Humane Education

Alliston & District Humane Society was awarded the Nottawasaga Futures South Simcoe Business Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Community Involvement in 2024. This award celebrates a long history of ADHS participation in community events and humane education visits and presentations.

ADHS offers a number of visits and programs to children’s groups and senior communities.

Youth in our community are keen to learn about the animal-human bond and interact with our animals in person. Visits with live animals spark questions, and discussions about animal care, responsibility, and animal welfare issues. Each year groups of Scouts, Guides, Sparks and Embers and other children’s groups invite us to meetings to learn and engage in positive social interactions with our volunteers and animals.

We are also frequently invited to senior living communities to discuss the operation of the humane society, animal welfare issues and provide a hands -on bonding experience with our animals.

ADHS has also run a reading program Pages for Paws in the shelter since 2023 in collaboration with the New Tecumseth library system. This program allows students to rotate through animal groups and read to them, which encourages both literacy skills and animal-human bonding.