dog – NEWSMAGRENFREW

There is no shortage of heroes in society, and they come from a variety of different places, different occupations, and different backgrounds.

Today I’d like to highlight the people who volunteer their time towards animal rescue operations here and elsewhere. Locally, that would be the Ottawa Valley Rescue. Included in that are the people who take on the role of fosters for animals in the process of transitioning to what is hoped to be a permanent home.

Not every animal involved with this organization arrived there as a result of neglect or abuse. That said, it’s shockingly troubling to learn just how many of them are from a challenging background like this. Equally troubling is the total attitude of disregard that many people have for domestic animals, and it’s the Rescue that has taken on the responsibility for the rehabilitation of the animal where the goal is a permanent and loving home.

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There’s a bit of a problem over at St. Joseph’s High School.

Nothing as dramatic as protestors and counter-protestors separated by police because some kid had his way with school staff over gender-specific washrooms.

No, this is bigger shit than that.

This is about dogs going toidy all over the soccer pitch because people are letting their pets run wild in there, that enclosed space the school has recently created as part of its major overhaul and new construction project.

Principal Pamela Dickerson said in a community letter that people were using the field “as a dog park” without bothering to stop and pick up any of the little treasures that Sparky leaves behind when he plays with his pals or is out for his regular sniff and squat routine.

Those people I described in my Christmas messages? The ones who are caring and decent and thoughtful at their core? Well, it’s tough for them to walk around like that all the time without reverting to their other selves, the careless, lazy and thoughtless ones, perhaps the ones they show by default most every day.

So much for Christmas spirit.

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OTTAWA VALLEY RESCUE

DOGS CRAPPING WHERE JAGUARS ROAM