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Mattie's Place is a volunteer run, Toronto based dog & cat rescue focusing on Canadian pets in need.

12/21/2024

[ BRRRRR ]

It’s a cold one out today, but Irene and I want to ensure pers have gifts for Christmas.

Please be sure to stop by the parked vehicle today for your freebie Chance & Friends plushie, courtesy Pet Smart!

(Great for kids as well!)

12/21/2024

[ DOGS HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS]

Mattie's Place has some great adoptions that began today!

Though I'd love to pack it in for the holidays, I have some incredible dogs that have found incredible families and this weekend is packed with amazing adoptions I can't wait to share with you all!

The holiday season just got brighter for some awesome families and I couldn't be happier that there are wonderful dogs home for the holidays!

When we're in a dog overpopulation crisis, we have to keep showing up for those dogs and get them home!

12/20/2024

[ WITH GRATITUDE ]

Thank you to an Anonymous business who donated 45 bags of dog food to Mattie's Place after a commercial shoot.

1/2 was shared with our pet food bank clients and the other 1/2 will be used for incoming foster dogs in 2025

12/20/2024

[DRIVER NEEDED]

Can anyone help out with a drive for Ace? He needs to get from his foster to a vet appointment then back to his foster.

Roundtrip and appointment shouldn't take longer than 1.5 hours.

I'll book an appointment time when I can confirm a driver and try to accommodate their availability.

Ace is a 50 pound, good boy husky X! He's a leash puller, so he needs a driver with dog experience and physical strength to get him from car to clinic and back to car. He won't pull you to the ground but he'll sniff and pull.

If you can help out, please email [email protected]

12/20/2024

[ THIS IS CHRISTMAS! ]

Today, I got to meet an awesome human that works at a local vet clinic and wanted to uplift some rescue dogs in foster care for the holidays

Check out Mandy, from Mandys_Iphone:

YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/
IG: www.instagram.com/mandys_iphone

Mandy put together gift baskets for Bauer, Marshall, Chase, Lobster & Agnes. Today, she stopped by to meet Chase & Marshall and deliver their holiday basket personally.

This was so kind and so much fun for the dogs (I'll deliver the other baskets soon to the other foster dogs) and I'm super grateful for the effort put it to personalize each basket.

12/19/2024

[ WITH GRATITUDE ]

Thank you Krista for arranging a donation of pet food & supplies for our pet food bank clients.

And extra thanks for the gifties for Conrad, that I left at his foster home today. He's a spoiled boy and I'm appreciative of you keeping him in your thoughts

12/19/2024

[ WITH GRATITUDE ]

With thanks to Falyn Jensen / Royal LePage Signature Realty, the sponsors, volunteers & donators for the haul of pet items for Mattie's Place. I appreciate the supplies donated for our wishlist and this great initiative Falyn runs each year.

12/18/2024

[PETFINDER HAS BEEN AS RELIABLE AS MY EX-HUSBAND THE PAST MONTH 🤣]

Yesterday, they seemed to be having a day as well and our dog profiles all showed adopted.

If a dog is on the Mattie's Place website, I'm still accepting applications on that dog. If the profile won't open up or shows adopted, it's a Petfinder issue and resolve will hopefully come soon.

www.mattiesplace.ca/adopt
(the website is always real-time updated)

I'm still accepting adoption applications on the following 21 dogs:

12/18/2024

UPDATE: FOSTER FOUND - THANKS EVERYONE THAT REACHED OUT. SO MANY THANKS!

[FOSTER NEEDED]

I have an emergency intake of a 4 pound dog that needs to be moved tomorrow & requires a foster in the Toronto area, preference in the east end or north to the Unionville area.

IF YOU ARE A CANDIDATE TO FOSTER : [email protected]

🟠 Dog experience
🟠 No kids or 13+ kids only
🟠 No dogs in the foster home or no dogs over 15 pounds
🟠 No busy holiday plans or a household with a lot of coming and going for the holidays

🟩 No driving
🟩 No cost to you. All necessities come with the dog; food, leashes, dishes, p*e pads, p**p bags, toys, crate etc.

12/17/2024

UPDATE: DRIVER FOUND, THANKS NICOLE & YOUR MOM!

[ EMERGENCY DRIVER NEEDED ]

Jules' foster family has had an immediate family member emergency

Can anyone help with a drive for him from Cambridge to Toronto?

Please email: [email protected] if you can assist

12/17/2024

[ LOBSTER UPDATE ]

Little Miss Lobster (weighing in at 12.7 kg/28 pounds) yesterday, is a bit of a lemon puppy but she also keeps on pupping like there's not a single thing wrong with her and she is personality +++ and the best puppy ever in the history of puppies.

She had an overnight playdate with Buttercup last week and the 2 of them got to obsessively licking Lobster's private area. Reasons: unknown. This contributed to or helped us discover (cart/horse) vaginitis and a UTI. Puppies, puppies, puppies. There wasn't any increased urination or blood/odour so I'm thankful we had her seen all the same.

Lobster also started smelling a little, okay, a lot, "fishy" so we had her a**l glands expressed. Ahhh that feels and smells a whole lot better for her.

She's been started on some antibiotics and added fibre and she's just continuing to puppy as she puppies best.

Lastly, she has a little lump on her backside, which we all presume (vet included) is a slight reaction to her final vaccine booster/rabies vaccine a week ago. We're monitoring it.

Thank you to the Williams' for taking her to her vet appointment for me yesterday, saving me a trip to Hamilton and back.

I'm still waiting on Dr Porter for an update on her surgical intervention for her paw and elbow. I'll update her profile and our socials when that comes in.

12/17/2024

[ UPDATE ON SAWYER]

There were so many cute eyelash-less Sawyer photos I couldn't choose just one!!

October 18th, I posted Sawyer, looking for a foster home, as he was going to be euthanized that morning as his shelter right here in Ontario was full, and he needed medical attention the shelter wasn't budgeted for, so his only option was euthanasia

THE POST:
www.facebook.com/share/p/15KQRP5pbb

You all stepped up and a foster was found and it didn't take long before that foster adopted Sawyer. Of course they did, he's a perfect boy.

Sawyer went in for surgery December 2nd (over $5,000 in cost of care) for severe distichiasis (he needed all his eye lashes removed as they were causing trauma to his eyeball)

THE POST:
www.facebook.com/share/p/1B6y2ydAW5

Yesterday, Sawyer was back at VEC for a recheck and he's officially a super star patient!! His eyes are healing beautifully and so far no new lashes have emerged! He'll have another recheck in 6-8 weeks.

His cost of care for anything related to his distichiasis remains at the cost of Mattie's Place

Good job Sawyer - your Adopters - Team VEC Ophthalmology !

We'll check back in again after his next recheck.

12/16/2024

[ FREE PLUSHIE GIVEAWAY - Mattie's Place ]

We want every pet to have a gift under the tree, so with thanks to PetSmart / 1104 King St W, Toronto we have an additional 200 Chance and Friends plushies to give away to help bring some holiday cheer to local pets.

These plushies are incredibly adorable. They are the perfect size for pets or humans to cuddle. They are so soft and extremely huggable, so feel free to bring one home for yourself or a child/teen that might benefit from a few extra plushie snuggles over the holidays.

Mattie's Place will be parked on Rowena Drive at Victoria Park Avenue (white Nissan KICKS) on Saturday December 21 from 1:00 - 300 (or until supplies last) for you to come and pick up a free Chance and Friends plushie.

We have distributed 150 of these amazing plushies already to our Mattie's Place foster dogs and pet food bank clients and they are loved by all that have received them to date.

Be sure to come and get yours!

12/15/2024

[WHAT'S UP BUTTERCUP? YOU'RE ADOPTED!]

Buttercup joined Mattie's Place 2 months ago from a Northern Ontario community.

Now, 5 months old, she's a great pup; super confident and a true adventurer. But also the sweetest love you could hope to meet.

She started out at 3.5 kg/8 pounds, one month later she doubled up to 7 kg/16 pounds at her 2nd vet appointment and yesterday at her final vaccine appointment she weighed in at 14.5 kg/32 pounds

She's a beauty inside and out!

Yesterday, Buttercup was able to join a family to call her own.

They have waited years to adopt a dog wanting the timing to be right so they could dedicate all that's needed when bringing a dog home. Their dedication to dog ownership runs deep and I know they'll give Buttercup all she needs to grow into an amazing adult dog.

Congratulations Buttercup on finding your people and a home committed to everything you.

Thank you Daria for welcoming Buttercup into your home as a foster dog. You did so good with her the past 2 months and I'm appreciative of your foster commitment.

🟢 FOR 2024 I'M POSTING ADOPTION FEE VS. COST FOR EACH PET, SO PEOPLE CAN HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF MATTIE’S PLACE COST PER DOG/CAT.

ADOPTION FEE: $875
MATTIE'S PLACE COST: $764.02
(included her spay in 2025 & her care in the north and transport costs south)

BUTTERCUP'S WELCOME POST:
www.facebook.com/share/p/19SGpUNv6T

12/15/2024

[ HANDSOME HENRY IS HOME ]

6 year old Henry, weighing in at 7 pounds joined Mattie's Place 1 month ago, when he was removed from a horrific living situation by a backyard breeder of siamese cats, chihuahua's and Chinese Crested dogs. Some of her older breeding lines were CKC registered.

She died. The dogs & cats were able to be removed after 25 years of breeding.

Henry headed straight into surgery to have most of his teeth removed (he has 10 remaining) and to get his basic medical up to date, including vaccines/deworming/neutering/parasite prevention.

The immense amount of money profited from these poor dogs and cats and at least offering them basic medical care wasn't even a thought.

He has adjusted as best he can to life outside of a barn/shed to being a companion animal in a home full of love, compassion and kindness. HIs foster Mom is amazing and Henry blossomed (Kit Kat from the same situation is also with this awesome foster)

Henry is a really sweet little guy and I'm so happy he's been officially adopted and all that love, compassion and kindness he received in his foster home will carry on with his new forever family.

Henry's new people are previous chihuahua adopters, so they know the breed well and their last chihuahua passed away almost a year ago. They finally felt ready to welcome another little canine soul into their lives and Henry was exactly what they were hoping for.

Congratulations Henry on your special day! It only gets better and better and better from here little man and soon enough your horrendous past will be a distant memory in your rearview mirror.

Thank you Megan & Chilu for fostering so many dogs from Mattie's Place. I'm grateful and appreciative for your dedication.

🟢 FOR 2024 I'M POSTING ADOPTION FEE VS. COST FOR EACH PET, SO PEOPLE CAN HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF MATTIE’S PLACE COST PER DOG/CAT.

ADOPTION FEE: $875
MATTIE'S PLACE COST: $2,570.96

HENRY'S WELCOME POST:
www.facebook.com/share/p/15Ptia4SgK

12/15/2024

[ UPDATE #6 ON FUNDRAISING - $21,669 RAISED ]

On November 16th I posted that we were closed for any further intakes until February 2025

As a medical rescue I take on an immense amount of debt. I'm always appreciative of the incredible financial support you all lend and you have all stepped up again for Mattie's Place

In the span of just a couple weeks, we ran up a debt of $41,219.06 which brought on that November 16th post. Some of these dogs I have already spent $1,000's on and these cases were something new that transpired with a current medical dog or a new medical case altogether in that 2 week time-period.

🟩 FOR CLARITY: this new debt is paid by me personally as it depleted available rescue funds. I did not wait to raise the funds to pay the invoices or get the dogs the surgeries and care they need. But I do have to recover the funds back into the rescue account and preferably not carry the debt personally.

I would never run a medical rescue and not have the financial means to pay any debts before me. I just can't sustain long-term, to cover all the rescue debt continually and not have a buffer back into the account, which is now at $0 for the 1st time ever in 6 years.

STARTING DEBT: $41,219.06

NOVEMBER 17: $10,367 was raised
NOVEMBER 18-21: $4,892 was raised
NOVEMBER 22 - 27: $3,241 was raised
NOVEMBER 28 - DECEMBER 1 $1,459 was raised
DECEMBER 2 - 8TH: 3,800 was raised
DECEMBER 9 - 15TH: $1,710
_________________________________
$21,669 RAISED !!

🟣🟣 We have $19,550 to still raise to cover this debt and re-open for our target date of February 2025
(not including $1,000's paid out for follow up vetting since that post was made - it's a never ending cycle)

Thank you to each of you that are supporting this goal.

🟩🟩 ORIGINAL POST (includes a link to ALL RECEIPTS & INVOICES):
www.facebook.com/share/p/1EZzV6QaYt

1st UPDATE WITH LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS (page 1-3):
www.facebook.com/share/p/18MSpMbi3K

2nd UPDATE WITH LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS (page 4)
www.facebook.com/share/p/12AgcGZeWFM

3rd UPDATE WITH LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS (page 5)
www.facebook.com/share/p/1CvVUqtVBX

4th UPDATE WITH LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS (page 6)
www.facebook.com/share/p/1GW6pg9owB

5th UPDATE WITH LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS (page 7)
www.facebook.com/share/p/15hJXyayNN

IF YOU'D LIKE TO HELP OUT:

🟠 CREDIT CARD: https://square.link/u/7VO80uHU
(choose one-time or monthly depending on your preference)

🟠 E-TRANSFER: [email protected]

🟠 SNAIL MAIL:
Mattie's Place
1468 Victoria Park Avenue
PO BOX 420
Toronto, ON
M4A 2M2

12/15/2024

[ SHE’S NOT A CAT, BUT CLOSE ENOUGH ]

Last month Mattie's Place closed to welcoming any further pets until we paid down our astronomical vetting bill that piled on over a 2 week period ($41,000)

I did say I would be welcoming 1 cat in that post that was pre-planned, with the owners, before the closure. Unfortunately I haven’t heard from the owners in over a month so I had one spot open to fill to end out 2024.

So, late last night we welcomed teeny tiny Ivy. And teeny tiny means only a few pounds.

A northern rescue was trying to home her without success. I saw them attempt to find a home for her on rehoming groups on Facebook but unfortunately she has not seen a vet and isn’t spayed and that caused big concern for me, especially for such a tiny and vulnerable dog.

I reached out and they kindly agreed to transfer her into my care. I offered financial compensation to offset some of their costs, but they graciously declined. They just wanted her safe in rescue where she could find her adopters.

Little Miss Ivy is only 2 years old. She’s as sweet as homemade apple pie straight out of a warm oven.

She will go in tomorrow for her spay and all the basic care needed to bring her up to date medically; deworming/vaccines/parasite prevention.

We’ll also check her teeth while she’s snoozing on the surgery table to ensure all her baby teeth came out as they often get stuck alongside the adult teeth and cause major dental issues down the road for these really small dogs.

Special thanks to Candace and Alex for doing the drive north yesterday, roundtrip, to transport her to me safely. Really appreciate that kindness shown so much.

A big welcome to a tiny sweetie to our Mattie’s Place rescue family.

12/13/2024

UPDATE: DRIVER FOUND! THANKS CANDACE!

[ RIDE NEEDED - SOONEST ]

This little 3 pounder needs a ride from Sudbury to Toronto or I can meet you anywhere in-between if I can't find a driver coming through to Toronto.

Ideally one driver so she's not switching up multiple vehicles to keep her stress low.

Anyone doing the drive in the next few days?

Please email: [email protected] if you can help

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http://www.mattiesplace.ca/

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[ THIS IS CHRISTMAS! ] Today, I got to meet an awesome human that works at a local vet clinic and wanted to uplift some rescue dogs in foster care for the holidays Check out Mandy, from Mandys_Iphone: YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/@mandys_iphone IG: www.instagram.com/mandys_iphone Mandy put together gift baskets for Bauer, Marshall, Chase, Lobster & Agnes. Today, she stopped by to meet Chase & Marshall and deliver their holiday basket personally. This was so kind and so much fun for the dogs (I'll deliver the other baskets soon to the other foster dogs) and I'm super grateful for the effort put it to personalize each basket.

GRINCH PHOTOS

TODAY! It’s busy but no line up so come on over before 2:00 !!

Cashew Surgery Day

[ WE GOT THE CASHEW PARTY STARTED EARLY TODAY ] Cashew was admitted at 7:00 am for his ligament surgery at Toronto Veterinary Emergency Hospital - TVEH His surgeon, Dr. Wainberg, updated me this afternoon that his torn ligament was reconstructed and repaired with an artificial ligament and he should have a full recovery and be back on all 4's soon! He'll be discharged tomorrow. Unfortunately, he still needs to keep the splint on so continued weekly splint changes; November 18, November 25, December 2 and finally more x-rays and hopefully no further splint at his final appointment December 9. Thousands has already been invested in Cashew and this is the final big money spend, hopefully: $5,726.86 + $1,000 splint changes and $1,000/month in-home boarding. His invoice for this surgery can be found at this link, and he'll have another $1,000 added on top of that for his splint changes plus x-rays and his continued boarding costs: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ep36U5qTu PLEASE HELP IF YOU'RE ABLE. I'D REALLY APPRECIATE IT SO MUCH. 🟠 CREDIT CARD: https://square.link/u/7VO80uHU (choose one-time or monthly depending on your preference) 🟠 E-TRANSFER: [email protected] 🟠 SNAIL MAIL: Mattie's Place 1468 Victoria Park Avenue PO BOX 420 Toronto, ON M4A 2M2

[THANK YOU CP24 FOR WELCOMING ROCKY TO THE STUDIO] Did you happen to catch Amber Remedios representing Mattie's Place today with Rocky? She did amazing, didn't she!? Rocky has officially been with Mattie's Place 14 months. Such a good boy. Let's find him a home!

PETition Reading in Parliment

[OUR PET-ITION WAS TABLED YESTERDAY] Big thanks to Julie Dabrusin (MP for Toronto-Danforth) for getting behind our mission to bring awareness to our lack of animal welfare laws in Canada and the need for immediate change. She did an incredible job presenting yesterday and I'm appreciative of her efforts. Special thanks as well to each of you for also rallying behind the pet-ition and getting the needed signatures. More to come on the politicians that also stepped up to support yesterday at Parliament.

Alfie

[10 MONTHS OLD / $99 ADOPTION FEE] Alfie is a GREAT boy and eager to please his human. He's always up to learning new things that Amber Remedios wants to teach him. LEARN MORE ABOUT ALFIE www.mattiesplace.ca/adopt

[OUR LOWEST ADOPTION FEE DOGS ...] ..... cost the rescue the most money. We have dogs that have been with Mattie's Place for over a year waiting to find their forever homes. Their adoption fees are only $99 The cost to maintain a dog in care that long is expensive. Rocky & Ruby both had major illness in care, that were unexpected over the past year and together the cost was over $20,000. Grooming costs: Daboa was groomed again today: $150 per groom Cost of boarding. Food. Annual exams. Year round parasite prevention. The costs add up, and up and up and up. I'm in the fetal position in a corner, but hey, Ruby & Rocky lived to share their medical emergencies and Daboa is feeling fine and fresh today after his groom! 😅 💲 99 ADOPTION FEE DOGS (check out their profiles on the website) ⚪ DABOA (Born February 1, 2014 / Arrived May 2023) 💲 99 ADOPTION FEE ⚪ RUBY (Born August 3, 2019 / Arrived July 2023) 💲 99 ADOPTION FEE ⚪ REAPER (BORN March 13, 2019 / Arrived November 2023) 💲 99 ADOPTION FEE ⚪ BABY FACE (Born March 13, 2019 / Arrived November 2023) 💲 99 ADOPTION FEE ⚪ DEMETRI (Born 04/13/2015 / Arrived November 2023) 💲 99 ADOPTION FEE ⚪ FENDI (Born June 30, 2023 / Arrived December 2023) 💲 99 ADOPTION FEE

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