The City of Moose Jaw will no longer have a contract with its Humane Society.
Since 2007, the city had been paying the Moose Jaw Humane Society about $120,000 a year to capture stray animals and enforce the animal bylaws.
However, the two sides have been trying to hammer out a contract for the past year.
Most recently, the city had offered to cough up $200,000 per year, but the Humane Society says it needs closer to $329,000.
“We did everything we could to try to maintain ties. There’s nothing we could do,” said Matt Noble, City Manager for the City of Moose Jaw. “They did not offer to remove or offer any other circumstance other than full payments of the amounts they were demanding.”
The Humane Society says what the city was offering would not cover all of its costs and that over the past seven years, it’s had to use $1.4 million of its own fundraising money to support its obligations to the city.
“My concern is what’s going to happen to the animals after January 2? What are they going to do with them?” said John LaBuick, Board President of the Moose Jaw Humane Society. “If the bylaw is going to be followed as it states, after five days the city says the animals should be euthanized.”
Noble says it will try to find stray dogs’ owners, and failing that it will reach out to dog rescue groups, including the Humane Society.
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