March 24, 2022The BC SPCA is urgently reminding pet guardians who live in high-rise buildings to protect their animals in response to a recent incident. Destiny, a beautiful, petite calico cat, broke her leg after tumbling off a balcony in January. She was brought to a veterinarian by a good Samaritan who found her. The veterinarian was …
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News Category: Animal Stories, Ways to help
February 4, 2022Late last year, you showed the BC SPCA a ton of puppy love! There is so much good news to share about the puppies who came into our care and one amazing, super-mom. Celeste and her puppies Celeste was emaciated when she arrived at the Nanaimo shelter along with her five puppies. She had been …
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News Category: Animal cruelty, Animal Stories
February 4, 2022When you see Ginger happily snuggling beneath a hand-knit blanket in her adoptive family’s home, it is hard to believe that just three months ago, this same kitten was living in deplorable conditions as one of 71 cats and kittens living in a hoarding situation. “Ginger was a very shy kitten, but she had the …
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News Category: Animal Stories
February 2, 2022Former Kamloops resident Crystal Maclean was devastated when her beloved cat Ralph went missing in March 2018. Ralph, a striking orange tabby with a white chin, escaped from a friend’s house where he was being pet-sit for the weekend. Maclean put up lost posters, searched the surrounding neighbourhoods, reached out to mail carriers and to …
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News Category: Animal Stories