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Local dog training company The Gibsons Dogrunner has received BC SPCA AnimalKind accreditation, a recognition awarded to dog training companies that are committed to higher animal welfare. Krisztina Harasztosi, owner and trainer at The Gibsons Dogrunner, started volunteering and working at the Gibsons Wildlife Rehabilitation Center soon after moving to Canada from Hungary. Around the …
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News Category: Awards and accreditation
While our avian friends have some pretty impressive qualities in common – forget flying, try building a nest sturdy enough to hold tiny hatchlings without using your hands! – birds belonging to the group of aerial insectivores are particularly impressive. Birds like swallows, swifts, martins, and nighthawks have a diet that consists almost entirely of …
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News Category: Wildlife
June is National Adopt a Cat Month. It is a time when “kitten season” reaches its peak with a traditionally larger number of feline births and the BC SPCA begins to see an increase in the number of kittens and cats surrendered to their care. To help ensure the BC SPCA can continue to take …
News Category: Community
Many Canadians care deeply about farmed animal welfare but sometimes feel powerless to make a difference. However, you can help farmed animals in many important ways, including speaking up for them! Canada’s Codes of Practice for the care and handling of farm animals set important rules for ensuring farmed animal welfare nationally. Everyone, from farmers …
News Category: Farm, Take action
A perfect match is worth the wait. Beloved long-term resident Oso has finally found his forever home after spending almost 300 days in the care of the BC SPCA’s Comox Animal Centre. Poor Oso was surrendered into the BC SPCA’s care after spending the first three and a half years of his life tethered to …
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News Category: Animal Stories
Dave found Wilfred when he stopped to unload his mountain bike from his truck. He was getting ready to ride the trails off Postil Road in Kelowna when he noticed a light reflecting off something down the embankment by the road. “When I saw the pet carrier, I figured it was empty and had been …
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News Category: Ways to help
