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The BC SPCA’s Kelowna Branch is seeking your help with medical costs for Louise, an injured mother cat who is recovering from emergency surgery. Louise gave birth in the soft hay of a horse stall but the startled horse reared and landed on Louise’s leg. “This mother cat’s fractured right hind leg had to be …
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News Category: Ways to help
One of the 15 badly neglected dogs seized from a Fraser Valley breeder last month has given birth to five puppies. The mother dog and her babies are being cared for at an SPCA foster home in the Lower Mainland. These cute little ones are not yet up for adoption. Thank you so much to …
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News Category: Ways to help
After spending years of your lives together the time comes to part ways. It can be difficult to accept that a beloved pet is gone forever. The SPCA offers this guide to help pet guardians through a pet’s final days and the grieving process. Making the decision Making the decision to end a pet’s suffering …
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News Category: Pet care, behaviour, prevention and education
Notice: RHD public vaccination clinic The BC SPCA Vancouver Animal Hospital is offering a public vaccination clinic on June 26 from 6 to 8 p.m. to help rabbit guardians protect their pets against Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease (RHD), a highly contagious and potentially fatal virus that is affecting B.C.’s rabbit population. The goal of the clinic …
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News Category: Pet care, behaviour, prevention and education
The BC SPCA is requesting the public’s help to find the owner of an abandoned mother dog and her puppies. A Good Samaritan found the mother dog, who SPCA staff named Casey, inside a sealed box with her nine puppies at the Puntzi Lake Landfill. “There is no excuse for simply walking away from a …
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News Category: Animal cruelty, Ways to help
The BC SPCA is praising the passing of Bill S-203 after a final debate about the new legislation in Ottawa today. Nicknamed the ‘Free Willy’ bill, S-203 bans keeping whales and dolphins (cetaceans) in captivity in Canada. “Bill S-203 not only bans the capture and confinement of whales and dolphins, it also criminalizes the breeding …
News Category: Wildlife
The BC SPCA’s Sea to Sky Branch is seeking your help with medical costs for Theo, who has osteoarthritis in his right front elbow making the limb useless and causing him great pain. Theo’s osteoarthritis developed from an injury that became infected at the elbow. This grey tabby is only a year old and his …
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The last week of May was an exciting time at the SPCA as 145 adult cats found their forever homes. The half-price adult cat adoption promotion was presented by Hill’s® Pet Nutrition and ran from May 25 to 31. The event encourages cat lovers to adopt an older feline companion. “With kitten season underway the …
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News Category: Adoption
The BC SPCA recognizes that animals can help kids develop empathy and offers summer camp programs to create healthier communities. A child’s ability to imagine themselves in another person’s shoes is a valuable skill needed to build strong friendships and relationships. Yet, research from the University of Michigan suggests that kids are 40 per cent …
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News Category: Pet care, behaviour, prevention and education, Youth
The weather across the province has been heating up, and farmers’ markets are in full swing across B.C. (find a market near you). Farmers’ markets provide a wonderful opportunity to learn about where our food comes from and how it was produced. Whether or not you’re a regular at your local farmers’ market, you can …
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News Category: Farm, Ways to help
