An OVMA Community Relations
Program
OVMA’s SafePet program is
dedicated to assisting women in leaving abusive partners
by providing temporary housing and care for their pets.
Many women at risk of abuse
are reluctant to leave their abusive partners and seek
help at a women’s shelter if it means leaving their
beloved pet behind with the abuser. Making that final
decision to leave an abusive partner is a vital one;
through OVMA’s SafePet program, not only can women make
this decision, they can make it more quickly and with
ease.
48% of
surveyed Ontario women who had left their abusive partner
said that their pets
delayed their decision to leave an abusive partner. *
61% of
surveyed Ontario women who had left their abusive partner
stated
that their partners had brutalized or killed a pet. *
(*OSPCA
1998)
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