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A 10-year-old-old dog whose ear infection was so bad that BC SPCA animal cruelty investigators could smell it from two metres away has been given a new leash on life, while his former guardian has been charged with animal cruelty. Denise Westle of Maple Ridge has been charged under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals …
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News Category: Animal cruelty
Crown counsel has charged Brentwood Bay residents David Whiffin and Clayton Cunningham with animal cruelty after a 27-year-old Appaloosa gelding named Jalupae was starved to the point of emaciation and then hung to death. The alleged incident took place on a waterfront acreage in Brentwood Bay. “It is so difficult to fathom why anyone would …
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News Category: Animal cruelty, Farm
Powell River resident Bud Wilcocks pled guilty on Oct. 29 to charges of animal cruelty. The charges were laid following a BC SPCA investigation on Feb. 3 in which the SPCA seized six lame, lice-infested and emaciated goats and three neglected ponies from a farm on Westview Avenue. The property was also littered with animal …
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News Category: Animal cruelty
You’ve seen the video clip of Ginger and Thunder, and now so have hundreds of thousands of people across North America! With what is possibly one of the funniest adopt-a-pet segment videos in recent memory, Ginger the kiss-a-bull Pit Bull and Thunder, a Border Collie/Sheppard cross, have become Internet sensations. Meet the Stars Ginger Ginger, …
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Crown counsel has charged Peter Joseph Seymour with four counts of animal cruelty following an SPCA investigation involving three badly-neglected dogs. Two adult dogs, one of whom was “days from death,” and a puppy were removed from a Ladysmith-area First Nations reserve in March. One of the adults, a skeletal female bullmastiff, was surrendered March …
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News Category: Animal cruelty
BC SPCA special constables seized 73 animals from a Vernon area property yesterday. The animals were removed after their owner failed to comply with SPCA orders to improve conditions for the animals, despite more than 20 follow-up visits by SPCA officers during the past year. “This was a case where the owner had been given …
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News Category: Animal cruelty
