Rising prices depart households struggling to care for his or her animals

Cornwall, ON (October 31, 2025) – The Ontario SPCA Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry Animal Centre is seeing first-hand the influence that financial challenges are having on households and their pets. With the rising value of dwelling, extra persons are discovering it tough to afford primary pet care, and animal centres throughout the province are feeling the consequences. 

Earlier right this moment, 15 cats and kittens had been introduced into care on the Cornwall animal centre after being left exterior the constructing in a single day. Whereas all of the animals are actually secure, this case underscores the challenges many individuals face after they merely don’t know the place to show for assist. 

“The price of meals, housing and veterinary care continues to rise, and we perceive that households are struggling,” says Candice Gordon, Supervisor, Ontario SPCA Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry Animal Centre. “We wish folks to know they’re not alone. The Ontario SPCA is right here to assist – and we encourage anybody who wants help to achieve out earlier than they really feel like they’ve run out of choices.” 

To assist maintain animals with the households who love them, the Ontario SPCA gives a wide range of neighborhood help providers, together with distributing pet meals to native meals banks to maintain furry bellies full, and internet hosting cell spay/neuter and wellness clinics to make primary veterinary care extra accessible and scale back pet overpopulation.

To fulfill the rising wants of the neighborhood, the Ontario SPCA not too long ago broke floor on a brand new Cornwall & Area Animal Centre and Veterinary Clinic, which can open in 2027. The brand new 8,000-square-foot facility will embody an in-house, charity-based spay/neuter and primary care clinic. The clinic will present reasonably priced spay/neuter surgical procedures and important veterinary care, serving to to scale back pet overpopulation and making preventive care extra accessible for native households. As soon as operational, it should have the capability to carry out hundreds of spay/neuter procedures yearly – a key step in addressing one of many area’s most urgent animal welfare challenges. 

“This new facility is an funding in our neighborhood’s future,” says Gordon. “By enhancing entry to reasonably priced care, we will help maintain pets of their houses, forestall unplanned litters, and scale back the variety of animals getting into shelters.” 

The Ontario SPCA is looking on the neighborhood for help because it continues to take care of animals in want, together with these 15 cats and kittens. To donate or study extra, go to ontariospca.ca/sdg 

Arianne Kirkey
Neighborhood Outreach Coordinator,
Ontario SPCA Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry Animal Centre
(613) 937-7622
akirkey@ontariospca.ca 

The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society is a registered charity that has been altering the lives of animals for over 150 years. The Society offers care, consolation and compassion to animals in want in communities throughout Ontario. It values all animals and advocates to deal with them with respect and kindness. The Society strives to maintain pets and households collectively and does so by a wide range of neighborhood help providers, similar to sheltering and adoptions, together with emergency sheltering, feral cat administration applications, animal transfers, meals distribution, humane schooling, animal advocacy, and spay/neuter providers.  

The Ontario SPCA doesn’t obtain annual authorities funding and depends on donations to supply applications and providers to assist animals in want. To study extra, or to donate, go to ontariospca.ca. Charitable Enterprise # 88969-1044-RR0002. 

The Ontario SPCA Stormont Dundas & Glengarry Animal Centre is situated on the lands of the Akwesasne Mohawks and their ancestors. We additionally acknowledge the Algonquin, Haudenosaunee (Ho-den-oshow-nee) (Iroquois), Huron-Wendat (huron-wen·dat), and Abenaki who’re neighbours and companions to the Akwesasne Mohawk.