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The change in weather and the tumble of autumn leaves typically means the start of injured owl season at the BC SPCA’s Wild Animal Rehabilitation Centre (ARC), with a higher number of these night-time hunters arriving in need of care. As the days get shorter, folks tend to head to work and return home in …
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News Category: Wildlife
Recent news that the world’s largest travel website, TripAdvisor, will no longer sell tickets to animal attractions is welcomed by the BC SPCA. The internet travel giant has launched a “no touching of wild animals” policy, which means it will no longer sell tickets to attractions where travellers come into physical contact with captive, wild …
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News Category: Wildlife
After having his leg shot off at the elbow, a dog at the Williams Lake SPCA must have the entire leg amputated. Someone shot Max, an affectionate white German Shepherd-husky mix, with a gun, leaving him with a horrible wound with exposed, broken and shattered bones and infection. “A Good Samaritan spotted Max about two …
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News Category: Animal cruelty, Ways to help
Staff at the BC SPCA’s Wild Animal Rehabilitation Centre (ARC) on Vancouver Island are hoping the public can help a short-eared owl fly again, after she was found by the side of the road with two severely broken bones in her left wing. “She’s a female adult Short-eared owl – a rare patient at Wild …
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News Category: Ways to help, Wildlife
A Mission woman has been sentenced to three years’ probation and a 15-year ban on keeping animals, following a BC SPCA investigation. Faye Delores Parkinson, 75, was found guilty of two counts of animal cruelty under the Criminal Code earlier this year after BC SPCA constables seized 18 neglected animals from her property. Eleven Persian …
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News Category: Animal cruelty
Charges of animal cruelty have been laid against a Vancouver Island woman accused of beating a seven-year-old teacup Chihuahua so severely that the dog had to be euthanized due to critical distress. The charges come after an investigation by the BC SPCA. Kylie Nikkels of Courtenay faces two counts of animal cruelty under the Criminal …
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News Category: Animal cruelty
