
    — A Toronto-based organization which launched in 2001, and is dedicated to educating and enlightening people about dogs through seminars, workshop forums, outreach and rescue. Their goal is to end cruelty, abandonment, mistreatment and homelessness of man’s best friend.
     
  • Ugly Mutts Dog Rescue
    — Ugly Mutts is a dedicated team of volunteers working with a community of caring people to find permanent, loving homes for approximately 200 – 300 homeless dogs each year.
    – Hamilton, Burlington, GTA Area
    Email: uglymuttsdogrescue@gmail.com
    Website: www.uglymuttsdogrescue.com

AREA CODE 905 & 289 – South Central Ontario – Greater Toronto Area

AREA CODE 519 & 226 – South Western Ontario

  • All Breed Canine Rescue
    — Based in St. Thomas, Ontario and covering Elgin, Middlesex and Oxford counties; as well as working with a rescue network across North America.
    St. Thomas, ON
    Tel.: 519-633-6226
    E-mail: allbreedcaninerescue@sympatico.ca
     
  • Animal Love Foundation
    — Reaching out to animals who are surrrendered by their current families, homeless, abused and/or neglected in London and surrounding areas.
    Salford, ON
    Tel.: 519-485-3244
    E-mail: animalovefoundation@yahoo.com
     
  • Animal Rescue Foundation of Ontario — A·R·F
    — The Animal Rescue Foundation of Ontario, based in London Ontario, rescues, upon request, abused and abandoned dogs and cats, from First Nations and rural areas, and places them in loving homes.
    Tel.: 519-284-4445
    E-mail: General Info arfontario@sympatico.ca
     
  • Animalert
    London, Ontario
    Tel.: (519) 642-7732
    E-mail: animalert@rogers.com
     
  • Barkin Rescue
    — Barkin Rescue operates mostly out of Glencoe Ontario, but also has several volunteers in London and surrounding area.
    E-mail: teddyacres@yahoo.com
     
  • Barks and Meows Rescue
    — Goal is to rehome, socialize and provide premium healthcare to both surrenders and strays.
    Glencoe, Ontario
    Tel.: 519-494-5504
    Website: www.barksandmeows.ca
    E-mail: charmaine@barksandmeows.ca
     
  • Barlee’s Angels Rescue Network
    — A non-profit, all-breed animal rescue group based in Southern Ontario, Canada.
    E-mail: barlees@hotmail.com
    Tel.: Note: We don’t have a phone number to contact us, however, we do have phone conversations by appointment when an application from www.barlees.ca/site/adopt-from-barlees is processed.
    Website: www.barlees.ca
     
  • Bow Wow Rescue
    — A small, entirely volunteer, not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing public education, veterinary care and forever homes for abused, neglected and/or abandoned animals.
    Clinton, ON
    E-mail: mm.layton@tcc.on.ca
     
  • Cambridge & District Humane Society
    — A non-profit organization dedicated to protecting and providing shelter and comfort to the needy animals of the Cambridge and District community in Ontario, Canada.
    E-mail: spca@cambridgeweb.net
     
  • Cedar Hills Animal Sanctuary
    — “We are a not-for-profit foster-based rescue that is not funded by any government agencies and rely solely on public donations and volunteers/fosters… We are committed to finding loving, forever homes for dogs and cats of all sizes, breeds and ages. We promote animal rescue, fostering and vetting (spay/neuter) of all animals. CHAS ensures that all animals find their forever home, no matter how long that journey takes.”
    Tel.: (519) 369-6851
    Email: cedarhillsanimalsanctuary@gmail.com
    Facebook: www.facebook.com/CedarHillsAnimalSanctuary
     
  • CK Animal Rescue
    — “Non Profit rescue in southwestern Ontario, comprised of volunteers and foster families who open their hearts and homes to save dogs from high kill shelters with the ultimate mission of finding permanent, loving families. Currently developing a program of Compassion and Kindness to animals for in-class presentations for elementary school students to change future attitudes towards animals. Coming Soon – Seniors for Seniors, a program where seniors will be encouraged to adopt unwanted senior dogs who have given up hope and need a second chance.”
    Chatham, Ontario
    www.ckanimalrescue.com
     
  • Friendly Giants Dog Rescue
    — “Our mission is to rescue, rehabilitate and find loving forever homes for dogs that have been abused, neglected and abandoned and left in high kill shelters to die. The dogs are all in caring, committed foster homes in order to assess each dog individually for their needs in order to find them permanent, responsible, forever adoptive homes.”
    Sarnia, ON
    E-mail: friendlygiantsdogrescue@gmail.com
     
  • Grand River All Breed Rescue
    — Based out of Cambridge and serving Southern Ontario.
    Tel.: 519-650-9228
    E-mail: grandriverrescue@hotmail.com
     
  • Grey Bruce Animal Shelter
    — A non-profit organization dedicated to helping displaced animals find new families.
    Owen Sound, ON
    Tel.: 519-372-1911
     
  • Helping Paws Rescue
    Aylmer, ON
    E-mail: helpingpawsrescue@gmail.com
     
  • K9resQ
    Dog Adoption Service — Serving London and Local Area
    — K9resQ is a non-profit, all volunteer organization. Dedicated to rescuing dogs and adopting them to approved homes, where they will be loved, as part of the family. We encourage responsible pet care. We strongly encourage owners to spay and neuter their pets and to keep their pets’ vaccines up to date. We strive to increase awareness through education and by example. Our aim is to help all who are interested in experiencing the joy of owning and loving a dog.
    Email: contact@k9resq.ca
    Phone: 519-472-9396
     
  • Jack Russell Terrier Rescue Ontario (JRTRO)
    “Rescuing Jack Russell Terriers and any mix that may be Jack Russell Terrier.
    We are a small but mighty group of women and men devoted to helping stray and homeless Jack Russell Terriers (JRTs) find their way to loving adoptive homes and helping individuals who need to re-home their dogs due to difficult circumstances.”
    Toronto, Ontario
    Phone: 519-371-5865; Cell: 705-627-7924
    Email: jrtrobusiness@gmail.com; foster@russellrescue.org; or questions@russellrescue.org
     

  • KisMutt Small Dog Rescue
    — All Breed Canine Rescue serving all of Ontario.
    Kismutt Rescue was created to help counteract the pet overpopulation epidemic facing North America today. Our mission is to alter the course of destiny for dogs in need, dogs that have been abandoned or abused, or are in danger of being euthanized. We provide them with a happier, more derserving fate by placing them in loving permanent homes.
    Our beautiful dogs come to us from a variety of sources: shelters, pounds, puppy mills or as owner surrenders. They are socialized in our foster homes until they are ready to be adopted. Please view our website, and see our available dogs for adoption.
    St. Marys, Ontario
    Tel.: 519-283-6585
    E-mail: kismutt@sympatico.ca
     
  • Kitchener-Waterloo Humane Society
    250 Riverbend Dr
    Kitchener, ON
    Tel.: 519.745.5615
    E-mail: info@kwhumane.com
     
  • Nickquenum Dog Rescue
    — Rescues dogs in need from all over Ontario as well as Michigan and Ohio.
    Guelph, ON
    E-mail: northernpassage17@yahoo.ca
     
  • Oxford County Animal Rescue
    — “Rescuing abandoned, neglected, and abused animals in and around Oxford County, and placing them in Loving forever homes.”
    Norwich, ON
    Tel.: 226-236-3658
    Email: info@oxfordcountyanimalrescue.com
    Website: www.oxfordcountyanimalrescue.com
     
  • Pet / Friends for Life
    — A no-kill animal centre located in St. Thomas, Ontario.
    14 St. Catharine St.
    St. Thomas, ON
    Tel.: 519-631-5757
    E-mail: helphomelessanimals@rogers.com
     
  • Renewed Life Animal Rescue
    — “Our goal is to make a difference in each and every animals’ life that we welcome into the rescue. We make a promise to them to do everything in our power to find them their much deserved loving forever homes! We are strictly an in-home, foster based rescue. We do not have a kennel.
    Wingham, Ontario
    Email: renewedliferescue@outlook.com
    Website: www.renewedliferescue.com
     
  • SaveMeRescue
    — A non profit organization dedicated to saving dogs and placing them in loving and caring homes in Southern Ontario, Canada.
    Phone: 416-278-3770
    Email: contact@savemerescue.com
     
  • Second Chance Auction Animals Rescue (S.C.A.A.R)
    —”SCAAR started with one little sick puppy in 2013. We started pulling the unwanted/sick dogs from livestock auctions in Ontario. We now take owner surrenders, dogs from animal control facilities and high kill shelters. Our goal is to work together to end the overpopulation of dogs and cats in Ontario. All of the dogs are treated like our own pets, they are housed in loving foster homes that are skilled with certain dog behaviors.”
    London, ON
    Phone: 226 785 6639
    Email: scaar.london@live.com
    Website: scaarontario.weebly.com
     
  • Simcoe and District Humane Society
    — Helping animals in Norfolk County
    24 Grigg Dr.
    Simcoe, ON
    Tel.: (519)428-9161
    E-mail: info@s-dhs.ca
     
  • Teacher’s Pets
    — A volunteer, non-profit organization that rescues abused and abandoned animals, often ones who are scheduled for euthanization.
    Windsor, ON
    Tel.: (519) 258-3613
    E-mail: teacherspets07@hotmail.com
     
  • Tiny Paws Dog Rescue Canada
    — TPDRC is a registered Canadian charity dedicated to re-homing and rehabilitating all small breeds under 20 lbs. Small breed mixes are the primary concern but purebreds are always assisted.
    416 Talbot Road East RR # 3
    Leamington, ON N8H 3V6
    Tel: 1-800-774-8315
    E-mail: generalinquiries.tpdr@gmail.com
     
  • Upper Credit Humane Society
    — “To facilitate and provide leadership on matters related to the prevention of cruelty to animals and the promotion of animal welfare in the communities served.”
    5383 Wellington Road 24
    Erin, ON
    Tel.: (519) 833-2287
    E-mail: adoptions@uppercredit.com
     
  • Windsor/Essex County Humane Society
    — The Windsor/Essex County Humane Society is a registered charity that provides temporary shelter for more than 6,500 animals each year.
    1375 Provincial Road
    Windsor, ON
    Tel.: (519) 966-5751
    E-mail: adoption@windsorhumane.org
     

AREA CODE 613 – South Eastern Ontario – Ottawa / Kingston

  • Arnprior and District Humane Society
    Arnprior and District Humane Society is a non-profit organization serving the Ottawa Valley.
    490 Didak Drive
    Arnprior, ON
     
  • B.A.R.K. — The Bytown Association for Rescued Kanines
    — B.A.R.K.’s primary focus is the rescue and rehabilitation of abused or abandoned dogs in the Ottawa area; to provide a support system for families to try to keep dogs in their original homes; to find new homes for unwanted dogs; to educate children and adults on how to choose and care for a pet, how to behave around an unknown dog, and what to do if a dog chases you.
    Contacts:
    Sharon McKeil, Tel.: (613)738-0119, E-mail: smckeil@primus.ca
    Nadine Marcotte, Tel.: (819) 776-5090, E-mail: nadine.marcotte@sympatico.ca
     
  • Birch Haven Rescue & Rehabilitation Services
    — Located in Eastern Ontario, Canada, Birch Haven Rescue and Rehabilitation Services specializes in assisting Giant Canine Breeds and Horses. The area of assistance is across North America and the area of placement is mostly in Eastern Ontario.
    A no-kill shelter providing a safe “haven” for the animals for life should they not be adopted.
    Location: Oxford Station, Ontario
    Website: www.birchhaven.org
    E-mail: gwen@birchhaven.org
     
  • Blue Moon Catahoula and Big Dog Rescue
    — A small non profit rescue group located between Ottawa, Cornwall and Montreal.
    Finch, ON
    Tel.: 613-984-1450
    E-mail: catahoula@sympatico.ca or katiesfreckles@gmail.com
     
  • Freedom Dog Rescue
    — “Freedom Dog Rescue is a small, non-profit, all-breed dog, all-size foster based rescue which was founded in Ottawa, Ontario. We are dedicated to rescuing homeless and abandoned dogs, dogs from shelters and taking in desperate owner surrenders who can no longer care for them. We do so by working with committed volunteers, foster homes, local veterinarians, and our trainers. We are able to rescue dogs in need and provide them with loving temporary care and find them well-matched carefully screened “furever homes”.”
    Ottawa, Ontario
    Email: freedomdogrescue@gmail.com
    Website: www.freedomdogrescue.ca
     
  • Friendly Giants Dog Rescue
    — “Our mission is to rescue, rehabilitate and find loving forever homes for dogs that have been abused, neglected and abandoned and left in high kill shelters to die. The dogs are all in caring, committed foster homes in order to assess each dog individually for their needs in order to find them permanent, responsible, forever adoptive homes.”
    Ottawa, ON
    E-mail: friendlygiantsdogrescue@gmail.com
     
  • Gananoque & District Humane Society
    — A small group of dedicated individuals working together for the good of all animals.
    Gananoque, ON
    Tel.: 613-382-1512 or 844-437-3647
    Fax: 800-878-6876
     
  • HART – Highland Animal Relief Team
    Bancroft, Ontario
    E-mail: info@hartanimalrelief.ca
     
  • Home Again Bancroft
    — A foster based all-breed dog and cat rescue located in Bancroft, Ontario.
    Email: info@homeagainbancroft.ca
    Website: www.homeagainbancroft.ca
    Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/Homeagainbancroft2/
     
  • Homes for Abandoned Pets
    — A non-profit volunteer effort providing care and rehabilitation for homeless dogs and occasionally cats.
    Lansdowne, ON
    Tel.: 613-382-7706
    E-mail: k9rescuecrew@sympatico.ca
     
  • Homes for Paws Dog Rescue
    — “Our Mission is to rescue, rehabilitate and rehome dogs on death row. We rescue dogs throughout Canada and the United States.”
    Ottawa, Ontario
    Email: homesforpaws@hotmail.com
     
  • I Am Alive Dog Rescue
    — A volunteer organization in Eastern Ontario dedicated to saving abandoned dogs and placing them in loving and caring homes. We are committed to saving dogs of all ages that would otherwise be senselessly killed for the lack of a loving home. Most of our rescues are pulled from high-kill dog pounds where they have been slated for certain death through no fault of their own.
    Telephone: (613) 348-3330
    E-mail: iamalivedogrescue@gmail.com
    Website: www.iamalivedogrescue.com>
     
  • Kingston Humane Society
    — KHS was founded in 1884 with the purpose of providing services to Kingston and the surrounding communities by caring for injured, abused and homeless animals. The Kingston Humane Society is a non profit – charitable animal welfare organizations supported solely by public and corporate donations, memberships, grants, bequests, fundraising campaigns and fees for service.
    1 Binnington Ct
    Kingston, ON
    Tel.: 613-546-1291
     
  • Lanark Animal Welfare Society
    — An independent, registered charity dedicated to promoting the well-being of all animals. Every year the shelter staff deals with over 2500 animals. These are lost, abused, or abandoned animals which are cared for until their rightful owners can be found or they can be placed in new homes.
    Glenview Road
    Smiths Falls, ON
    Tel.: 613-283-9308
    E-mail: shelter@lanarkanimals.ca
     
  • Leeds Grenville Branch Ontario SPCA
    800 Centennial Road
    Brockville, ON
    E-mail: brockspca@hotmail.com
     
  • Lennox Addington SPCA
    156 Richmond Blvd E
    Napanee, ON
    Tel.: 613-354-2492
    E-mail: l_and_a_spca@hotmail.com
     
  • Loyalist Humane Society
    — A non-profit registered charity, incorporated in 1999.
    Picton, ON
    Tel.: 613-476-4951
    E-mail: loyalisthumanesociety@hotmail.com
     
  • Marshall’s Dog Rescue
    — “Marshall’s Dog Rescue is a non-profit foundation located in Perth, Ontario. We have over 3 acres of fenced in land, for the dogs to run and play. Although we rescue dogs of all sizes, age and condition, Marshall’s Dog Rescue was created especially to help fill a need in the local rescue world.”
    Perth, ON
    E-mail: marshallsdogrescue@gmail.com
     
  • Mature Dog Adoptions, Registered Charity
    — A non-profit, all-volunteer organization rescueing dogs 5 years and older, up to seniors, all across Ontario.
    Tel: 613-548-8858 (9 am-8 pm only)
    E-mail: maturedogs@sympatico.ca
    Website: www.maturedogs.petfinder.org
     
  • Minpinerie
    Ottawa, ON
    E-mail: minpinerie@yahoo.ca
     
  • Ottawa Humane Society
    — A non-profit, community-based organization and a registered charity. Since 1888, the Ottawa Humane Society has have been the leading organization providing a safe haven for sick, injured and homeless animals in Ottawa.
    101 Champagne Avenue South
    Ottawa, Ontario
    Tel: (613) 725-3166
    E-mail: ohs@ottawahumane.ca – General Inquiries
    Click Here for contact information.
     
  • Quinte Humane Society
    — A non-profit organization in Belleville, dedicated to serving and protecting the animals of Hastings & Prince Edward Counties.
    Belleville, ON
    Tel.: 613-968-4673
    E-mail: pets@quintehumanesociety.com
    Website: www.quintehumanesociety.com
     
  • Renfrew County Branch – Ontario SPCA
    387 Paquette Rd
    Petawawa, ON
    Tel.: 613-588-4508
    E-mail: ospca@webhart.net
     
  • Sirius K9 Rescue
    — The Sirius K9 mission is to save dogs in Animal Control facilities from euthanasia; ensure their good health and happiness; and find each dog the ideal adoptive family and forever home.
    Tel.: 613-839-7370
    Email: siriusk9@bell.net
    Website: www.siriusk9rescue.com
    Facebook: www.facebook.com/siriusk9rescue
     
  • Smitty’s Shih Tzu Rescue
    — Dedicated to rehoming abused/neglected dogs of all breeds, with small breeds being our priority.
    1474 Ham Road
    Bath, ON, K0H 1G0
    E-mail: kswack@kingston.net
     
  • SPCA de l’Ouest du Québec / SPCA of Western Quebec
    — A non-profit organization dedicated to finding good homes for any lost, found, or abandoned animals which may come through our doors. We’ve been serving our region since 1982 and will be for many years to come.
    659 Auguste-Mondoux Street
    Gatineau, (Aylmer Sector) QC
    E-mail: ahspca@storm.ca
     
  • Valley Animal Rescue
    — “Valley Animal Rescue is committed to working with all municipal organizations, pounds, shelters and rescues towards the common goal of protecting animals in distress and serving the good of the community. Our goal is to help ease the burden on other organizations while expanding the community’s capacity to keep animals off the street, improving the lives of homeless and abandoned animals in our area and matching families that want to be responsible and loving pet owners with the right pet.”
    Ottawa Valley area
    Website: www.valleyanimalrescue.ca
    Facebook: www.facebook.com/ValleyAnimalRescue
     
  • Westminster Pet Sanctuary
    — A dedicated, hard working registered charity.
    Curran, ON
    Tel.: (613) 673-2699
    E-mail: kxo156@aol.com

AREA CODE 705 – North Eastern Ontario/Northern Ontario

  • Alliston and District Humane Society
    — The ADHS is an affiliate of the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA) covers the townships of New Tecumseth, Mulmur, and Adjala-Tosorontio as well as the villages of Cookstown, Rosemont and Hockley and the Town of Schomberg. The ADHS provides a lost and found reporting service, humane education, and animal protection and cruelty investigation services.
    Beeton, ON
     
  • All Heart Pet Rescue @ Bear Creek Kennels
    — All Breeds and German Shepherd Rescue.
    RR3- 430 Oakwood Road, Powassan, Ontario
    Tel.: 705-724-2630
    E-mail: bearcreek@efni.com
     
  • Animal Assistance Group of Sault Ste. Marie
    — A small non-profit organization that aims to help control the pet population by offering low spay/neuter costs to individuals in desparate need. We also trap feral cats/kittens and find forever homes for them. We open our homes to unwanted cats/kittens and dogs/pups and find foster homes to place them until we can find their forever homes.
    E-mail: animalassistancegroup@hotmail.com
     
  • Animal Shelter For Huntsville
    — A not-for-profit charitable organization located in Huntsville, Ontario.
    19 Bickley Country Drive
    Huntsville, ON
    Tel.: 705-789-6012
    E-mail: pets@vianet.ca or christie_animalshelter@yahoo.ca
     
  • Carter’s Forever Rescue and Sanctuary
    — “All Breeds, no dogs turned away. Dealing mainly with bully breeds, brachycephalic. A safe haven for dogs not wanted, old, injured.”
    Tel.: 705-641-1090
    Email: martha.trotts4@gmail.com
     
  • Cottage Paws Rescue Muskoka
    — “Cottage Paws Rescue is a 100% Volunteer based organization committed to a compassionately helping homeless or unwanted animals in need through medical care and rehabilitation and matching them with their perfect forever homes.”
    Tel.: 705-794-9791
    Website: www.cottagepawsrescue.com
    Facebook: www.facebook.com/cottagepawsrescuemuskoka/
     
  • Finding Them Homes—James Bay Pawsitive Rescue
    — “The mandate for our rescue is to help with northern communities who otherwise have no options for stray/surrendered dogs and have no vet accessibility. We have adopted all across Ontario.”
    Barrie, Ontario
    Email: barriehelpingnortherndogs@yahoo.ca
    Website: www.findingthemhomes.com
     
  • GBAR Georgian Bay Animal Rescue
    — Caring for Georgian Triangle’s needy animals since 1999, GBAR is a ‘NO KILL’ animal rescue, run solely by unpaid volunteers, a registered charity dedicated to helping lost, injured, abandoned, neglected animals; providing compassionate care, spay/neuter, adoption, ‘second chances’ at life. It serves the municipalities of Collingwood, Wasaga Beach, Stayner, Clearview Township, The Blue Mountains, Meaford, and surrounding areas.
    GBAR, P.O. Box 492
    Collingwood, ON L9Y 4B2
    Tel: (705) 445-5204 (leave message)
    E-Mail: cdhspets@yahoo.ca
     
  • Humane Society of Kawartha Lakes
    — Established in 1986, the Victoria County Humane Society serves the City of Kawartha Lakes.
    111 McLaughlin Rd
    Lindsay, ON
    Tel.: 705-878-4618
    E-mail: (General Office) shelter.hskl@cogeco.net
     
  • LOYAL Rescue
    Peterborough, ON
    Tel.: 705-772-4916
    E-mail: loyal_rescue@yahoo.com
     
  • Manitoulin Pet Rescue
    — “Manitoulin Pet Rescue is a volunteer operated, not-for-profit charitable organization (pending). Our goal is dedicated to rescuing and re-homing the unwanted or displaced cats and dogs of Manitoulin Island. The dogs and cats coming into our program go into caring and committed foster homes in order to assess each animal individually for their needs in order to find them permanent, responsible, forever homes. We work very closely with two other volunteer groups on Manitoulin Island: Fixing Our Felines, and Manitoulin Pet Save. Manitoulin Pet Rescue is sustained by public donations.”
    Mindemoya, Manitoulin Island, Ontario
    Tel.: 705.377.4800
    Email: juliemcdermid@amtelecom.net
    Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/982467728461819/
     
  • Northern Ontario Animal Welfare Society
    — NOAWS is a non-profit group dedicated to help solve the consequences of pet over-population in the communities of Iroquois Falls, Cochrane, Matheson, and surrounding areas. We care for, neuter or spay, and find permanent homes for homeless animals.
    Iroquois Falls, ON
    P0K 1G0
    Tel.: 1-705-360-0930
    Email: adoptions@noaws.com
     
  • Precious Paws Rescue
    — A non-profit rescue dedicated to saving the lives of homeless pets. Located in Barrie, Ontario, but also rescue dogs from high-kill shelters everywhere. Barrie, ON
    E-mail: preciousrescue@hotmail.com
     
  • Rescue 1 At A Time
    — A dog and cat rescue based out of Minesing Ontario, just outside of Barrie.
    Email: fareway@sympatico.ca
    Website: www.rescue1atatime.com
     
  • Society for Animals in Distress
    — To promote the welfare of domestic animals, to provide shelter and care (including a spay/neuter program) and prevent suffering for those animals in need and to ensure that all animals in the Shelter are either spayed or neutered before they are adopted. To this end we operate a no-kill animal shelter (for dogs and cats); only in very specific circumstances (suffering, terminal illness and/or dangerous aggressive behaviour) will an animal be euthanized.
    33 Perini Rd
    Elliot Lake, Ontario
    P5A-2T1
    Tel.:(705) 461-3197
    Email: society4animals@bellnet.ca

AREA CODE 807 – North Western Ontario

  • Fort Frances Friends of Animals
    — A private, non-profit organization, dedicated to providing care and shelter to the numerous unwanted, abandoned and neglected animals in the Rainy River District.
    Fort Frances, ON
    Tel.: 807 274 2144
     
  • It’s A Dog’s Life Fostering Network
    — Formed by a group of concerned citizens in Kenora Ontario. The aim of It’s A Dog’s Life is to find as many homes for abandoned and stray animals in the city that we can.
    Kenora, ON
    Tel.: 807-467-dogs.
     
  • Northern Lights Dog Rescue
    — A volunteer run foster home based rescue, meaning each dog is cared for by foster families in a home environment until a forever home is found. Northern Lights Dog Rescue helps find loving homes for dogs in Northern Ontario.
    Thunder Bay, ON
    Email: judy@northernlightsdogs.com
    Website: www.northernlightsdogs.com
     
  • New Hope Dog Rescue
    — A non-profit volunteer run organization located in Thunder Bay Ontario, Canada.
     
  • Paws for Love Dog Rescue
    —Paws for love is a registered Canadian charity working with First Nations in Ontario and dedicated to helping as many homeless puppies/dogs as possible to find loving forever families.
    Thunder Bay, Ontario
    Phone: 807-623-3116
    Website: paws4love.ca
    Facebook: www.facebook.com/paws4love.ca
     
  • Sandy Lake Dog Rescue
    — Sandy Lake is an isolated reserve in northwestern Ontario, located approximately 8 hours northwest of Thunder Bay. It is only accessible by airplane and by ice road for 6 weeks during January and February. There are no vets in Sandy Lake and as a result there is a large dog overpopulation problem. Most dogs in Sandy Lake live outdoors year round, even when the temperature drops to minus 40 degrees. Puppies are born under porches, in woodsheds or anywhere the mother can find shelter. As the number of strays increase they are trapped and shot. Sandy Lake Dog Rescue was created as an alternative to shooting. The goal of the rescue is to find homes for as many of these amazing dogs as possible.
    Sandy Lake, ON
    Tel.: (807) 822-9939
    Facebook: www.facebook.com/Sandy-Lake-Dog-Rescue
    E-mail: sandylakedogrescue@knet.ca

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