June 19, 2019The BC SPCA applauds the passing of Bill C-84 by the Senate of Canada. The bill offers better protection for animals from acts of bestiality and from being used for animal fighting. Under the updated legislation anyone convicted of bestiality would be added to Canada’s National Sex Offenders Registry and can be banned from owning …
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News Category: Animal cruelty
June 17, 2019Bane needs your help! This little dog arrived at the BC SPCA’s Maple Ridge Branch with what was suspected to be an abscessed tooth but X-rays revealed that was not the case. However, something was definitely wrong. Staff saw Bane could not walk properly and was showing signs of being in extreme pain. Bane was …
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June 14, 2019The 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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June 11, 2019One 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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June 10, 2019The 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
June 10, 2019The 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 …
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News Category: Wildlife