Saving Grace Animal Rescue in Alix, Alberta is struggling to cope with a large influx of animals needing care due to the recent extreme cold. The rescue has taken in 38 animals in just 48 hours, and sadly found around a dozen dogs who had already perished from the freezing temperatures. They are calling on the public for donations and support to help them care for the animals.
The recent stretch of frigid temperatures hitting Alberta is making it difficult for not only people to stay warm, but animals as well.
“We have had non-stop calls,” says Erin Deems, executive director of Saving Grace Animal Rescue. “We’ve been on the road all day, every day … and it’s not slowing down.”The rescue, based in Alix, took in 38 animals from central Alberta in 48 hours once the temperatures dropped, including 12 cats from farm properties. Unfortunately, the rescue also found about a dozen dogs that had already died from the cold.“That’s one of the heartbreaking things during these temperatures,” Deems says.
Deems says many of the rescues had to be hospitalized over the weekend but have since been released and are starting to warm up. She says the rescue doesn’t have the capacity to care for the nearly 40 animals now staying there and will be looking to adopt them out once they are healthy enough and following a two-week quarantine period.The influx of animals is putting a strain on the rescue, which says it had no option but to take the animals in despite not having space.
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