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WAG
WAG
provides the best quality of life and offers the best outcome for every
animal in our care. We are a resource for the Whistler region, providing
education, advocacy, and animal care.
WAG is the
safety net for lost, abandoned, and harmed animals in the region. From
Whistler to Lillooet, WAG offers hope to all animals in need. WAG has
exceptional knowledge, experience, and expertise.
WAG
Matchmaker Program has 100% success rate: all animals in our program
are placed in permanent homes. To prepare an animal for its forever
home, WAG provides medical care, behavioral training, and socialization.
Then, our Matchmaker Program allows us to match the lifestyle,
needs, and experience of adopters with the animals we’ve become so
familiar with.
Our Second Chances program serves animals with
special needs who might otherwise not receive essential medical and
rehabilitation services.
WAG’s
promise to the animals: We will use our
expertise and experience to offer hope and promise for all the animals
in our care, whatever their issues, history, and circumstances. Through
veterinary care, spaying and neutering, diverse social experiences,
attentive training, exercise and mental stimulation, volunteers and
staff will provide a high quality of life for the animals.
WAG dogs
spend their days walking, playing, training, and lounging outside of
their kennels. WAG cats enjoy the perches, scratching posts, cubby holes
and windows of the common cat room.
Mission Statement
To protect and
enhance the lives of lost, unwanted, and homeless animals.
Vision
To bring about a
time in our communities when all animals are treated humanely and with
respect, and when every cat or dog ever born is guaranteed a loving home
for the duration of its life.
Values
Respect
All animals should be treated with respect, as one would treat another
person.
Accountability
WAG holds
itself accountable to its donors as well as to the animals for which we
care, for the duration of their lifetime. Similarly, all members of our
community should be held accountable for their actions towards animals.
Quality of
Life
Our daily mission is to ensure that we do all in our power to ensure a
high quality of life for the animals in our care, including quality
medical care, training, socialization, basic care, and exercise.
WAG is operated by a volunteer Board of Directors and currently
has two full time and two-part time employees. WAG began in 1982 as a
volunteer-based organization with no shelter facility. WAG has been
incorporated as a non-profit society under the BC Society Act since
1992. In 2000, WAG entered into a contract with the Resort Municipality
of Whistler for the operation of the dog impound facility. Under this
contract WAG cares for animals impounded by the Resort Municipality of
Whistler and in exchange, is permitted to occupy the municipal impound.
Shortly after this development, WAG was granted status as a registered
charity by the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency.
WAG
is committed to ethical fundraising and financial accountability. We
respect donor's rights to truthful information and privacy and commit to
managing funds responsibly.
The WAG WAY
The WAG Way is to embrace the human-animal relationship.
Our adoption screening program
ensures that each animal is adopted into a home that meets
all of the animal's needs. Every animal that comes into
WAG’s care is vaccinated, treated for parasites, and
neutered. Animals are assessed for behavioral problems and
retrained to ensure that they find a loving, lifelong home.
The
WAG Way is all about stepping in for our voiceless friends
during their time of need.

Photo by H. Wirsching "Daffodil"
The 2007 WAG Annual
Report is now available
Click here to download
the .pdf file.
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