February 17, 2015The BC SPCA is moving quickly in its investigation of a horrific case of animal abuse in Surrey. The RCMP initially responded to a 911 call at a Surrey basement suite, where they found a three-year-old black Labrador retriever badly beaten and bleeding from multiple stab wounds. The dog, named Ryder, had gone missing …
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February 16, 2015What do the BC SPCA, Microsoft and the Vancouver Canucks have in common? They are among the organizations voted as “Dream Employers” in the second annual survey conducted by Miles Employment Group, the Vancouver Board of Trade and Insights West. The survey, conducted between Nov. 17 and Dec. 9, 2014, asked British Columbians 18 years …
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February 6, 2015WARNING: the following story contains graphic images The BC SPCA’s Cruelty Investigations Department has identified the owner of a severely emaciated Siberian husky found wandering in Maple Ridge on Jan. 31. The young dog, estimated to be between one and two years old, weighed 15 kilograms upon intake, compared to a normal weight of about …
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January 28, 2015Lower Mainland dog walker Emma Paulsen was sentenced today to six months in jail and has been given a 10-year ban on owning animals and a lifetime ban on caring for other people’s pets. Paulsen was charged with animal cruelty following a BC SPCA investigation last May. On May 13, 2014 Paulsen reported that six …
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January 23, 2015Crown counsel has approved animal cruelty charges against former Centerplate CEO Des Hague following a BC SPCA investigation into the case. Images of Hague mistreating a friend’s Doberman puppy were captured last July on the elevator surveillance video in his downtown Vancouver apartment complex. Hague has been charged with two counts (Section 24 (1) and …
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December 18, 2014Pets of low-income guardians in the Downtown Eastside got an early Christmas present on Dec. 18 when Canadian singer Michael Bublé and his wife, Luisana Lopilato, donated a generous supply of DOG for DOG treats to Charlie’s Food Bank, the weekly pet food bank run by the BC SPCA. Charlie’s, which operates out of the …
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