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An Esquimalt resident has received a lifetime ban on owning animals following a BC SPCA animal cruelty investigation. In August 2013, Hubert Henry was charged under both the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act and the Criminal Code of Canada for badly neglecting his female pit bull. The one-year-old dog was tethered outdoors without access …
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News Category: Animal cruelty
There are more than the usual number of dogs at several BC SPCA shelters on Vancouver Island this week. Twenty-six English and French bulldogs, pugs and other breeds came into the BC SPCA’s care recently, when a local breeder became overwhelmed with caring for these friendly, furry charmers. In Nanaimo, where six of the French …
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News Category: Adoption
A Metchosin couple has been banned from owning dogs for five years after pleading guilty of animal cruelty. In January, Dave and Beverly Bickerdike were charged under both the Criminal Code of Canada and the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act after SPCA animal protection officers responded to complaints that animals in the couple’s care …
News Category: Animal cruelty
The BC SPCA is recommending charges of animal cruelty against eight employees of Canada’s largest dairy farm, following a BC SPCA investigation in Chilliwack. “On June 2, the BC SPCA received an undercover video from the non-profit group Mercy for Animals Canada that showed the employees using chains, canes, rakes, their booted feet and their …
News Category: Animal cruelty, Farm
Charges of animal cruelty have been laid against a Colwood couple following a BC SPCA investigation into a brutal attack on the family’s dog. Joseph White and Elizabeth Johnston have been charged under the Criminal Code of Canada after their dog Bryn sustained severe injuries consistent with blunt force trauma. “When she came into our …
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News Category: Animal cruelty
The BC SPCA announced today it will be recommending charges of animal cruelty against a Lower Mainland dog walker after six dogs died in her care on May 13. Dubbed the “Brookswood Six” by local media, the dogs were initially reported stolen by the dog walker, but on May 18 she admitted that the dogs …
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News Category: Animal cruelty
