12/09/2025
In honour of a special birthday girl today we are raising funds to cover some medical debt from 3 hillside dogs that this special employee stepped up for above and beyond and made sure they had the absolute best forevers
Cassia has been employed here for over 6 years now
Her rescue work in our community and all over Ontario does not go unnoticed and we are so greatful to call her part of our team.
Often we are a very full shelter and we have many dogs that get been transfered to other rescues or shelters due to all types of reasons.
Generally speaking, we can only adopt dogs out who are safe and who are healthy
In the last few years, we have seen an Increasing number of dogs arriving to our shelter with preventable illnesses like Lyme disease and heartworm. Good dogs that are sick because their owners failed them.
Due to how overwhelmed Ontario is with dogs, we have been really struggling to place larger breed dogs or dogs with the burden of medical costs, even with the most amazing rescues, we all have our limit and funds don't grow on trees.
In May, Cassia lost her grandmother and she was the most special person in her life. At the same time we had 3 heartworm dogs sitting in our shelter with potentially grim fates without support
She chose to take the money she recieved from her Nana's death benefit and use it to make a difference in 3 special lives
Cassia stepped up and said there is no way these dogs will be euthanized just because they have a big vet bill attached to them.
She made a commitment to 3 special families to make sure these dogs had their heartworm treatments AFTER they were adopted. And fundraised every dollar she could and paying the rest with her personal savings.
These 3 special pups, Itty Bitty now named Tess, Henry and Linda are all alive and have recieved their full series of heartworm medication/injections and will come back in February to he retested. Theyre thriving and so happy and best of all have completed their families too 💗
This came at a cost of a whopping $8500 total.
As someone who runs a rescue of her own, has a family and a mortgage, thats not a small number and we want to take this moment to thank her for all her hard work and most of all her love and dedication to these dogs.
If you could make a small donation to her rescue today to help her help more dogs and show her some love- we definitely think she deserves it!!
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Thanks so much Cassia and Happy Birthday!
To Tess, Linda and Henry.... we are so happy to be a part of your stories!! Have the Best lives ❤️ 💕 💓
