Welcome to Gerdy's Rescues & Adoptions!

We are a non-profit organization and a registered charity. We are a small, Montreal-based animal rescue group devoted to finding homes for abandoned and homeless cats and dogs. Please check the About Us section to learn more. You can also download the PDF version of our pamphlet by clicking here.

Bienvenue aux Rescapés de Gerdy!

Nous sommes un petit groupe de personnes bénévoles, basé à Montréal, dont la mission est d’offrir une nouvelle vie, par l’adoption, à bon nombre de chats et de chiens perdus, abandonnés ou maltraités. Nous sommes un organisme à but non lucratif et une oeuvre de bienfaisance enregistrée. Pour savoir plus, consultez la section Qui sommes-nous? Ou téléchargez notre brochure en cliquant sur ce lien.

Please check the Adoptions section to learn more about the cats and dogs in need of a new home or click directly on the photo for the most recent arrivals.

Pour plus d'informations sur les chats et chiens qui ont besoin d'un foyer, veuillez vous référer à la section Adoptions ou cliquez sur la photo.

You can read about our most recent adoptions by clicking on the photos below. To view others who've been adopted since this site was created, please visit the Happy Endings section.

Vous pouvez lire à propos des autres animaux adoptés à la section Dénouements heureux ou cliquez sur la photo.

We like nothing better than to receive photos and updates on how our many adoptees are doing and share the news with you. You can read the most recent Tales to Tell by clicking on any of the the photos below or read them all by clicking here.

Il n'y a rien qui nous fait plus plaisir que lorsque vous partagez avec nous vos  nouvelles en nous envoyant des photos et des lettres des animaux adoptés. Vous pouvez les lire en cliquant sur ce lien.

We are looking for short-term and long-term foster homes. Would you be willing and able to house a cat or a dog on short notice? All animals would be vet-checked, vaccinated and sterilized. Food and all required veterinary care would also be provided. To learn more about what's involved, click here. If you can help, please contact us. Thank you.

Nous sommes à la recherche de foyers d’accueil de courte durée et de longue durée. Seriez-vous prêt(e) et disposé(e) à accueillir chez vous, avec un avis de dernière minute, un chat ou un chien? Tous les animaux auront, au préalable, été vérifiés par un vétérinaire, castrés et vaccinés. La nourriture, ainsi que les soins chez le vétérinaire, seront fournis. Veuillez communiquer avec nous si vous pouvez nous venir en aide. Merci.

Gerdy's Rescues & Adoptions Tyler Fund

This fund was founded in memory of our beloved dog Tyler and dear friend Cecily Davies in order to bring hope and comfort to both animals and people in their time of need.

– Tyler's family

Please check the Donations section to learn more.

Fonds Tyler des Rescapés de Gerdy

Nous avons créé ce fonds à la mémoire de Tyler, notre chien adoré, et de Cecily Davies, notre chère amie, pour donner de l’espoir et du réconfort aux animaux et aux gens dans le besoin.

– La famille de Tyler

Vous trouverez plus de détails à la section DONS.

Hi, I am Daisy

I was very sick a while ago with a mass in my throat, I couldn’t breathe and bark and my people tried to help me but made a few wrong choices in my vet care. They love me very much, and I was getting worse. They didn’t want me to leave, so after praying for help, they found Gerdy’s Animal Rescue and pleaded for help to find a way to save me.

Now because Gerty found it in her heart to help me and because of donations from kind people to THE TYLER FUND, I had an operation by a wonderful Vet named Dr. Christine Carle at the Victoria Veterinary Hospital in St-Lambert also with the support of their Foundation. I can now breathe and I have my energy back. I even bark again after a year of silence!

Please people, do your research of Veterinarians before putting your pet’s lives in their hands or get a second opinion. Thank you Gerdy, THE TYLER FUND and Dr. Carle for giving me more time to be with the people I love.

Thanks Gerty from Jeannette Ettinger

Gerdy's Rescues will again be at the HUDSON PET FAIR  & ADOPTION DAY on Saturday, March 27th. We'll be having another BASKET drawing so please click here to learn more!

Gerdy’s Rescues will be participating in the Saint Patrick’s Day parade in HUDSON, QC, with volunteers walking some of our dogs.

Please click here to learn more!

ROXIE is an 8 year old girl who, along with HARLEY has been looking for a home for nearly a year. ROXIE suddenly experienced a life-threatening condition requiring emergency surgery to save her life, BLOAT otherwise known as a twisted stomach.

We are now appealing for donations to help offset this huge, unexpected drain on our finances so any help you can give will be deeply appreciated. Please click here to learn more.

This poor little 4 month old Chocolate Lab puppy had been found with shattered "elbows" on both front legs, likely from being dragged some distance in a shocking act of animal cruelty.

Now Gerdy's Rescues & Adoptions appeals for your donations to aid in his recovery. Please click here to learn more.

Gerdy's Rescues is very sad to hear about the passing of Nessie. Please click here to read her Memoriam.

Gerdy’s Rescues thanks all who helped us help Maddox—we could not have done it without your help! Maddox will have a forever home with his foster mom upon whom he now depends so much. Please click here to read his latest update.

We are happy to announce that the French & English versions of the 2009 Fall/Winter Newsletter has arrived! Please click here to view them as we celebrate 1000 Rescues!

See what we have done in 2009 and will be continuing in 2010. We thank all who supported us this past year and enabled us to continue in our work.  You are deeply appreciated because without your support, we could not do the effort we do to save lives, end misery by helping the sick and injured, find homes, do needed vet care, and provide safe lodging for animals in our care.  You make us what we are.  You are saving lives along with us. Thank you for your financial and moral support.    

Gerdy

In response to our write-ups about Pitbulls, we received a balanced email and photos that we felt was worth sharing. Please click here to read it.

A devastated cat owner emailed us about her experience after their pet licked off a small amount of pure basil essential oil that had accidently been spilt on his fur.

In phoning a vet’s office about her cat, the message was relayed to the vet by the phone person, the vet assured the phone person to tell the client that the cat would be okay. The vet did not take the call, instead the phone person had put her own interpretation to the call when talking to the vet, and obviously missed some vital details, and the cat died after the client was told it would be ok without treatment.

This cat would likely be alive today if the vet had taken up the phone and had not gone through an intermediary where detail was lost. Even a simple “bring the cat right in” would have sufficed to bring immediate action to get the cat cared for. People who answer the phone are not vets. Direction to an emergency vet could have been done if the vet was too busy—ANYTHING to get the cat seen. A diagnosis was made without talking to the client and a beloved animal died just two and a half days later as a result.

To be consumed with grief and guilt—yes, guilt—because realizing now they should have not listened to the advice given by a vet when he never spoke to them about what happened and therefore did not have the essential details to indicate a true emergency—they play this in their minds constantly. They were so relieved to hear what they wanted to hear, that he would be ok as is, they never thought to question what the vet said and have him seen elsewhere right away.

To those who use ESSENTIAL OILS -BEWARE- THIS COULD BE YOU!!

PLEASE INFORM YOUR VET THIS IS A TOXIC SUBSTANCE!!!

Missing outdoor roaming cats are increasingly more likely to have become prey for an ever– increasing number of predators.  In the last few years, the Fisher (member of the Weasel family) and Coyote populations are increasing and when food gets scarce, especially in the colder months, cats can make an easy meal.  The risk is even greater at night for cats outside.  Small dogs are also targeted as prey, and are more endangered in neighbourhoods surrounded by woods.

People seem to be spotting more of these wild animals each year.  Bobcat numbers are up in some areas, along with Fishers, Coyotes, and in some areas, Great-Horned Owls.  The population of these animals is greatest in the spring when the animals are giving birth and in the fall, when they have a lot of young to feed and take foods they wouldn’t ordinarily seek, such as cats.  In the last 10 years, Fishers have expanded their range.  Fishers have been spotted in Laval and Hudson areas of Quebec in particular.  In fact we hear stories of them being spotted around  both on and off-island in the Montreal region.  A good reason to convert beloved cats into indoor inhabitants only!

Providing a window with a cat tree to look out over a bird feeder in the yard provides them with safe entertainment and helps the bird population as well.  Everyone wins — most of all the cats who will be saved.

We are pleased to see that our website continues to attract a growing number of visitors. After 6 straight months of growth, we have now tripled the number of daily visits to our website.  This has not only increased the number of our adoption opportunities, but also increased the number of appeals to help homeless animals as well., thereby increasing the number of animals coming into our care.

The need for funding is a constant one as an animal we take in may need anything from a simple update on shots to medical treatment, especially in cases of abuse or neglect. To see more and more animals go into new loving homes because of your financial help is the reward not only to the Gerdy's Rescues team, but to you, our supporters without whom Gerdy's rescues could not exist.

You, dear friends and supporters, are the mortar to our bricks of growth. "Helping  one animal may not make a big difference to the world, but it makes the world of difference to that one animal."

Thank you.

We've now added the extra convenience of making secure online donations via CanadaHelps.org. Please check the Donations Section to learn more.

Pour faciliter vos transactions de dons életroniques sécurisés en ligne nous vous offrons maintenant la possibilité de faire vos dons via CanadaHelps.org. Veuillez visiter notre section DONS pour en savoir plus.

Gerdy wishes to thank everyone who's made use of our secure PayPal account to make a donation. The number of people who've contributed in such a short period of time has already made it a resounding success! Please check the Donations Section to learn more.

Gerdy aimerait remercier tous ceux et celles qui ont choisi d'utiliser notre compte électronique sécurisé Paypal pour faire un don. Ce fut un succès retentissant grâce au nombre de personnes qui ont contribué dans un si court lapse de temps. Veuillez visiter la section DONS pour en savoir plus.

Every effort is made to respond to your e-mails within 24 hours and to keep our web site as up to date as possible. However, some of the cats and dogs you see on our Adoptions page may already be adopted or adoption pending when you contact us. Or, we may have just got a cat or dog in that isn't yet featured on our web site. We therefore suggest you also check out a smaller listing we have on www.petfinder.com; click on Shelters & Rescue Groups at the top of the page, then enter Quebec in the box marked' State'.

Nous mettons tout en oeuvre pour répondre à vos courriels dans les 24 heures et effectuer une mise à jour régulière de notre site Web. Toutefois, il se peut que certains chats et chiens que vous voyez à la page Adoptions soient déjà adoptés ou sur le point de l'être au moment où vous communiquez avec nous. Ou encore que nous venions tout juste d'accueillir un chat ou chien qui ne paraît pas encore sur notre site Web. Par conséquent, nous vous suggérons de vérifier une liste abrégée de nos animaux offerts en adoption à l'adresse www.petfinder.com; cliquez sur Shelters & Rescue Groups au haut de la page, puis inscrivez Quebec dans la case sous "State".