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Toronto Humane Society has cancelled any social, educational or fundraising event, until further notice. THS will continue to monitor and reassess the COVID-19 situation.

Toronto Humane Society is closed until further notice. The COVID-19 situation will continue to be assessed.

I am writing you today with an urgent plea. During this time of great uncertainty, we are asking for your help. You may have seen that we have had to close our facility to the public as part of an effort to flatten the curve and reduce the spread of COVID-19.

To donate please visit http://www.torontohumanesociety.com/covid19.

“Sew’ we all want to help out.

To all of our amazing followers who can sew, stitch, and have an eye for design we are looking for a helping hand creating new reusable gowns! We want to do our part to reduce waste and ensure commercially available single-use medical gowns are freed up for the important work being done at hospitals around the GTA, and the nation.

It has been about 4 weeks now since we have found ourselves in this new world. This new world we live in has changed many things for Toronto Humane Society, but, today I want to assure you that we are still here to support the animals and pet guardians in our community. The update I have for you today, is long, but it provides thorough detail on everything we are still accomplishing as an organization within our community.

Giving feels good, especially when you know your money is being used efficiently. As one of Canada’s oldest charities, we understand this better than anyone. That’s why we have always worked to be as transparent with our supporters as possible. Our efforts were recognized after we made the MoneySense’s 2020 Charity 100 list!

Toronto Humane Society is excited to announce its support of the Spotify Pets campaign! This program allows you to create personalized playlists for your pet that best match their personality. Spoil you pet today with music!

We are offering our veterinary services to those animal shelters hit hardest by the nationwide lockdown. Through our new telemedicine services, they will have access to the knowledge and expertise of our Shelter Medicine Veterinary staff, for consults free of charge. This is all thanks to Purina Pro Plan Veterinary Diets.

Introducing Toronto Humane Society’s Pet Parent Support Network - a program geared at keeping pets at home with the families that love them, and out of the shelter system. This new service lends a personal touch to help those in need of assistance.

As these weeks and months have passed Toronto Humane Society has seen a significant increase in people looking to adopt. We are truly ecstatic about the local community taking an interest in sharing their life with a lovable pet that will enrich their lives just as much as they enrich theirs. We have received more than 2,700 applications from the littlest hamster and mouse to our biggest dogs, and everyone in between. We could not be happier to be connecting lives and strengthening the human-animal bond.

At Toronto Humane Society, we strongly condemn all acts of racism including police brutality and racial profiling against the Black community. We recognize that this is not just an issue we see in the United States, but one that exists globally and right here in our own backyard. Systemic racism will not be fixed by one organization or one voice, it is going to take society to come together to make this change. The humane community we have been fighting for cannot exist so long as systemic racism does, and up until now we have been structurally blind to its impact and effects on and within our organization.