July 8, 2019The BC SPCA’s Victoria Branch is seeking your help with medical costs for a beautiful young dog named Cover Girl, who has undergone surgery for her severely broken leg. This one-and-a-half-year-old dog still retains her baby teeth and has developed extreme dental disease. She will need X-rays and another surgery to ensure she can eat …
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July 3, 2019Question: My indoor cat seems bored. How can I make my home more cat-friendly without it looking like a cat jungle gym? While dogs are content to live at ground level with their social group, cats use space differently. To meet a house cat’s needs in our homes requires us to think like the ancestral …
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News Category: Pet care
June 25, 2019The BC SPCA is caring for approximately 40 cats and kittens who were surrendered from a property in Vancouver. SPCA Special Provincial Constables received a concern regarding a number of cats at a property. BC SPCA Animal Protection Officers attended the property and found the cats living among piles of garbage and feces with inadequate …
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June 21, 2019The BC SPCA’s Vancouver Branch is seeking your help with medical costs for a young grey cat who was hit by a car. A Good Samaritan called the Vancouver SPCA emergency line for help after witnessing the cat get hit by the vehicle. A veterinary exam revealed that this poor two-year-old feline had broken her …
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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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