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Hamilton/Burlington SPCA


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The Hamilton/Burlington Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is a registered charitable, not-for-profit organization devoted to the prevention of cruelty to animals. We are not a government organization. As a result, we rely strongly on public and corporate donations, legacies, and fundraising campaigns to achieve our goal: to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves.

We operate a “no-kill” shelter, meaning no animal is ever euthanized because we don’t have enough space.

We offer a wide range of programs and services, including animal adoptions, a low-cost spay and neuter program, child and youth education, dog obedience classes, pet bereavement counselling, and a trap, neuter and return program to help control the feral cat population. Our Companion Animal Hospital provides the necessary medical care for the abandoned, abused and surrendered animals in our care—in 2010 we performed more than 2000 surgeries.


Mailing Address:
245 Dartnall Road
Hamilton, Ontario L8W 3V9

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Feral Cat TNR Program
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High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter
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Rescue Groups
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Foster Care
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Comprehensive Adoption Programs
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Pet Retention
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Medical and Behavior Programs
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Public Relations/Community Involvement
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Volunteers
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Proactive Redemptions
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A Compassionate Director
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1. Feral Cat TNR Program

Many communities are embracing Trap, Neuter, Release programs (TNR) to improve animal welfare, reduce death rates, and meet obligations to public welfare.


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2. High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter

Low cost, high volume spay/neuter will quickly lead to fewer animals entering the shelter system, allowing more resources to be allocated toward saving lives.


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3. Rescue Groups

An adoption or transfer to a rescue group frees up scarce cage and kennel space, reduces expenses for feeding, cleaning, killing, and improves a community's rate of lifesaving. In an environment of millions of dogs and cats killed in shelters annually, rare is the circumstance in which a rescue group should be denied an animal.


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4. Foster Care

Volunteer foster care is crucial to No Kill. Without it, saving lives is compromised. It is a low cost, and often no cost, way of increasing a shelter's capacity, improving public relations, increasing a shelter's public image, rehabilitating sick and injured or behaviorally challenged animals, and saving lives.


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5. Comprehensive Adoption Programs

Adoptions are vital to an agency's lifesaving mission. The quantity and quality of shelter adoptions is in shelter management's hands, making lifesaving a direct function of shelter policies and practice. In fact, studies show people get their animals from shelters only 20% of the time. If shelters better promoted their animals and had adoption programs responsive to the needs of the community, including public access hours for working people, offsite adoptions, adoption incentives, and effective marketing, they could increase the number of homes available and replace killing with adoptions. Contrary to conventional wisdom, shelters can adopt their way out of killing.


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6. Pet Retention

While some of the reasons animals are surrendered to shelters are unavoidable, others can be prevented-but only if shelters are willing to work with people to help them solve their problems. Saving animals requires communities to develop innovative strategies for keeping people and their companion animals together. And the more a community sees its shelters as a place to turn for advice and assistance, the easier this job will be.


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7. Medical and Behavior Programs

In order to meet its commitment to a lifesaving guarantee for all savable animals, shelters need to keep animals happy and healthy and keep animals moving through the system. To do this, shelters must put in place comprehensive vaccination, handling, cleaning, socialization, and care policies before animals get sick and rehabilitative efforts for those who come in sick, injured, unweaned, or traumatized.


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8. Public Relations/Community Involvement

Increasing adoptions, maximizing donations, recruiting volunteers and partnering with community agencies comes down to one thing: increasing the shelter's exposure. And that means consistent marketing and public relations. Public relations and marketing are the foundation of all a shelter's activities and their success. To do all these things well, the shelter must be in the public eye.


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9. Volunteers

Volunteers are a dedicated "army of compassion" and the backbone of a successful No Kill effort. There is never enough staff, never enough dollars to hire more staff, and always more needs than paid human resources. That is where volunteers come in and make the difference between success and failure and, for the animals, life and death.


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10. Proactive Redemptions

One of the most overlooked areas for reducing killing in animal control shelters are lost animal reclaims. Sadly, besides having pet owners fill out a lost pet report, very little effort is made in this area of shelter operations. This is unfortunate because doing so-primarily shifting from passive to a more proactive approach-has proven to have a significant impact on lifesaving and allow shelters to return a large percentage of lost animals to their families.


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11. A Compassionate Director

The final element of the No Kill equation is the most important of all, without which all other elements are thwarted-a hard working, compassionate animal control or shelter director not content to regurgitate tired cliches or hide behind the myth of "too many animals, not enough homes." Unfortunately, this one is also oftentimes the hardest one to demand and find.


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Hi We had to put our dog Pepsi to sleep 6 months ago. Looking for a dog to give him or her a forever home. Thankyou
posted by [email protected], on 2021-07-25 04:09:33
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Hi my name is brandy I moved here 6yrs ago there is a stud feral cat and it's been years of winters he's getting old now.i estimate him to be 9_10 yrs. The last year I have been feeding him as he is in bad shape.stud tail and all he is very sweet and I would love to keep him.however I do have 2of his daughters lol ironically.they are fixed and inside. As he needs to be neutered and I expect ear mites he needs a makeover and some treatment before I can bring him inside my home.i would love someone to help me help this poor guy winter is coming I don't want him outside this year as he is getting on in Age.i have named him Whitey as he is pure white. I would like to arrange something for him to be seen and save another precious life. Like I said he's getting old I don't think he can do another winter.
posted by BrandyAKozmik, on 2016-08-30 15:17:12
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lost my dog on the 22dec had kidney disease looking to adopt an older dog because we are 74yrs. old asap
posted by MargaretMcgrath, on 2014-12-31 09:58:45
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We have a 5 year old beautiful cat that needs a home bad declawed and neutered we can't keep him any longer my baby girl has allergies would love to find a home for him he is gorgeous long hair grey and white looks like Jerry off tom and jerry but longer hair.
posted by PamelaWilson, on 2015-12-18 13:45:39
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looking to get my 7 month old pup vaccines and possibly spayed, but am on ODSP
posted by DarVautour, on 2015-03-25 08:57:26
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