Turd Wranglers Pet Waste Removal Services Ltd.

07/01/2025

Calling Our HugABull Community!

We’re reaching out to our amazing supporters to help us support those in need. Our Reach Program is currently looking for gently used leashes and muzzles (no rips, frays, or broken parts, please!).

As temperatures rise, many unhoused individuals and their canine companions are seeking refuge at cooling centers. While it's fantastic that these safe spaces are available, dogs must be leashed and muzzled to ensure everyone’s safety and comfort.

If you have any leashes or muzzles that you're no longer using, we would be so grateful for your donation.

Drop-off locations: Abbotsford, Chilliwack and Hope.

To arrange a drop-off or ask questions, email us at [email protected]

Thank you!

07/01/2025

Happy Canada Day!
If you have a regular Tuesday service we will be there today. Our Wranglers are hard at work today!

06/29/2025

It’s BBQ season!
Guests Coming Over? Don't Let P**p Be the Surprise! 💩

Make sure your yard is guest-ready by using a Turd Wranglers bucket service or scheduling regular clean-ups with Turd Wranglers! 🤠

No more last-minute scrambles, just a clean, fresh yard every time.
Reliable. Convenient. Dog-approved.🐾

Check us out on the web www.turdwranglers.ca

06/28/2025

PAINT YOUR PET is Always Wildly Popular, and Chilliwack residents have proven they feel the same! The 1st event at Fortitude Wine Bar had all tickets sold within 24hrs, so they have decided to release an ENCORE date! If you missed out the first time, here is your chance to try to get in on this limited seating ENCORE event! All details are on the link right here! Hope to see you there! https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/paint-your-pet-night-best-experience-for-animal-lovers-in-chilliwack-tickets-1438466244259?aff=oddtdtcreator

06/27/2025

✨Did you know... ✨

Great news for dog-loving families in the Township of Langley! 🐾
According to the new Animal Control Bylaw passed on June 9th, you can now welcome up to three dogs into your home — and if you have an authorized secondary dwelling, that number goes up to four! More room for more furry love. Head over to our website to see our adoptable dogs that would be happy to fill that spot! 🐶

Please take some time to read the new bylaw to ensure you are fully informed! It is linked below and on our website.

https://www.tol.ca/en/services/resources/bylaw-services/bylaws/Popular-Bylaws/Animal-Control-Bylaw-(No.-6140).pdf

06/25/2025

Sharing from our friends at Fortunate Ferals.
In the world of TNR, we run into cats that seem almost adoptable.

They rub against your legs, meow at feeding time, and hang close while you’re filling bowls.

But as soon as the food’s gone or a stranger shows up, they’re gone too.

These are what we call feeder-friendly cats, and it’s important to understand the difference.

A feeder-friendly cat isn’t tame.
They’ve learned to associate a specific person with food. They may appear affectionate or vocal, but only in the narrow context of feeding time.

Outside of that moment, they often remain skittish, hands-off, and would suffer in a confined or indoor setting.

As Neighborhood Cats explains:
“Cats can act social to a feeder, but still be feral or semi-feral. They come close for food, but won’t tolerate being touched or confined. This isn’t trust..it’s conditioned behavior.”
(Source: Neighborhood Cats, 2021)

And Alley Cat Allies reminds us:
“Behavior at feeding time alone is not a reliable indicator of adoptability.”
(Source: Alley Cat Allies, 2022)

That’s why TNR is so important. These cats don’t need to be “rescued” in the traditional sense..they need to be fixed, vaccinated, and returned to the only home they know.

🚫 Feeder-friendly ≠ Pet
🚫 Feeder-friendly ≠ Safe for adoption
✅ Feeder-friendly = Good candidate for TNR and continued outdoor care

So if a cat seems sweet at supper, pause before assuming it’s ready for adoption.

Food can bring them close ,but freedom keeps them safe..

Sources:

Neighborhood Cats. (2021). Socialization Levels in Community Cats. neighborhoodcats.org
Alley Cat Allies. (2022). Understanding Feral Cat Behavior. alleycat.org

06/24/2025

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06/24/2025

Join this FREE video event with Monique Brignoni and discover how to meet your pet’s final chapter with presence, trust, and love — transforming grief into healing, and fear into a profound spiritual connection that continues to comfort you long after your pet leaves this world.

06/23/2025

🔥It’s a scorcher out there🔥

Here's some SUPER SIMPLE but IMPORTANT hints for feeding/providing water to community cats during heatwaves like this

🔥WATER:
▪️put out extra bowls of water
▪️use bowl that's narrow but deep (slows down evaporation process)
▪️add ice cubes to the water
▪️freeze water in a plastic water bottle then place frozen bottle in the bowl of water (to keep it cold longer)
▪️place bowl in shaded spot

🔥SHADE/SHELTER:
▪️cats can get heat stroke; try making a shaded area they can retreat to (under a deck, placing a tarp over areas they like to sleep etc)

🔥FOOD:
▪️if you're feeding specific times of days, try to do it in the morning or evening (when it's cooler)
▪️avoid leaving food out for too long (so it doesn't attract insects/other critters)
▪️IF you are concerned about the food spoiling in the heat/sun, lean towards giving kibble not wet food
▪️ants: to prevent getting into the food:
- fill a large bowl with water, then place a smaller bowl of cat food in the middle (creating a "moat" that insects can't get into)
- create an “ant barrier” by surrounding the bowl with baking soda
- if you're using a feeding station consider placing it elevated slightly off the ground
- purchase "ant-proof" bowls (click here: https://tinyurl.com/yypva6a6)

THANK YOU Community Cats Toronto FOR THIS EXCELLENT LIST OF HINTS!!!
🔥🔥🔥🔥.

With warmer weather come insects. Keeping your cat colony’s food and water bowls ant-free can prove a challenging task. There are a number of ant-proof bowls on the market. Below are the bowls tested by Alley Cat Allies. The Antser A combination of water and soap are put in the bottom of The Antse...

06/23/2025

AS THE WEATHER HEATS UP FOR MANY OF US, we thought we'd once again share this important information.

TOO HOT TO FUNCTION: A look at the dangers dogs face from overheating – and how to prevent heatstroke in your own dog this summer.

When summer arrives and the weather warms up, it is natural for us to want to spend more time out with our dogs, while not always realising the risks higher temperatures can pose for them. Dogs, in general, manage heat less well than us because they have fewer sweat glands and mostly lose heat from their mouths through panting. Plus their inner body temperatures are already slightly higher than ours. (A normal human body temperature is between 97.6 - 99.6 Fahrenheit when a dog's is between 101-102.5 F).

Moreover once a dog's temperature rises to 104 F or more it begins to be in serious trouble of heatstroke, collapse and even organ failure and possible death. And this can all happen frighteningly fast. Humidity as well as heat can also be particularly dangerous to dogs.

Despite this reality, however, the number of people I still see out in hot weather making their dogs chase after balls or - my own personal horror – forcing them to run after them on hot tarmac while they themselves are running, or on bikes – is still too depressingly high. As well as being unbelievably thoughtless and inconsiderate. Ignorance is possibly mostly at the heart of this, as well as a dangerous human misconception that a dog is experiencing, or coping with, heat in much the same way that they are. So we really need to realise that they are not.

PREVENTION
Key things to do when the weather heats up is to always walk your dog at cooler times such as very early in the morning or later in the evening. And cut out all the more active stuff like ball chasing. With elderly dogs, and those with heart or breathing issues it may be best not to exercise them at all in higher temperatures.

Black coated dogs, and mostly black or darker colours, naturally absorb more heat and thus may find hotter weather more uncomfortable, especially if they are not more acclimatised to it. During the hotter parts of the day your dog also needs to rest in the shade, or a cooler room (with a fan or air con), to lessen as much strain as possible on their heart rate and metabolism.

Plenty of cool fresh drinking water should also always be available to them. There are also special cooling mats or jackets you can now buy for dogs.

Under NO circumstances leave dogs in a car or other vehicle in hotter or even just warmer weather - which can so often prove to be a deathtrap for them. Even in overcast weather, or with the windows open, cars can still heat up frighteningly fast inside. Also never leave any dog anywhere outside where they do not have ready access to shade and cool water.

HEATSTROKE – THE EARLIEST SIGNS
Heatstroke is one of those conditions in dogs that begins with milder symptoms – i.e. excess panting, greater difficulty breathing, lethargy. Then moves on to more serious ones – like drooling, foaming at the mouth, shaking, vomiting/diarrhoea, pale or bright red gums – before finally escalating into seizures or collapse and loss of consciousness. And you must be mindful of how rapidly one set of symptoms can progress to another without more urgent and immediate intervention to cool your dog down again. (More on how to do this a bit later).

Every day in warmer weather, keep remembering how utterly fragile a dog's heat regulation mechanisms can be, and it may not take much in the way of excess exertion during the heat to trigger a crisis whereby they are no longer able to sufficiently cool down again. Be aware too that even if dogs are playing or swimming in rivers, paddling pools or the sea in warmer weather, the excess internal heat they are generating from such exertion may still raise their overall temperature too high for the cooler temperature of the water to compensate for.

Ultimately it does neither humans nor dogs any harm to lower their normal activity levels in response to more extreme temperatures. It really is the safest thing to do. Meanwhile the link below is really helpful in outlining more about over-heating in dogs, what to do if it happens in your own dog, and also more tips on keeping dogs cooler:

Even in the UK dogs can suffer from heatstroke - read our vets' advice

06/23/2025

Sadly, this healthy senior Labrador Mix named Lexie suffocated on June 17th in a chip bag leaving her family devastated. Deborah Lewis writes, "Last night, after arriving home from my trip, I tragically found my sweet, precious Lexie girl had passed away suddenly and unexpectedly. The way she passed was very traumatic to experience, but while I did know it was a risk that exists and something that happens more than we realize, I know there are still so many who have never known it to be a possibility, and due to this I want to use her passing to hopefully spread awareness and help others take whatever precautions they can for their fur babies. Though in having a dog like Lexie, who was so extremely motivated in getting into anything and everything she could, good and bad for her, and in always trying to take the most precautions I could, and being a Vet Professional, it just shows that it doesn’t matter and these freak accidents can happen to anyone at any time and very quickly. However, I still think it’s important to provide the details of her passing to at least spread the awareness to others.

Unfortunately, Lexie got herself into a bag of chips, which were on the counter at what we felt was a safe distance from her reach. She has always been a counter surfer and we have always been cautious in keeping things far enough back. I have forgotten chip bags out many times without incident, even found some ripped open I’d forgotten over the years, these things happen sometimes. Sadly, this time, Lexie, and we did not get so lucky.

Lexie somehow got this bag, that had been in the same place for over a day, and put her head into the bag to eat the chips. Unfortunately when dogs get into chip bags like this, with their heads completely in, whether they steal them from a table, the counter or an empty bag from the garbage, while they are eating and licking, the bag seals and forms a vacuum around their heads which they cannot break or get out of. This seal cuts off their oxygen supply, and sadly without being able to breathe or get out of the seal, they then pass away.

This is what happened to my Lexie girl as I found her deceased on the dining room floor with her head inside the chip bag. An accident like this leaves no one to blame, and can happen so quickly whether we are at home with them or out. I don’t like to think that she suffered, and that she simply lost consciousness while enjoying herself a delicious snack, which she sadly just then never woke up from, and that this happened quickly.

Please I urge you to be aware of the risk chip bags (or similar) can be. Ensure they are always put away in a high cupboard if you have pets, and cut open any empty ones to be thrown into the garbage. Though also, it’s important to know sometimes we just forget, or they still get them somehow, and these things can just happen.
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Pet suffocation happens daily and within minutes. Please share in honor of sweet Lexie to help spread awareness. It's our best defense against pet suffocation.
www.preventpetsuffocation.com
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