Growing dog populations an issue in some remote communities, shelters under pressure
Phoebe Sutherland rushed last week to capture a stray dog that nipped an elder in her community of Moose Cree First Nation.
“We had an elder startled, scared, barked at and nipped. She was pretty shaken up,” said Sutherland, an animal control officer in the community. “I captured him, but there’s still a lot of dogs that are loose.” “You see dogs everywhere. There’s constant barking,” said Dickson, 41. “Now it’s mating season, so it’s gotten a lot more dangerous.”
“We’re still spinning since the delivery because we were already over capacity. We’ve already taken in so many litters,” said Jill Pessot, who has been operating the organization called Petsave for 23 years.Animal shelters like hers are under immense pressure, she said, particularly since requests for pet adoptions have dropped as more people return to offices or go back to work full time following the height of the pandemic and don’t have the capacity to fully care for their animals.
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