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The BC SPCA is recommending charges be laid under the PCA Act and Criminal Code of Canada in a cruelty case involving a female lab-cross and her puppies. The animals came into the BC SPCA’s care over the weekend when a badly emaciated dog wearing a heavy chain around her neck caught the attention of …
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News Category: Animal cruelty
BC SPCA constables responded to a call over the weekend to assist a dog in distress in a locked car. On Saturday the BC SPCA Burnaby Branch received a call from a Good Samaritan who noticed a puppy confined in a kennel in a car which was sitting in direct sunlight in the Burnaby BCIT …
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News Category: Animal cruelty
Two Langford area residents, Tyler Miskow and Andrea Mills, have been charged with animal cruelty. The pair is being charged with two counts of neglecting and failure to provide adequate care for an animal under the Criminal Code of Canada and the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. Miscow and Mills’ male cat, Romeo, was …
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News Category: Animal cruelty
A Kelowna man who tied up and abandoned his critically ill dog at the local SPCA shelter during the early hours of March 14, 2011, has pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges. Dave Schamerhorn received a $750 fine and a five-year ban on owning or having custody of animals. Schamerhorn’s beige and white Labrador cross …
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News Category: Animal cruelty
Pitt Meadows resident David Chan has been given a lifetime ban on owning animals after pleading guilty to abusing his seven-month-old Pekingese, Bosco. A veterinarian alerted BC SPCA constables after Chan brought the dog to his clinic on Feb. 9, 2010 suffering from a broken hip and two fractured hind legs. The dog was …
News Category: Animal cruelty
The province introduced proposed changes to the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act in the legislature today to better protect animals from suffering and abuse. The proposed amendments were developed on the recommendation of a government sled dog task force that was appointed earlier this year following the reported mass killings of sled dogs near …
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News Category: Animal cruelty
