MJHS employee Marissa Wilson with Charlie, one of the rescued dogs from northern Saskatchewan
With a lot of the evacuation orders being lifted and families heading back north, shelters across the province are now trying to determine what to do with the animals that were displaced because of the wild fires this summer.
Executive Director of the Moose Jaw Humane Society, Kristyn McEwen says that hundreds of dogs and cats, many of them community owned, or semi-stray, were evacuated because of the fires, but with no real owners some are now being adopted out.
"The dogs that we brought here were community owned. The Northern Animal Rescue knew that the had no owners so we were able to put them up for adoption."
McEwen explains they took in four dogs during the crisis who now need homes.
"We have one that's out on trial right now and we have three waiting to go home. We have lots of interest in them, but we wanted to make sure they had their vaccinations and had been spayed or neutered before they went out. We have a shepherd cross, a husky cross, and then we have a rottweiler cross."
McEwen explains the good news is that local pet owners helped to raise some funds to help with the rescue efforts.
"We had quite a few people drop off food, we had kennels. We were able to donate $1,500 to the fund that the Pack Project was collecting for."