November 29, 2021The Policing and Security Branch of the BC Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General has worked closely with police and key stakeholders to launch a new online training course for B.C. police, which will help officers identify risk in intimate partner violence investigations by including perpetrators’ behaviours towards animals. “The link between animal abuse …
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News Category: Outreach
November 29, 2021In July of this year, Gator was rushed to an emergency clinic in Vancouver after BC SPCA animal protection officers found him at an abandoned doggy daycare in a kennel filled with urine and feces. The six-year-old Briard had been left there with another dog, who tragically did not survive the ordeal and was found …
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News Category: Adoption, Animal cruelty, Ways to help
November 22, 2021The BC SPCA is grateful to all the animal lovers who have generously supported efforts to help pet guardians and their animals impacted by the devastating floods in B.C. “We are currently providing free emergency boarding for animals throughout the Interior, the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island, and providing free crates, pet food, leashes, collars …
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November 18, 2021The BC SPCA is providing pet guardians who were evacuated due to the flooding in Abbotsford pet food, crates, leashes, harnesses and other urgent supplies at the ESS Reception Centre at Tradex. “People can simply come to our table and pick-up whatever they need,” says Sarah Ringer-Vennard, Abbotsford BC SPCA Branch Manager. “If we don’t …
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November 5, 2021The BC SPCA would like to thank the tens of thousands of British Columbians who spoke out against the suffering of mink on commercial farms in B.C. The BC SPCA has been actively campaigning for the past two years for an end to the practice of farmed mink, who are raised and killed solely for …
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October 28, 2021The BC SPCA is conducting an investigation into allegations of animal cruelty at a Fraser Valley dairy farm. “Last week we received video footage that appears to be depicting very serious instances of animal abuse on this farm,” says Marcie Moriarty, the BC SPCA’s chief prevention and enforcement officer. “We immediately attended the farm on …
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News Category: Animal cruelty