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Pet abandonments in Quebec used to spike around Canada Day; now they’re year-round
- Between January and April 2025, the Montreal SPCA saw a total of 1,212 animals surrendered, marking a 26 percent rise compared to the same timeframe in 2024.
- This rise follows increased economic struggles and persistent no-pet lease clauses, while Québec solidaire failed to pass related legislation in 2023.
- SPCA capacity exceeds 110 percent for cats and dogs, with financial hardship, difficulty finding housing, and landlord restrictions cited as main surrender causes.
- Lawyer John-Nicolas Morello said the SPCA launched a court challenge against no-pet lease rules and his group created a manual to aid tenant-landlord pet discussions.
- Animal abandonments shifted from July spikes to year-round occurrences, reflecting ongoing housing challenges and inflation pressures affecting pet owners.
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Pet abandonments in Quebec used to spike around Canada Day; now they're year-round
MONTREAL — Canada Day has traditionally been synonymous in Montreal with moving day: piles of junk on street corners, sweaty bodies carrying couches up and down the city's winding staircases — and a spike in abandoned animals at shelters.
MONTREAL — The Montreal SPCA no longer sees a sharp increase in animal abandonment around July 1, but it is not because people stopped abandoning their animals before moving. The shelter indicates that, compared to previous years, fewer residential leases end at the end of June. Thus, instead of abandoning their animals at once, the Montrealers abandon them all year round. And the number of abandoned animals is on the rise, a trend that Laurence…
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