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How your food choices matter during the holidays and year round

December 3, 2025

The holiday season is a wonderful time to gather with loved ones and celebrate over festive meals. Every choice we make has an impact on animals, the environment, and our communities. Whether you choose to buy local, support welfare-friendly farms, or enjoy more plant-based meals, your decisions matter. Small choices, big impact   Choosing to reduce your consumption of …

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Severely matted poodle mix, found chained outside in snow, rescued by BC SPCA 

December 2, 2025

On November 18 while responding to concerns of animal cruelty, a BC SPCA animal protection officer found a heartbreaking sight. A heavily matted dog was lying in the snow, no shelter in sight on a remote property east of Prince Rupert. The dog, a seven-year-old poodle mix was almost unrecognizable. She was shivering in the …

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BC SPCA seeking public assistance to identify dog in alarming cruelty case 

November 28, 2025

WARNING: Graphic images below. On November 21, the BC SPCA’s Animal Helpline received a call from a grandfather and granddaughter who happened upon a deceased dog in a remote, wooded location near Penticton. The responding animal protection officer investigated immediately and found what appeared to be a German Shepherd, muzzled and tightly tethered to a …

Keeping pets and families together: BC SPCA’s pet food banks feed more than 44,000 cats and dogs across B.C. 

November 25, 2025

As of November 25, the BC SPCA’s pet food bank program has already provided a week’s worth of food to a total of 44,320 dogs and cats in 2025, a total of 622,850 meals.  “That works out to the BC SPCA supporting an average of 923 pets per week just through our pet food banks alone,” …

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Owner of horses in distress pleads guilty, receiving 15-year ban on owning animals 

November 24, 2025

On November 12, 2025, in provincial court in Vernon, Sandra Nickolls entered a guilty plea to causing animals to be in distress, contrary to section 24(1) of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act (PCA). In April 2024, the BC SPCA was called to investigate what appeared to be an injured horse on a property …

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