Vote for Humane Kind Update

In May 2020, Nutram recognized the increasing need for pet shelter funding during the global pandemic. Through our Vote for Humane Kind campaign, we invited you and your community to nominate charitable animal organizations. The top 10 organizations voted by communities across Canada each received $5,000 for everyday care necessities, including vaccinations, spaying or neutering, food and nutritional requirements, and more. Six months later, the recipients have shared with us how you were able to help them reach their goals to support animal welfare.

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#9 Cochrane Humane Society

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The Cochrane & Area Humane Society (CAHS) provides food, shelter, medical care and the opportunity for adoption to unwanted, surrendered, lost and unclaimed animals while promoting responsible pet ownership through its educational programs, rural spay/neuter programs, and public fundraising events. Through the generosity of donors and volunteers, we are able to provide extensive medical care and behavioural rehabilitation to these animals. Some animals have special needs and are fostered by volunteers for extended periods of time to ensure a suitable home can be found to meet their unique needs.

The CAHS is a highly dedicated and committed charitable organization participating in initiatives that reduce indifference towards, suffering of and overpopulation of animals. We are focused on ensuring that matches between pets and their adoptive families are appropriate and supported before and after they leave the shelter. The CAHS staff and volunteers work hard at socializing the shelter animals through enrichment, training and behaviour modification to help the transition into a new home be easier for everyone. We know that when a well-socialized animal is placed in a good home, the result is a successful and permanent adoption.

The CAHS is an open door animal shelter. Because no animal from our service area is turned away, sometimes animals arrive at the shelter in poor physical condition or with serious behaviour issues.

The costs associated with medical care is one of the shelter’s greatest expenses at $100,000 annually. Every year numerous animals arrive at the CAHS with broken bones, eye injuries, skin diseases such as mange and ringworm, infectious and contagious diseases such as parvovirus and distemper, which is usually fatal if not treated, and various other illness and traumatic injuries such as burns or lacerations. Many of these animals require emergent care and support from the CAHS medical team. Animals arriving with extraordinary medical needs require a longer than average stay at the shelter and require greater care with post-surgical follow up, medications, bandage changes, specialized baths and rehabilitation plans and programs.

The generous $5,000 donation was directed towards care and medical supplies, treatments, surgeries, medications, diagnostics, extraordinary procedures and rehabilitation therapies.

There are many ways you can help. Please visit: https://www.cochranehumane.ca/donate/support/ to find out how you can support the Cochrane & Area Humane Society.