We are a non-profit puppy rescue organization. We bring puppies down from Moosonee and Moose Factory, located on the fringe of James Bay, Ontario, to save them from being trapped and shot. Our affiliation is with Moosonee PUPs (Preventing Unwanted Puppies). For more information on this organization and their mission, please go to www.moosoneepups.com. There are no vets or animal shelters in Moosonee and Moose Factory. It is up to us to protect and care for these outstanding dogs.

The dogs in Moosonee and Moose Factory tend to run loose as they are not often, if ever, allowed in the house by their owners. There are no vets up there to spay or neuter so the dogs breed freely. The organization PUP (Preventing Unwanted Puppies) sends a vet up three times a year at a cost of about $5000 per trip to spay or neuter as many adult dogs as possible--but puppies are still being born.

Puppies are found living under houses, in the bush or wandering stray. Often, the mother has been trapped and shot, so young pups are left to fend for themselves. If we did not rescue them and bring them south the puppies would be rounded up and killed.

Our rescue workers in Moosonee care for the puppies until they are able to travel to us in Bracebridge. The puppies are sometimes flown to Timmins, or they ride the Polar Bear Express Train to Cochrane. Lloyd Richards Moving Company sometimes trucks them to Bracebridge where we meet them at the side of the road or we drive north to get them. There is quite a network of people working to save these outstanding dogs.

We sometimes receive dogs from Atiwapiskat, which is even further north than Moosonee/Moose Factory. The dogs up there suffer terribly, mostly from human ignorance, which leads to cruelty and abuse. We have expanded our rescue services to include Northern Ontario in general. Some pups are now coming from Timmins, Kirkland Lake and Kapuskasing.