Rescue operation assists more than 100 abandoned animals
It’s a new beginning for more than 100 dogs and cats rescued from the Lac La Ronge tri-communities over the weekend.
On Jan. 7, Saving Grace Animal Sanctuary Canada and other rescue groups arrived at the Lac La Ronge Indian Band’s Jonas Roberts Memorial Community Centre, ready to get to work. Erin Deems, of Saving Grace, said all the animals were taken to Alberta where they’ll be fixed, dewormed, vaccinated and microchipped in the coming days.
“Over the course of the last month, there’s just been a greater need with the weather and whatnot to do larger pulls like this,” Deems said. “We have a really great group called the Alberta Spay and Neuter Task Force, which does spay and neuter clinics at First Nations communities… it just seems to be a population-control issue, and that’s why we’re more needed.”
The rescue was organized with the help of volunteers from La Ronge’s Northern Animal Rescue Humane Society, which founding member Joanne Dickson said took in close to 500 animals last year. With no facility and only a limited number of foster homes, she said the organization struggles to keep up with the high demand for their services. The rescue on the weekend was done with the support of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band, Dickson said.