City's plan to refuse unwanted animals hooted down
Feb. 6
Under a city budget proposal, animal shelters would stop accepting animals whose owners no longer want to care for them, and animal services officers would stop responding to calls for sick and injured wild animals.
A cut to this service impacts every citizen of Toronto, whether it's someone who has to give up a pet, deal with a stray or dead animal dumped by an owner with no other option, or deal with injured wildlife.
In addition to regular donations of food to the local shelter, I pay a licensing fee to the city every year on a cat adopted from Toronto Animal Services. I'm starting to wonder where that money goes. Should I stop paying the licensing fee and add that amount to my donations to the Toronto Humane Society and the Toronto Wildlife Centre?
I fail to understand how city officials think maintaining councillors' budgets at current levels, and spending $505,000 to expand Nuit Blanche and $932,000 to install a stingray exhibit at the zoo, can take precedence over caring for living things in our city.
Shame, shame, shame.
Kim Mathieson, Toronto
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