SPCA calls on Montrealers to adopt, foster & donate as shelter reaches full capacity
Posted January 7, 2025 7:27 pm.
Last Updated January 7, 2025 10:36 pm.
Last year, the Montreal SPCA was able to care for over 13,000 animals like Maya the cat.
Maya was rescued after one of her family members had to be placed in a residence — but the grey feline still awaits to find her fur-ever home, and so do the rest of her friends in the animal shelter.
The SPCA calling on Montrealers to adopt, foster, or donate as the shelter is now at full capacity — they need room to help more animals like Maya.
“Currently all of our cages are full,” said Laurence Massé, Executive Director, Montreal SPCA. “Which is quite unusual right now.”
“Usually we see a downtime around this period of the year.”
The SPCA said that they normally see a peak in surrenders around Moving Day which takes place on July 1 -– but in 2024, it was any day.
A record year they said helping more animals than in their last five years — not seeing any downtime, and it’s projected to continue.
“We noticed is that behind every surrender there’s a financial reason,” explained Massé. “And unfortunately that happened all year long.”
“All of our cages are full and we need to be creative with our space,” said the executive director. “There’s animals in our offices, there’s animals almost everywhere.”
Currently, the shelter has 200 -– and over 500 animals are with foster families.
Fostering is one of many ways to help – the shelter covers those expenses and it’s a way to see if a new addition to your family fits with your lifestyle while helping an animal in need.
“We have plenty of animals, we have kittens we have small animals,” said Massé. “We have all types of profiles.”
Adopting and donating are also big ways Montrealers and beyond can help.
The SPCA explained that 70 per cent of their revenue come from donations.
As for Maya, her purring indicated to CityNews that while she loves the SPCA team she is looking forward to finding her new fur-ever home to help make room for more animals in need.
No appointment is needed to visit the SPCA, their opening hours are on their website.
