P.E.I. Humane Society launches fundraising push to help finish new shelter's key facilities

Thinh Nguyen · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 27, 2025 5:00 PM EDT | Last Updated: June 27

The P.E.I. Humane Society's caller structure is astir complete, but with a fewer cardinal features inactive unfinished, the enactment is making 1 past fundraising propulsion to fto it afloat equip the space.

The upgraded installation connected Sherwood Road successful Charlottetown has been successful the works for the past decade. The existent structure astatine the aforesaid tract is 7,400 quadrate feet, portion the caller 1 measures implicit 18,000.

One of the major features to beryllium added is a surgical suite, which the nine says volition importantly chopped down connected veterinary costs.

Ashley Travis, the humane society's improvement and communications co-ordinator, said the nine tin walk up to $200,000 a twelvemonth connected surgical procedures.

"Over fractional the animals that travel into the structure aren't spayed oregon neutered... Vaccines, spay, neuter, amputations, things similar that, they each outgo money, and we're sending those retired of location close now," Travis told CBC's Island Morning.

"In the caller facility, we'll beryllium really sending them down the hall. So it's going to marque things a batch faster and a batch cheaper."

She said the structure has a unit veterinarian who volition beryllium capable to execute those procedures on-site. But to equip the suite, the nine needs about  $100,000.

"We're virtually starting from scratch. We request everything from centrifuges to peculiar surgical lights to, you know, a dental facility."

The nine is moving a fundraising run called Pawsport to Paradise, wherever radical tin bargain tickets for a accidental to triumph abrogation prizes. Tickets outgo $150, and lone 1,000 volition beryllium sold. More accusation is disposable connected the society's website.

New 'fear-free' canine kennels

Part of the wealth raised volition spell toward caller canine kennels. Travis said the existent kennels, successful usage since the structure was built much than 30 years ago, are outdated compared to the current humane standards successful Canada.

When designing the caller shelter, the nine worked with a supplier to physique kennels that conscionable the "fear-free plan standard" present recognized astir the world, she said.

"We tin overgarment the walls successful a soothing colour. We tin take lighting that reduces anxiety. But if the kennels themselves, wherever the animals are virtually living, don't conscionable that standard, past it throws each the different enactment retired the window," Travis said.

She added that determination has been a hold successful getting the kennels, truthful unit volition apt determination into the caller gathering aboriginal this summer, but the dogs volition stay astatine the aged installation until the kennels are installed.

The nine doesn't person a confirmed expansive opening day yet. Travis said they're aiming for precocious summer. The existent absorption is getting the gathering wired for net and phones, and installing different instrumentality and furnishings.

Public canine parkland thought dropped 

Initially, the caller installation was going to see a nationalist canine park, but Travis said that program has changed.

"It ended up conscionable being a small excessively overmuch for our squad to manage. And truthful what we're doing is, erstwhile the abstraction is hydroseeded and everything starts to grow, past we volition enactment successful a backstage canine parkland for our use."

As for the archetypal building, Travis said the nine is exploring options to crook it into a societal endeavor site that could assistance make income to enactment the structure successful the future.