Montreal Gazette
🏢 Postmedia
📍 QC
Jul 28, 2026
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Despite increased capacity, Montreal animal shelters struggling with surge of abandoned pets
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MONTREAL NEWS
Despite increased capacity, Montreal animal shelters struggling with surge of abandoned pets
Economic pressures and housing challenges are pushing more owners to give up their pets.
Proanima's Astrid Roussel pets Pancarte, a one-year-old male who was found abandoned. (Tim Snow / Montreal Gazette)
By
Leora Schertzer
July 28, 2026 at 6:00 a.m.
Even after a new shelter opened this year in Montreal, local animal rescues say they are still struggling to keep up with the influx of abandoned pets arriving at their doors.
Montreal SPCA director Sylvie Bourbonnière says thousands of a…
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