For all other calls and inquiries
see our contact details.
Search Adoptable Animals
or Lost & Found Pets
Crown counsel has approved animal cruelty charges against former Centerplate CEO Des Hague following a BC SPCA investigation into the case. Images of Hague mistreating a friend’s Doberman puppy were captured last July on the elevator surveillance video in his downtown Vancouver apartment complex. Hague has been charged with two counts (Section 24 (1) and …
Continue reading “Animal cruelty charges approved against Des Hague”
News Category: Animal cruelty
WARNING: Graphic content below The BC SPCA is looking for information on how a deceased dog in a duffel bag came to be in the water near Ogden point in Victoria today. Victoria Animal Control attended the call and found a deceased, short-haired white dog in the bag, floating in the water. Before starting a …
Continue reading “BC SPCA hopes public can help identify duffel bag, dog found in water”
News Category: Animal cruelty, Pet care
Two severely emaciated terrier-cross puppies who were tethered outdoors in freezing temperatures without food or water are now safely in the care of the BC SPCA. The male puppies, only a few months old, were being kept outside a home near Ladysmith. “It was heartbreaking to see how these little puppies were being forced to …
Continue reading “Terrier-cross puppies rescued by BC SPCA near Ladysmith”
News Category: Animal cruelty
Horrifying footage from several Canadian fur farms – including mink farms in British Columbia – was released today by the Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals (APFA). Experts who have seen the footage describe it as disturbing, noting the often-filthy living conditions, the tiny cages the animals live in, and stereotypic behaviours such as …
Continue reading “Disturbing fur farm footage heightens public awareness of industry”
News Category: Animal cruelty, Pet care
The BC SPCA has seized 53 animals, including 18 horses, 18 large and small-breed dogs, 15 birds and two cats from a property near Houston, B.C. Numerous fish kept in filthy conditions were also removed in the seizure, which took place on Aug. 28. “The horses were kept in unclean and substandard conditions. Many were …
Continue reading “BC SPCA seizes 53 animals near Houston, B.C.”
News Category: Animal cruelty
Crown counsel has approved several charges of animal cruelty against Lower Mainland dogwalker Emma Paulsen. The BC SPCA filed a report recommending the charges against Paulsen in May after six dogs died in her care. Paulsen initially reported the dogs stolen on May 13, sparking a community search for the missing animals, but later admitted …
Continue reading “Charges laid in death of “Brookswood Six” dogs”
News Category: Animal cruelty
Wondering what the new Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) and what it means for you? The federal government passed the Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) to regulate electronic activities of businesses and charities, and the new legislation came into effect on July 1, 2014. Broadly speaking, CASL is a complex piece of legislation that changes the ways …
Continue reading “CASL: What the new anti-spam legislation means”
News Category: Animal cruelty
Rupert Wilson, the owner of a two-year-old shepherd-cross dog who was found emaciated and near death near Port Hardy last November, has received a 10-year prohibition on owning animals. Wilson, who was charged under the Criminal Code of Canada following a BC SPCA investigation, was also given a three-month jail term (conditional sentence order), one …
News Category: Animal cruelty
An Esquimalt resident has received a lifetime ban on owning animals following a BC SPCA animal cruelty investigation. In August 2013, Hubert Henry was charged under both the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act and the Criminal Code of Canada for badly neglecting his female pit bull. The one-year-old dog was tethered outdoors without access …
Continue reading “Esquimalt man receives lifetime ban on owning animals”
News Category: Animal cruelty
A Metchosin couple has been banned from owning dogs for five years after pleading guilty of animal cruelty. In January, Dave and Beverly Bickerdike were charged under both the Criminal Code of Canada and the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act after SPCA animal protection officers responded to complaints that animals in the couple’s care …
News Category: Animal cruelty
