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Mattie's Place is a volunteer run, Toronto based dog & cat rescue focusing on Canadian pets in need.
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11/09/2024

[ HOLY PUPPIES BATMAN ]

Yesterday we welcomed 2 beautiful shih tzu puppies, Batman (black - 1.6 kg/3.5 pounds) & Robin (tan - 2 kg/4.5 pounds). Only 10 weeks old, from a litter of 9 that had intake completed by various other rescues.

Unfortunately, part of the litter is symptomatic for parvo, including Batman. Robin has not show any parvo signs but f***l testing came back today that he is indeed parvo positive.

Parvo is often deadly. The disease causes major gastro upset and takes an immense toll on a puppy and without aggressive medical treatment lives are typically lost.

They were originally welcomed October 31 by the rescue and Batman tested positive for parvo November 1 and got quite ill.

The rescue asked to transfer 2 of the puppies to Mattie's Place as they have 2 other puppies from the litter also parvo positive and it's a lot to manage for any rescue.

With thanks to TVEH who made space yesterday in isolation for the puppies if needed on intake. Cost would be between $6,000 - $10,000 per puppy to treat.

I spent 462.50 on food & supplies for them yesterday plus the cost of their medical intake appointment which is presumably in the $300 range. I'll post the receipt in the comment. We'll then need to go through the vaccine protocols and of course spay/neuters in 2025 at the cost of Mattie's Place on a strict, non-negotiable adoption contract. When they are in the clear and have their 2nd round of vaccines last week of November, I'll also need to get a good groom for both of them. So, a good chunk of funds have been and will be spent on these pups

Special thanks to Dr. C at Rouge River Animal Hospital who opened up an last minute appointment to see the puppies to make transport easier to rendezvous with me.

Yesterday they had full nose to tail exams. They are both doing really well. No fever. Eating. Engaging. Puppy energy. Hydrated. Solid stool.

Both have been put on Fenbendazole to get ahead of any intestinal infection and for excellent parasite control. The last thing these puppies need to deal with is giardia or all the major parasites often found in puppies.

Thank you to the fosters for the other rescue that poured their hearts and souls into these 2 puppies the past week. And thanks to my 2 fosters as well, that welcomed parvo + puppies. It's a big ask and so many of my fosters stepped up and I'm incredibly grateful and appreciative.

We will remain on strict isolation protocols for both these puppies for now and see how they do week over week.

I'm fairly confident these puppies are out of the woods and they should be back to normal puppy living with isolation lifted by November 23. If we don't hit any bumps in the road for them medically, they'll be ready for adoption in and around that time-frame.

Welcome kids to the Mattie's Place family. We're hoping the worst is behind you and it's smooth sailing from here. If not, we're ready to support you with whatever you need.

Please vaccinate and deworm your puppies starting at 6-8 weeks. It's the difference between life and potential death for a young life.

And please get puppies from reliable sources. So many backyard breeder puppies have parvo and various medical issues. Backyard breeders are spinning all sorts of stories to cover the fact they're backyard breeders. Often citing it was just a one off "oops" litter. It's trending and people are buying puppies off social media and sell sites because it's so easy to get a puppy this way and then finding their puppies are sick and vet bills are astronomical with no recourse. An easy puppy to buy is probably not a safe puppy to buy. Unless you're willing to take on an immediate $10,000+ medical debt.

11/08/2024

[ THEY'LL SOON BE READY TO FIND THEIR ADOPTERS ]

Jules & Fripon joined Mattie's Place last weekend. They have received a complimentary professionally groom - thanks to Fripon's foster Mom, Sam, who is a groomer.

Yesterday, they had all their vetting completed, which included neuters, vaccines, deworming, parasite prevention etc.

They also both received dental care:

Fripon(DOB May 22, 2022): had 2 incisors extracted and a good teeth cleaning

Jules(DOB May 06, 2018): had 15 teeth extracted (upper and lower incisors & upper premolars) and a much, much, much needed cleaning of his teeth.

Both are males. Both weigh in at 3.9 kg / 8.6 pounds. Both are really great dogs.

Watch for their profiles to be loaded on the website soon
www.mattiesplace.ca/adopt

11/08/2024

[THANK YOU Pet Valu Don Mills and Lawrence ]

In 2016 Mattie's Place began helping local community members with pet food for their pets. In 2017 I officially launched the No Hungry Pets Project. In 2019 we merged it with Mattie's Place and ran the pet food bank out of the rescue centre, feeding 1000+ pets monthly.

It got so large that we had to hire off-duty police for crowd control. It was a massive undertaking but was amazing how many pets we could help feed.

When the building was sold to condo developers earlier this year, the rent was raised to an unattainable amount and vacating the space felt absolutely right, so we closed the Mattie's Place brick and mortar rescue centre location.

Not wanting to leave our pet food bank clients without assistance, we changed the model to help on a smaller scale with the alternative being closing down the pet food bank offering altogether.

Mattie's Place currently assists 5 buildings with pet food (3 high rises and 2 walkups). We have a building captain in each building that we drop the food off to and they distribute within their building community to pet parents in need. There's not anywhere near enough food to feed all the pets in these buildings, but we are all doing the best we can to help as many as we're able to help.

With thanks to our pet food bank volunteers; Eduardo, Lisa and Heidi who pick up pet food from our donation locations below and distribute bi-weekly, direct to the buildings captains, who then distribute to their neighbours in the building.

GLOBAL PETS 2975 Kingston Rd, Scarborough
PET VALU 3003 Danforth Ave, Toronto
PET VALU 3415 Yonge Street, Toronto
PET VALU 1656 Queen St East, Toronto

This week, we received a donation from Pet Valu Don Mills and Lawrence (thank you Krista for facilitating) of pet food & supplies and I was able to delivery it to building captain Chuck as an extra boost in food for his neighbours pets.

Thank you Chuck, Stacie, Susan (John), Donald and Jacqueline for taking on the building captain role in each of your buildings with integrity and a desire to help your community as a liaison between Mattie's Place and pet parents.

11/07/2024

[ GOOD BOY SAWYER - OH YES HE IS! ]

October 18th I posted a plea for a dog that was just a couple hours away from euthanasia in one of our Ontario shelters. Sawyer had some medical costs that exceeded the shelter's ability to adopt him out.

Each of you stepped up to foster and ultimately one of my previous adopters reached out to foster Sawyer. I'll be forever grateful to the army of people, all of you, that helped me save this dogs life.

Sawyer is 65 pounds of absolute love and devotion to everyone he meets. The nicest dog, ever.

Sawyer was diagnosed with distichia, misgrown eyelashes on both his lower lids causing eyeball discomfort and trauma. Sawyer is going in for cryoepilation surgery on December 2 with the Ophthalmology department at VEC.

He requires bloodwork and meds pre-op and that will happen November 20.

All of this cost falls into the $5,000 range, which will be covered by Mattie's Place
(invoice link: www.facebook.com/share/p/1B3RUUj2j6 )

When you're as good a boy as Sawyer, you good boy yourself right into the hearts of your fosters and you can guess where this leads ....

Sawyer is officially ADOPTED!! Congratulations good boy!!

It's the best day for me, Sawyer, the shelter and his fosters now adopters.

I'll continue to post updates on his journey through to his surgery recovery.

ADOPTION FEE: $875
MATTIE'S PLACE COST: $5,020.08
(plus cost of bloodwork/meds Nov 20)

ORIGINAL CALL TO ACTION FOR SAWYER:
www.facebook.com/share/p/1883uRrzfh

11/07/2024

[DRIVER NEEDED PLEASE]

Missy Lobster is due for her vaccine booster and needs a ride to & from her vet appointment Tuesday morning.

Her foster lives about 30 minutes away and the appointment shouldn't take longer than 15 minutes

If you can assist, please send me an email: [email protected]

She'll reward you with so many kisses!!

11/06/2024

[WITH GRATITUDE]

Thank you to the MP's that showed support to our PET-ition:

MP Adam van Koeverden

MP Anna Gainey

MP Bardish Chagger

MP Chris Bittle

MP Francis Scarpaleggia

MP Leah Taylor Roy

MP Lindsay Mathyssen

MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith

LEARN MORE:

HOC: www.facebook.com/MattiesPlaceToronto/videos/1127550415455066

WEBSITE:
www.pet-ition.ca

11/05/2024

[URGENT - DRIVER NEEDED PART 2]

Fripon needs a ride from his vet appointment back to his foster home. I have a driver that can take him as far as the nearest 407 ramp in Mississauga or Milton (whatever is most convenient for you)

Looking at a 30 minute "ish" drive from that point to his foster home on Nordale Crescent, Hamilton

Rendezvous time would be between 4:00 - 4:30

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

11/05/2024

UPDATE: FILLED
(working on return trip now)

[URGENT - DRIVER NEEDED]

Fripon needs a ride from his foster home to rendezvous with another foster that can take him to his vet appointment in Markham Thursday morning.

Looking at a 30 minute "ish" drive.

Pickup would be Hamilton and the rendezvous point would be wherever is most convenient for you near a 407 on ramp in Milton or Mississauga.

Rendezvous would need to be 7:00 am

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

11/05/2024

[ UPDATE ON CHASE ]

Senior boy Chase joined Mattie's Place this morning with a "yes, I'll take him and I'm coming to get him now as the clinic is holding a surgery spot open for him today"

If you missed his welcome post from this morning:
www.facebook.com/share/p/SNL5zhNfqqS84PAn

Chase is estimated to be about 12 years old, weighs in at 55 pounds and found himself as a stray (likely dumped) with a plethora of medical issues. Nobody came to claim him from the shelter.

Chase is in desperate need of a groom, but surgery came first so he'll have to wait 10-14 days until his stitches come out. 🤢

This morning I picked Chase up from the shelter and he headed straight into surgery. Thanks to the team at Balmy Beach Pet Hospital for making room for Chase today last minute.

WHAT DID WE DO TODAY FOR CHASE?

✅ Chase had a really good teeth cleaning. He did not require any teeth to be extracted but he needed to whiten up that smile.

✅ Chase had x-rays on his hips and unfortunately he has bad double hip dysplasia. He's been put on some amazing joint supplements thanks to a generous donation from Fera Pets. And he'll be on daily pain medication for management. He's mobile and can hustle but there is some gait deficiency that the medicated support will help.

✅ Chase had a gnarly neck mass removed. It's been sent out for testing and we'll see what the lab sends back later this week. 🤞

✅ Chase had multiple little masses on his upper and lower lids surgically removed.

✅ Chase had a large panel of bloodwork completed as well as a urinalysis and all looks good for a senior boy. Some potential mild kidney disease, but we're just monitoring for now.

✅ Chase has a BB pellet lodged above the base of his tail

It was a really big day for Chase and he can use all your positive vibes into the universe for excellent lab results in a few days.

11/04/2024

[IT'S A GOOD DAY TO SAVE A DOG]

Today, we welcome Chase to Mattie's Place. An estimated 12 year old local shelter boy with a big medical problem.

He is heading into surgery this afternoon to have an ulcerated tumour removed. This tumour is likely benign, but we'll send it out for testing to confirm. Either way, it needs to come off for his quality of life.

He may be palliative or he could be an adoptable boy. We'll know more later this week. Either way, his story doesn't end in a shelter.

He's got some old boy arthritis and is slower to get up. Happens to the best of us Chase.

With shelter testing he seems to be fine with dogs ( I have a video of him meeting a chihuahua politely) and he's a super duper love bug with humans.

Just a lower energy, good old boy that deserves a 2nd chance

Today is his 2nd chance.

He's a neutered boy. Any other medical needing to be completed will be done today.

Welcome Chase to the Mattie's Place rescue family!!! We got you good dog.

11/04/2024

[HE WAS ON THEIR "RADAR"]

10 weeks ago, I welcomed Radar and his sister Blip (adopted) to Mattie's Place who started life in a remote northern Ontario community.

Blip & Radar's Mom passed away when they were only a few days old, so surrogate Mom Echo stepped in to take on Mom duty and kept them healthy and strong.

Born July 3, Radar arrived weighing in at a teeny tiny 4 pounds. At his last vet appointment, October 19th, he weighed in at 17 pounds! That's some serious foster lovin' 😁

Radar is the best boy. Kind to all humans and animals. Just a true salt of the earth puppy. Though he is a puppy and puppies are A LOT of work and Radar is no different.

A mother-son duo with beagle experience was looking to adopt but they have a visiting 2 year old that spends time at the home, so it was important the puppy was respectful of a tiny tot in the space.

Radar is the best little guy and I trust him with everyone he spends time with.

I've had at length conversations throughout the adoption process about how much work a puppy is and they are on board with training and the pitfalls that come with puppyhood.

Yesterday, I took a 2 hour Sunday drive to bring Radar home. He met the 2 year old and did wonderfully - so patient and kind.

It's so important for me to see the dog interacting in the potential adopters home with the immediate family/friends that will mostly be in that dog's life. The best part of adoption for me is driving them home and watching them settle into their new life.

Congratulations Radar on your adoption day! I'm cheering you on little guy.

Thank you Denise W and Deeann for sharing foster duties for Radar. I'm appreciative and grateful.

🟢 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: $690

11/03/2024

[OUR FUTURE GENERATION]

This incredible 7 year old Girl Guide wanted to step up and help local pets, so she started collecting pet supplies from friends & neighbours!

Today, she joined in to help out at the nail trim fundraiser, alongside Mattie's Place volunteers Kim and Amber.

Thank you Blaire (and your Mom & brother) for being a supporter of Mattie's Place and helping enrich the lives of local pets.

11/03/2024

[ HELLO BOYS ]

Yesterday, Mattie's Place welcomed 2 gorgeous Pomeranians through from a backyard breeder that is closing her doors, also registered as a CKC breeder for many of her dogs. Authorities are also involved and have advised her she needs to get the remainder of the dogs into shelter/rescue.

She knows her dogs personalities, yes, and she feeds them decently, yes, but that's where the care ends.

I've done an intake on 18 of these dogs since March. They are mostly carbon copies of one another; no leash skills, not housetrained, wary of strangers, not environmentally sound. But they also all blossom into the most beautiful souls and most have been adopted by their foster homes.

If you put the work in and have immense patience and compassion, they give back 110% and become the most loyal and loving companions.

They are going in for a groom ASAP. Thank you to Fripon's foster Mom, Sam, who is a groomer & offered to groom both dogs. Then to the vet to get all caught up medically.

Welcome boys to our Mattie's Place rescue family. Glad to have you.

🔵 Jules - (light coat)

8-10 pounds
Male, Not Neutered [never seen a vet]
DOB: May 06, 2018
Human friendly
Cat tested and passed
Okay with dogs but can be bossy

🔵 FRIPON (chocolate)

8 - 10 pounds
Male, Not Neutered [never seen a vet]
DOB: May 22, 2022
Human friendly but can be nervous initially
No cat experience
Ok with dogs, but can be bossy

Thank you to both fosters; Liz & Sam who stepped up for these boys.

BIG thanks to Critter Cabs: Animal Rescue Transports and their volunteer driving team for their assistance in this transport undertaking that had to be completed over a 2 day period based on the dogs location, a couple hours outside of Montreal.

Special thanks to Amanda from Wi******er Kennels for kindly overnighting them and keeping them safe and comfortable until their final transport leg yesterday to Toronto.

I'm so appreciative to the many that help Mattie's Place with our rescue efforts.

And as always, thank you to One Last Chance Rescue for letting me know these boys needed rescue support.

11/01/2024

[LOTS OF NEW FACES ADDED TO THE ADOPTABLE LIST TODAY!]

🟢 10 / 15 dogs have a $99 adoption fee
(fully vetted & come with all their supplies)

Please send them out to your networks to help me find them amazing homes.

11/01/2024

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Canada·THE FIFTH ESTATE

Struggling with high pet med costs? Canada's competition watchdog calls for more choice and affordable options
Regulations for distributing medications vary across country

Shelley Ayres, Lisa Ellenwood, Madeline McNair and James Dunne · CBC News · Posted: Nov 01, 2024 4:00 AM EDT
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I think it's important to note that I believe your veterinarian needs to be behind the prescription but there should be more options for dispensing at the pet owners discretion.

Having access to more cost efficient pet medication would absolutely be impactful for pet owners. From a rescue perspective, we want to try and keep pets and their people together as we have a massive canine overpopulation crisis in Ontario and across Canada so affordable medication for pet owners is one aspect of keeping pets out of rescues and shelters and home with their owners.

Mattie’s Place rescues approximately 150 pets a year and with many being medical cases, I am more than familiar with the cost of medication through veterinary medicine. The veterinarians I partner with for the rescue initiative offer rescue discounts which helps with costs and they are also willing to write a prescription to have a medication filled at a human pharmacy if it is a medication that can be found in human pharmacies and often there is a cost savings, filling this way.

At Mattie's Place we do have owners wanting to surrender their pets because of rising daily and monthly costs of maintaining their pets, that they can no longer afford with rising costs on many essentials. I always advocate for pet owners to invest in pet insurance to help against unexpected costs and speak to their veterinarian about cost struggles if that's something a pet owner is facing. Online pharmacies are also an avenue to review if the online pharmacy is reputable and the medication is being prescribed through a veterinarian for the safety of the pet.

And, of course, Mattie's Place has and will often support pet owners with costs if I'm in a financial position to do so.

10/31/2024

[ UPDATE ON BART - BACK INTO SURGERY TODAY ]

RECAP: Bart joined Mattie's Place August 15th. He arrived with double cherry eye which required surgical correction and that was completed.

He also decided to jump over the stairs to get to the backyard at his foster home instead of taking the stairs and broke his elbow. He had corrective surgery September 11

He's been healing well through all his rechecks, but this week his body started to reject the hardware in his leg and he had to head back into surgery today to have all the hardware removed.

Though Bart was adopted by his foster family, I'm still responsible for any medical relating to this injury, so this surgery comes at an additional cost to Mattie's Place: $991.38

To date with his multiple leg surgeries and double cherry eye surgery his stay has cost Mattie's Place well over $10,000

Hopefully 6 month old Bart is done with any further surgeries in his lifetime!

If you'd like to contribute towards Bart's surgery today:

🟠 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

BART'S WELCOME POST
(his sister Lisa is still available for adoption):
www.facebook.com/share/p/qgrBTJRhTYQNgsxg

10/31/2024

[ AN UPDATE ON SAWYER ]

If you're not familiar, the best boy Sawyer was going to be euthanized October 18th in an Ontario shelter. Not because he's a problem dog. Solely because he required $5,000 in medical care that was not in the shelter budget.

I was able to find an amazing foster for him and he joined Mattie's Place October 22. October 24 he was at our veterinarian who recognized Sawyer needed speciality medical care as his case was extreme. October 30 Sawyer was seen at VEC and he is scheduled for surgery Dec 2, 2024.

DIAGNOSIS: distichiasis
Sawyer's case is extreme as he has many, many, many, many hairs on both lower eyelids that are compromising his eyeballs and each hair is unusually coarse and thick, making the concern even greater.

TREATMENT: cryotherapy
Each hair follicle is individually destroyed by cryotherapy and the hair is removed.

*Additional treatments may be required in the future as some follicles are the lower lid may be dormant and not growing at the time of the cryotherapy.

COST: $4,533.61 + $486.47 (consult/meds) = $5,020.08
(with a potential 2nd round in the future)

If you'd like to contribute towards Sawyer’s surgery:

🟠 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

SAWYER'S ORIGINAL WELCOME POST:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/8MKZGFGtTdNmP1b8/

10/31/2024

[ AN UPDATE ON CASHEW - 5 WEEKS LATER ]

A quick recap on Cashew. He was lost for 20 days and Mattie's Place was able to locate him in a ravine after he was spotted on someone's deck.

His medical was extensive when he was found and his owner surrendered him to Mattie's Place to manage him moving forward.

Cashew's initial 1 week hospital stay in ICU topped out at 4,907.31. We opted to not do surgery on his broken ankle and try to splint him for 6 weeks with weekly wound management and splint changes. This option was a success and the safest route for Cashew and with his latest set of x-rays his ankle has healed mostly. An additional $2,000 was spent managing the splint, wound care and multiple x-rays.

October 23: Cashew had his neuter and parasite prevention: $700.62

October 28th: Cashew had post-op complications and his sc***um became extremely swollen and he was running a temperature. He's been given antibiotics, pain medication and we've sent a fluid sample from his sc***um to be tested to be sure we have the correct antibiotics in place: $542.95

October 30th: Sawyer was back at TVEH and I received the good news on his ankle but the bad news that his ligament is torn as his ankle is very loosy-goosy. Likely happened with the original trauma. Cashew will need to head into surgery, as soon as his sc***um infection is resolved to have surgical implants to fix the torn ligament so he has full use of that ankle. We could keep trying with conservative methods, but this dog has been through so much since being with his owners that I just want to see this all behind him

So, we have another debt, added on to the previous debt, for Cashew in the amount of: 5,726.86

He is also costing Mattie's Place $35/day for in-home boarding to best manage his medical needs: $245/week. He will be made available for adoption by this weekend in hopes I can find an amazing adopter that can manage his post-op needs. He's ready to start his life with his forever person(s).

He is scheduled for surgery November 12th

He will cost Mattie's Place close to $15,000 for his stay

📷 Amber Remedios

If you'd like to contribute towards Cashew's medical needs:

🟠 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

HIS ORIGINAL WELCOME POST:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/XDtK2AcrHDoyMX1Q/

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Toronto, ON
M1N2V2

Telephone

416.551.7005

Website

http://www.mattiesplace.ca/

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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

[RAINN UPDATE] Rainn continues to have the time of his life at Mattie's Place. He's been hanging out with trainer Courtney from Resilient Canine the past week and we're sticking by the fact that he's the best dog. His herding skills run deep in his DNA. He is a Mini/toy Australian Shepherd, after-all, weighing in (when he reaches his healthy weight) an estimated 18 pounds. He is certainly a dog that wants a job and loves to herd his canine friends when playtime gets super exciting. Rainn likes to be a dog in charge! But he also easily backs off his herding desires when his foster Mom let's him know he's crossing playtime boundaries that do not need to be crossed. He is working through crate training and some separation anxiety (common with the breed). If he wakes up from a nap and realizes his foster Mom isn't home, he'll scream as loud as his little lungs will allow. But it triggers his Mom's 2 way camera and one vocal correction from foster Mama and he always chooses to go back to nap time until she returns home. Good choices Rainn. 2 year old Rainn really is just a great dog that is true to his breed; athletic, playful, charming, social, enthusiastic, loyal and very-very-very smart. For an Adopter that understands the breed, Rainn will be easy-breezy. He's a great little dog that wants to believe he has a job. He's also very kind and easy to love. The situation he joined Mattie's Place from was simply a rescue and foster not understanding the breed and breed needs and instead of harnessing his DNA and working with it, they opted to muzzle and prong him. He is free of those tools with Mattie's Place though his body is still healing from the ramifications of those choices. Rainn holds no grudges towards humans and I'm so proud of him! With thanks to Courtney (Resilient Canine) and Amber ( Canadian Canine Crew) for helping Mattie's Place out with Rainn's journey the past couple weeks so we could assess and understand who Rainn is. ASSESSM

Raiin & Ruby

[RAINN IS A FLIRTY BOY] Rainn is showing some extra lovin' vibes for Ruby, also a Mattie's Place dog (available for adoption). Ruby doesn't understand Rainn's vibe. 😅 Never give up Rainn! ADOPT RUBY ($99 ADOPTION FEE) www.mattiesplace.ca/adopt

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Each morning I review the Mattie’s Place intake form for Ontario dogs needing rescue placement. I have over 1,000 owner surrender requests for 2024 so far. We are in a dog overpopulation crisis in Ontario and across Canada.

PUPPY NINA

[NINA’S HIDDEN TALENT] She has mastered fly catching 🪰 🤣 Highly adoptable sweetie pie: 🟠 LEARN MORE: www.petfinder.com/dog/nina-71271806/on/scarborough/matties-place-on571