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Finnegan
SPCA warns about group that captures abused dogs. "He was urinating in the snow and he froze to the snow. We had to scrape him up with a shovel."
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Finnegan was reported to the BC SPCA. Why did they leave him yet seize healthy dogs?
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Crab Boil
The BC SPCA was going to boil live crabs again until the P.R. got bad enough.
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The Rescue of Cheech From the SPCA
Why did some SPCA staff and volunteers feel compelled to steal this dog from the SPCA? Cheech's rescue was televised and the rest is history...
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BC SPCA - A Prison Camp For Animals
Both women used the term "Auschwitz"—the name of a Second World War concentration camp in Poland—to describe what they've witnessed in their respective shelters, and said there is an alarming insensitivity around the practice of euthanasia."
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The Raid On Forgotten Felines Cat Shelter
On October 10th, 2003, three officers of the BC SPCA appeared at the home of Penny March and her husband Serge Belley and demanded entry to inspect their cat shelter, Forgotten Felines in Richmond BC...
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Seize and Kill! Or Rescue and Save?
Case one: Topaz Creek dogs: rescued and saved by Creston Paws Society. Case two: Beaverdell dogs: seized and killed by the SPCA.
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Judith
Ten years on a chain. No blanket, toy, or bone. Often no clean food or water.
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Kamloops Killings
SPCA heroically "rescues" and then kills the "rescued".
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SPCA and FOI
Is the government, by exempting the BC SPCA from the Society Act, enabling its attempts to withhold information from the public? That is obviously not in the interests of public service and freedom of information.
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Primate Seizure
Killing the rescued if they get too expensive.
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Kamloops SPCA Kills Sick Cats Instead of Making Them Better
Animal Welfare saves, animal control kills. Kamloops SPCA makes them sick and then kills them for being sick. And then holds a party to raise funds.
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Gwen Wilson Seizure by the BC SPCA
"There have been many times through my years as a volunteer agent for the SPCA that I disagreed with the way they did things, but never to the degree I do in this instance."
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Selling Sick Animals
Dot was sold by the Surrey SPCA to a breed rescue group for ninety dollars in this condition.
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Victoria SPCA on C-Fax
Victoria SPCA Manager Penny Stone said that use of the gas box "isn't done at any of the SPCAs anymore". Not far from the Victoria SPCA, at the SPCA's Wild Ark, there is a gas box in use.
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Senior's Living
In the May issue of "Senior Living", there is an article "Plan for Pets" by Diana Gault that promotes the SPCA Pet Survivor Program. Ms. Gault was most impressed with the SPCA Program and Planned Giving Officer John Houle. What the article fails to say is that Diana Gault is John Houle's wife.
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BC SPCA Directors
Should BC SPCA Directors be above reproach? Or is race horse breeding and racing okay? What about approving of killing feral cats? What about connections to suppliers of research labs?
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