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BC SPCA special constables have seized 26 Great Danes and six cats from a property south of Kamloops. The 10 adult dogs and 16 puppies were in varying degrees of distress and were suffering from a range of untreated medical conditions.
News Category: Animal cruelty
Three ailing Clydesdale horses are under veterinary care after they were seized from a Powell River acreage by BC SPCA cruelty officers Friday. One horse, a 14-year-old gelding, was infested with external parasites and suffering from an eye tumour and infection so severe that the surrounding tissue was inflamed and pus streamed down the horse’s …
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News Category: Animal cruelty, Farm
A Likely, B.C. man has received a 10-year ban on owning animals in a BC SPCA cruelty investigation stemming from 2006. Guy William Smith was banned from keeping animals for the next decade after he was convicted of badly neglected 30 husky-malamute dogs in his care. The dogs were seized from his property in September …
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News Category: Animal cruelty
The BC SPCA has seized 18 animals in distress from a Nanaimo-area breeder. Five small breed dogs, including shih tzus, poodles, chihauhaus, and lhasa apso mixes, eight small breed puppies, four birds and one cat were taken into SPCA care after their owner failed to provide proper care. “The animals were housed in extremely unsanitary …
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News Category: Animal cruelty
A North Saanich woman who allowed her dog to suffer with a broken jaw, pneumonia and a collapsed lung has been charged with animal cruelty. Iris Jones faces charges under both the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act and the Criminal Code because her adult pit bull, Sherbert, was declined veterinary care after sustaining blunt …
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News Category: Animal cruelty
Langley veterinarians Mark Marohn and Carol Schoyen-Marohn have each been charged with two counts of animal cruelty after the BC SPCA discovered six emaciated and badly neglected horses in their care. The couple faces charges under both the Criminal Code of Canada and the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. They make their first court …
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News Category: Animal cruelty, Farm
