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Media :: Niagara Falls Humane Society 6025 Chippawa Parkway Niagara Falls, Ontario map and directions 905-356-4404 increasingly contact info Home Adoptions Search Dogs Cats Seaway Mall AC Small Animals Adopted Animals Pets in Need Success Stories Prices Preparing toPreferGet Involved How can you help? Volunteering Foster Program Friends of NFHSMuzzle& Kennel Sponsorship Financial DonationsSupplies& Supply Donations Wedding Favours Wishlist General Info For Seniors For Kids Dog Boarding Recommended Reading Easy Links Blog Dog Licence Lost and Found Stray Animals Cuteness Overload News Media Events Links Contact Us Contact Info Map & Directions Media Pages 1 of 88next » LEAN ON MEPublished: Apr 14 2018Does anyone else get the feeling that whenever you tell someone anything well-nigh your animal, they do the opposite? Example one. “My cat doesn´t really like to cuddle.” Cat then proceeds to climb upon the guest, purring, throne butting, and full on snuggling. Example two. You´re out to dinner at a family members house and you bring the dog. “He doesn´t really beg at the table.” You tell your family. HA! Look then considering he has found the weakest link at the table and is currently working his magic and unconfined big, puppy dog vision to get a slice of meat. Little do you know, it wasn´t the first time. My favourite is when it come lanugo to the walk. I don´t know if you´ve overly had a new person walk your dog and told them, “Just be careful, sometimes he pulls on the leash.” Would you like to bet that was the same person your dog walked perfectly for? I swear their main focus is to prove us wrong in as many ways as they can. Through contradictions and, if you´re a cat owner, mood changes. When I was growing up we had a cat that was, admittedly, incredibly grumpy. But not with us. He would cuddle, cry for attention, beg and plead to be picked up, trickle onto your lap while you were reading considering he couldn´t withstand to be ignored. If it got him sustentation he was there. He wasn´t a shy cat and wouldn´t run yonder when new people came in. He just automatically didn´t like them. One second he would be purring up a storm then swatting the newcomers if they went near him. However the dislike was increasingly so if he could see you. New people would tideway him from overdue to requite his throne a scratch and he would love it. Until he turned virtually and saw who it was. He didn´t love it so much without that. But maybe that mismatch he had with others was considering he knew who his family was and how much we loved him. He knew where his safety zones were and who would protect him. Don´t forget! April 27th is Trivia Night! Bring your team out for a night of fun! This week´s post written by Katarina Rind For information on all animals up for adoption, please visit the Niagara Falls Humane Society´s main website: www.nfhs.caLink to Article: http://www.niagarabuzz.ca/2018/04/14/pets/lean-on-me-24/ LEAN ON MEPublished: Apr 08 2018Everyday life here at the shelter can be tough , many animals coming in with various levels of superintendency needed from vital shots and deworming to major life saving surgeries and months of overdue the scenes treatment.Withouttalking to a colleague last week and having a frustrating day where is seemed people just didn´t understand how much effort gets put into these animals and that for many of us it´s a passion and a desire to help the unwanted and neglected animals thrive and proceeds trust and ultimately be prepared for a forever home. Sometimes the muzzle gets messy , cats love to play I would much rather see a cat flinging a toy and making a bit of a mess than cowering in a corner in what looks like a untouched cage. There are stages for many and it takes time and that is what we are here for, I want to try and unshut up the underpass between the muzzle and the negative undertone with it, for them it´s not just a muzzle it´s a unscratched space to heal and recover whether it´s a physical injury or emotional, and for many this is a much largest option than what could have happened, I am thankful to have been worldly-wise to work with them. A new quote I found while expressing my concerns and trying to get increasingly people to understand - It´s well-nigh caring ABOUT them not just for THEM. These animals all have personalities, variegated needs and wants just like a kid. It´s up to us to try our weightier to do right by them while they are in our superintendency and it´s something I want everyone to think of considering we can all do a little increasingly to make things largest for everyone.Vitalneeds should unchangingly be met but there is so much room for more! I love giving the kitties catnip or making frozen peanut butter Kong´s for the dogs. Little extras make my day largest considering they are happy and that is my job, some days are largest than others but I am grateful that these animals get a second endangerment and that I can get to know them and help them find their final installment in a new home. We unchangingly have many animals up for adoption and we need a variety of items to help us alimony them happy and healthy. This is a unconfined reference to specific items we use daily and could use a stock pile of at any given time! There is no such thing as too many toys or goodies. Enrichment is key to a happy healthy unprepossessing and it brings them unconfined joy! Cat supplies - mice toys, tinsel balls, scratching posts/cat houses (several sizes and styles) small beds, hanging/string toys, catnip (dried /spray or bubbles) Dry non colored cat/kitten supplies and any kind of canned food. * We are very low on cat toys and scratch pads and could use increasingly as soon as possible. Dog supplies -Large Kong´s , leashes and martingale collars of various sizes , peanut butter(must have no xylitol) Heavy duty chew toys like kong or similar , soccer/basket balls , agility equipment of any kind for our outdoor dog pens , kuranda beds and pill pockets. Miscellaneous items used daily- liquid laundry soap, dryer sheets and bleach, scented cleaning supplies for lobby/ Windex, Kleenex, pens/permanent markers. Every little bit helps us make the animals finger better, it´s well-nigh them and what they need, it´s so important that they are a priority. They depend on us and we need to be there for them and do our weightier to requite them what they need to heal and succeed. If you are wanting to help in anyway or looking to adopt, please visit our website for profiles and increasingly information www.nfhs.ca If you are unable to donate , prefer or volunteer , I encourage you to please share this vendible to help get the animals the supplies they need and help those who are right by their side every step until they are ready to leave. Our polity is so important to us and every little bit helps get the animals what they need and deserve. This week´s post written by by Alexis BennettLink to Article: http://www.niagarabuzz.ca/2018/04/08/pets/lean-on-me-23/ LEAN ON MEPublished: Mar 31 2018If you momentum into scrutinizingly any zone of the city, there is construction. New homes are stuff build. Old homes are stuff renovated. New families are stuff started. Roads are stuff expanded for the influx of traffic in developing areas. We are expanding! If you´ve been by the shelter lately, you would have seen the construction in our front yard. New paths are stuff built, gates put up, fences to contain dogs in the new areas. It´s all happening as the snow melts yonder and spring begins to unpack her tons to stay for a while. Getting outside into the fresh air is invigorating. It shakes off the claustrophobia that winter seems to bring each year. It renews us and makes us finger like taking on a new project, or a new pet. In the next few weeks, we will be getting many new dogs at the shelter from other areas. We will love to see you stop by and try to find yourself a dog for their Forever Homes. Often, our defended dog walker Linda will be worldly-wise to provide very good insight into each dog. So, when you stop by, take a moment to yack with her and to thank her for her unrelenting dedication to our dogs. Bernadette Peters (main picture) weighs 68 lbs. She will need a home with no other animals. She loves to play and would like a forever home that will requite her lots of exercise and love! Linda observes: I love to spend time with this spunky girl!!! She is so much fun to play with in the pen, chasing lanugo toys as I throw them. Bernadette is a nice looking dog with her caramel stratify and inquisitive eyes. She is very smart so you have to stay on top of her, or she will take over.Withoutlots of exercise she is sitting, coming and doing some heeling for me now. She can be jumpy so obedience classes would be platonic to requite her a new outlook on life. She just needs a single-minded owner who would work with her, requite her lots of exercise and love too. Dog Walker Linda enjoyed spending time with Jimmy and has this to share: Jimmy is flipside one of those dogs you fall so tightly for! I just love this charmer with his good looks and peaceable personality. I thoroughly enjoy all the times I spend with him, he comes, downs and sits for me and will plane heel when he´s in the mood. He takes treats very nicely from me, doesn´t grab them anymore. I´ve worked with him over that. With his gorgeous woebegone stratify and playful ways you´d never know how old he is. I´m surprised he is still at the shelter with all he has going for him! Jimmy weighs 55 lbs. Jimmy is very loving and upper energy, he has a fun loving vein and loves to talk to you through his muzzle but once he´s out his tail is wagging and he´s ready to go. Jimmy is quite strong and is suggested to not go home with a family who has small children he will grab supplies out of your hands and is quite rough with play we finger like he would be weightier suited for a home with children over 10; he is jumpy and sometimes doesn´t realize that he is a big boy. He is full of personality and love - his smile is infectious. Come out and meet Jimmy if you think he might be the right fit for you. A $150 adoption fee applies for Jimmy. A mini Panther who is an wool Kitten at heart. Billy is energetic and very playful while stuff very easy to handle and just loves his lap time and pets.Billy would be largest suited stuff the only cat of the household and would make an easy transition to home with no other cats. Denim came to the shelter as an injured stray without she was hit by a car and found under someone´s BBQ and fence. She was severely injured and rushed to the vets where she was evaluated to have multiple wrenched wreck and fractures. She has since had wide-stretching life saving surgery which forfeit the shelter over $2000 to repair her wrenched femurs and have a rod inserted so she could walk then withal with weeks of medication and unvarying care.This little warrior is looking for a forever home that will take superintendency of her. She will need to be the only cat in her new home as she does not want to share her space with any other felines and she gets very upset. She is extremely friendly and has the spunk and energy and a big personality packed into a small frame. The shelter is looking for funds to help imbricate the forfeit of her surgery which was over $2000 , and we need to alimony up our efforts to save the animals like Denim who need a second endangerment at life without rememberable so much. Please contact the shelter if you are interested in donating to Denim´s superintendency and the superintendency for the many animals who require these life saving efforts, we couldn´t do it without the help from our community. Click this link for an vendible well-nigh Denim.-https://www.niagarathisweek.com/opinion-story/8086147-tiny-warrior-has-endured-a-lot/ Hashbrown is a mellifluous lady who has a big personality. She likes sustentation on her own terms but a quick way to yoke is through food, she can´t resist! Hashbrown will need an sultana only home and she will need to be the only cat. Honeydew is a sweet girl who loves chin rubs. She prefers if you take a wifely tideway so she can get to know you, she loves her treats and is unchangingly snuggled in her bed. This week I want to rencontre all of our readers. I think growing individually and as a polity is very important. I want to rencontre each of you to do something new, something that you´ve unchangingly wanted to do but haven´t for whatever reason. Maybe fear has limited you. Maybe uncertainty stops you from taking that first step into that passion project you´ve been dying to start.Rencontreyourself to just do it. Embrace it and see what transpiration is has on you.When we are authentic, expressing our warmth and light in all directions, we rationalization things to grow. Share this story with others and if there´s something that has stuck out and impacted you, we want to hear well-nigh it. When we are authentic, expressing our warmth and light in all directions, we rationalization things to grow. We now have a unconfined new way you can connect with NFHS. See our adoptions, report cruelty, or connect with local shops support NFHS. You can find our app in the Apple Store or on Google Play. Help the animals at the shelter by sponsoring aMuzzle-$25/mo or Kennel- $50/mo. Thank you to our current sponsors! For increasingly information and hours of operation please visit the website at: www.nfhs.ca This week´s post written by Chris Dalton Link to Article: http://www.niagarabuzz.ca/2018/03/31/pets/lean-on-me-22/ LEAN ON ME – Volunteering at For the Love of CatsPublished: Mar 16 2018“The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it” - Mother Teresa Why wilt a volunteer? To finger unconfined by doing a good thing, contributing to an important rationalization and to spend time with like-minded people. The job of a volunteer at the cat adoption part-way is working with cats that are normally strays, some who have had very little or no human interactions. They come in frightened, possibly wrestling or aggressive, and some show no emotion at all. So in saying that, TRUST has to happen, and to do that we do our weightier to spend as much time with them as we can. During that interaction we see changes in their personalities and behaviours and we know that showing them love, time and patience goes a long way in helping them to find a forever home. It is very rewarding and enjoyable to find the right family that matches with the right cat. The saying is, It is not the people that pick the unprepossessing (cat) but the unprepossessing (cat) that picks the people. (Below, cats lounging at For the Love of Cats) It moreover does wonders for us too. It provides us with emotional, physical and mental wellbeing. There is a yoke that happens between helping them and us, they help us by reducing stress and some other emotions which help in stuff wifely and relaxed in our daily life. It is a win-win situation. It moreover gives us professional and life experiences for future endeavours. Stating on a resume that you are a volunteer gives future employers knowledge well-nigh you. It shows teamwork, respect of others through liaison and work ethics. “Volunteers don´t get paid not considering they´re worthless, but considering they´re priceless” - Sherry Anderson If you are interested in stuff a volunteer, please pop in either For The Love Of Cats, the Shelter or go to our website, www.nfhs.ca. And finally, there is an invitation for 20 people, but please no kids, to join us in an event tabbed Nap for Cats, April 20, 2018, 6 p.m till April 21, 2018. 9 a.m at For The Love Of Cats location. Contact us at 905-356-4409 for increasingly information, or trammels us out on facebook. Some of the cats misogynist at For The Love of Cats Now…Link to Article: http://www.niagarabuzz.ca/2018/03/16/pets/lean-on-me-volunteering-at-for-the-love-of-cats/ Lean on ME- Did yo know this well-nigh woebegone cats?Published: Jan 27 2018Link to Article: http://www.niagarabuzz.ca/2018/01/27/pets/lean-on-me-did-you-know-this-about-black-cats/ StaffSite content copyright © 2006 - 2018 Niagara Falls Humane Society. Reprinting or copying by permission of The Niagara Falls Humane Society only. All rights reserved. Web Design 2008 VRB Internet Solutions Ltd. and its licensors