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General News
Available DOGS
April 21, 2024 | 
Author These are the dogs currently looking for their new and permanent homes. Please CONTACT US (by PHONE or EMAIL) for the latest up-to-date information.
NOTE: Don’t see your favourite animal here? Check Adoptions PENDING.
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Available CATS..
All these cats came to Home Again as abandoned strays. They are all up to date with their vaccinations and have all been spayed or neutered.
The adoption fees:
Cats $150.
Kittens $200
(cats are more than 1 year old)
For INQUIRIES, please » CALL us, or use EMAIL.
NOTE: Don’t see your favourite animal here? Check Adoptions PENDING.
Bake Sale March 23, 2024
Volunteers raised over $1900 selling baked goods and gently used pet accessories at the Bancroft Village Playhouse.
All money goes to the animals because there are no salaries paid and no shelter to pay for.
Pets are fostered in volunteers’ homes until they are adopted.
Wagging tails are gratitude enough for volunteers. The huge support of the Bancroft community is icing on the cake.
Thank you Bancroft!
Karina Vega and Christine Walker manned the pet accessories booth.
Some available-for-adoption Great Pyrenees puppies delighted shoppers with free kisses.
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TOP NEWS..
Available KITTENS..
Here are our youngest cats..
The adoption fee for kittens is $200 which includes spay/neuter when they are old enough.
(kittens are less than 1 year old)
NOTE: Don’t see your favourite animal here? Check Adoptions PENDING.
A Fostering VIDEO Message
Drivers WANTED
Help stop the birth of unwanted kittens, by spay/neutering your cats. Home Again animal rescue does this and they need your help to get their cats to Trenton for spay/neuter surgery.
You drive a carload of cats to Trenton, wait for their surgeries, and return to Bancroft with them the same day. Gasoline is reimbursed.
This is vitally important work: a pair of cats will produce 11 million kittens in nine years!
Please.. Contact Us.
Save Sick Sally
Sally is one of dozens of cats fed by a good Samaritan who had insufficient funds for veterinary care for so many cats.
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Sally, who is a black-and-white 12-month-old kitten, got pregnant and had trouble delivering her kittens so Home Again rushed her to an emergency veterinary clinic out of town. The four kittens she delivered all died. She is anemic, requires bloodwork, x-rays, pain medication and, when she recovers, she needs spay surgery. The vet estimates this work at $1,900, some of which has already been done.
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When she returned to her foster home after spending two nights at the clinic, she was licked and groomed by Callie, a bigger grey and white cat thought to be Sally’s mother. Callie is shown here comforting Sally during her hard delivery followed by the death of her babies.
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Callie had delivered a litter of kittens two weeks ago, all healthy and nursing. Sally got right in bed with her mother’s kittens and groomed them and wanted to nurse them, which was disallowed because Sally takes pain medicine which could come out in her milk. Sally is sweet and loving towards people — obviously her owner loved her very much but he is no longer able to care for cats.
Home Again requests donations to save sweet Sally. All donors will be named on this page. Because Home Again is a registered charity, donations of $20 or more receive a tax slip to reduce your 2022 taxable income.
Press the yellow button on the left side of our first page to make your donation using a credit card, Pay Pal, or eTransfer (eTransfer is preferred). Under comments, say “Save Sally”.
Pet Valu in Bancroft will accept envelopes addressed to Home Again that contain cash or a cheque. Include your municipal address so we can mail you a tax receipt.
Home Again gratefully thanks these donors:
Mary Freeman, Highland Grove
Clarice Smith, Bancroft
Barbara Allport, Bancroft
Susan Robinson-Rutherford, Bancroft
Ravninder Seyan, Dartmouth, Ontario
Anonymous in Maynooth
Joan Phillips, Bancroft
Sheryle Lackey, Waterloo
Bev McConnell, Eldorado
Rosemary Dixon, McArthur’s Mills
Melissa Newton, Bancroft
Angela Brethour, Bancroft
Shirley Heiss, Bancroft
Home Again has reached its goal and Sally will be saved. Thank you dear Friends.
Trap-Neuter-Return solves society’s problems..
Trap-Neuter-Return solves society’s problems of:
- Yowling cats who fight and compete for mates
- Noxious smell of un-neutered male urine (spraying)
- Unwanted kittens
- Over-population of feral cats
- Roaming intact cats looking for mates
First 7 cats
Feral cats are free-roaming cats that may have been domestic pets or descended from feral cats that chose a life outside. They will live a healthier, happier life if their colony is controlled. They selected their homes and they want to live there with their family. Best solution for them and people is to spay/neuter them and return them to the homes and families they love. You can help by making styrofoam shelters and providing food twice a day. No need to take them inside — it is not recommended to handle a feral cat. They will help you by keeping the area rodent-free, and disallowing new cats who are not fixed, so their numbers will not increase. Feral cats who are managed by their caretakers do not roam and cause society complaints. They are healthier because they are neutered/spayed and well fed, which reduces parasites and disease. To be a feral cat caretaker, with the help of Home Again animal rescue, call 613-334-8471. You may have a feral cat or two on your property and you don’t want them multiplying!
Buster
Here is Buster, showing his left ear tipped after neuter surgery — the 1/2-inch tip of his left ear was cut off under anesthetic. This proves that he was fixed and there is no need to capture him again for neutering. Also pictured here is a drop off at the Toronto Humane Society of two feral cats in their covered traps. Covering them calms them. The Toronto Humane Society, funded entirely by donations, no tax dollars, fixes feral cats for free, if one has a TNR certificate.
CATS FOR SENIORS
Home Again expands its services to include one for seniors who want the companionship of a cat but want to ensure the cat will have a home if the cat outlives the senior person.
The senior pays no adoption fee because he/she would take a Home Again cat that would otherwise not be adopted because of the cat’s age or unsocial nature.
The senior would pay for the cat’s food, litter and veterinary care, for life. If the senior passes away before the cat, Home Again brings the cat back into the program available for the next senior.
This program would allow Home Again to save so many cats that need to be re-homed because their owner died or went into a nursing home and the cat is used to a quiet home without any other pets. Adult cats are difficult to re-home because they like what they are accustomed to. If a cat lives without other cats, they strongly object to re-homing into a house with cats.
All Home Again fosters have other cats, so soloist cats cannot be fostered by Home Again. This program is a winner for many needy cats, seniors, and the people who must help seniors settle their affairs.
Call Home Again’s cat manager Clarice Smith, 613-202-2258 if you need a cat to love or you need to re-home a senior cat into a like-home.
Happy Tales: Peri
Joan Phillips moved to Bancroft five years ago and joined Home Again animal welfare charity
as a volunteer shortly after.
She fosters kittens, two of whom she adopted — Miss Kitty is shown here, while Ocean hides from the camera.
She also adopted Peri, a Papillion who “is the best pet I ever had,” says Joan.
Joan attends all Home Again fund raising events with Peri trotting beside her, unleashed and very obedient. They have been at Home Again golf tournaments, fashion shows, bazaars, and in Christmas parades.
Peri is a great ambassador for Home Again and welcomes the many kittens passing through his home on their way to a forever home.
Joan says,
“animals have been with me through good times and bad. They reward me every day with their trust and love. Volunteering with Home Again is more rewarding than you can imagine.”
Home Again participates in a Trap-Neuter-Return program for cats
In March 2015 Home Again financed a Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) program for feral cats.
One un-spayed female cat and one un-neutered male cat and their offspring can result in 420,000 kittens in 7 years. A population explosion is not good for the Bancroft area where there are already too many unwanted cats.
So Home Again spent a lot of money and many caring people devoted their time to live trapping the cats who were then vaccinated and spayed/neutered.
They recuperated at a Home Again volunteer’s home, and released where they were found. The program reduces the colony’s size humanely while allowing the cats to live the life they want, the life they were born into.
Home Again Organization Expands
Since there is no Home Again shelter, all pets must be taken into a foster home. Often that home already contains other pets and children who are put at risk by taking in a stray cat whose health problems are unknown.
To solve this problem, Home Again has built a quarantine room. All stray cats will first go to the quarantine room for 7-10 days observation, treatment if necessary, then into their foster home.
This is not a cat shelter – space will be made for cats who have foster homes ready to take them after their quarantine period. 
All the labour to build this shelter was donated – carpenters and electricians.
Home Again volunteers researched the best (cheapest) place to buy materials and fittings, many of which were donated.
Home Again Santa Claus Parade 2014
Here is Home Again’s float in Bancroft’s 2014 Santa Claus Parade. All the Home Again dogs who accompanied the float behaved beautifully.
Patty McLaughlin (left) holding Lulu, Katie Gavrylec in dog costume, June Ockenden in cat costume, and Melody Gavrylec.
Joan Phillips walking with Home Again’s Peri, a Papillon.
Christine Walker, far right, showcasing Home Again’s Bailey, a Great Pyrenees cross.
HomeAgain Volunteers!
Here are some of the volunteers behind HomeAgain. A few weeks ago, the Bancroft Times published an article describing our organization and its activities. Perhaps we will be able to post it here for posterity. Photo credit: Kristena Schutt from the Bancroft Times.
Benefits of ID tags..
What ID does your dog or cat have?
Residents of Bancroft should all purchase tags for their dogs. These tags are inexpensive and may save your pet’s life. The majority of all animals that come to Home Again or to the Municipal Dog Pound have no form of identification and may never be reunited with their owners.
If your cat goes outside, it also needs identification. Cats that have been spayed or neutered through Home Again will all have a rabies tag and a Home Again tag. A well fitted collar, can carry at least one of these tags.
Microchips, inserted by your vet are and permanent form of identification that can not be lost. But there are other forms of ID that cost very little, help to finance services such as the Municipal Dog Pound, and should you lose your pet, will ensure a speedy homecoming. Please be a responsible and caring pet owner. Make sure your pet can be identified.
10 Reasons for a Black Cat
Please see our AVAILABLE CATS page for cats that need homes.
The Benefits of Fostering..
We appreciate the help our fosters provide.
To learn more about our Foster program, please click here.
A featured “Comment”..
Diana K. writes on March 28, 2011..
I am so happy to see there are sites like this that people can go to and see that other people really do care for lost and abandoned animals. Barclay looks like a sweet little dog and I am glad he was adopted. It is so wonderful to see pictures of mistreated animals who now know what happiness is to be with someone who cares for them and also pics. of animals who are loved from the beginning of their lives. They are really so fragile and can’t tell you how much they have been through but you can see it in their little faces. They are all so very sweet. I know if I had a lot of money, I would never be able to help enough to see that they all had loving homes and it makes me happy just to know there are places like this that take them in until they can go Home Again.
Thanks Diana for your kind words…
A Pet’s Ten Commandments
Remember that they can’t do a lot of things for themselves and that they depend on you to make their life a quality life!
A PET’S TEN COMMANDMENTS:
1. My life is likely to last 10-15 years. Any separation from you is likely to be painful.
2. Give me time to understand what you want of me.
3. Place your trust in me. It is crucial for my well-being.
4. Don’t be angry with me for long and don’t lock me up as punishment. You have your work, your friends, your entertainment, but I have only you.
5. Talk to me. Even if I don’t understand your words, I do understand your voice when speaking to me.
6. Be aware that however you treat me, I will never forget it.
7. Before you hit me, before you strike me, remember that I could hurt you, and yet, I choose not to bite you.
8. Before you scold me for being lazy or uncooperative, ask yourself if something might be bothering me. Perhaps I’m not getting the right food, I have been in the sun too long, or my heart might be getting old or weak.
9. Please take care of me when I grow old. You too, will grow old.
10. On the ultimate difficult journey, go with me please. Never say you can’t bear to watch. Don’t make me face this alone. Everything is easier for me if you are there, because I love you so.
HOME AGAIN supports stronger legislation to prevent animal cruelty….
An article about “Animal cruelty laws”
Advocate for stronger legislation to protect animals in Canada..
Let’s speak up for the animals who cannot…
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