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- Article: Are Zoos Killing Elephants?
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency invites submissions on updating transport rules
- Whalers Take over IWC
- Pet owners stop man from hitting pooch with chain leash
- Why has the dog owner not been charged with cruelty?
- Progress, drowned cats and power tools
- Greyhaven bird sanctuary needs new facility
- Boo the grizzly goes back to his prison
- Help needed to abolish bullfights in Spain
- Behind the scenes in the sled dog industry: Sled dogs found dead or starving
- RAIN ON THEIR PARADE PROTEST
- ‘Kira’ found wandering by a road 1 1/2hrs outside of Kamloops
- Rabbits to be killed in Richmond *PIC*
- Breeders and pet stores
- Anchorage Press: It's illegal to release domesticated animals into the wild, but many people don't realize that
- Richmond Review: Rabbits should be sterilized says SPCA
- Yet the SPCA sells unsterilized rabbits and partners with the biggest seller of rabbits *PIC*
- The SPCA's partnership with the animal-selling Petcetera can't be animal welfare *PIC*
- If it is irresponsible to not sterilize your pets, then the SPCA is the most irresponsible of all
- Rabbit release cruel
- Shooting abandoned rabbits an inhumane idea *PIC*
- The Richmond rabbit epidemic is no surprise
- An animal in a cage is not a pet - it's a prisoner, and shame on anyone who promotes this
- Why does the SPCA promote keeping animals in cages? *PIC*
- Abandonment is not the problem
- Call Environmental Agencies About Bird Destruction on Eagleridge Bluffs
- Anti-circus polls in Prince George
- Dog Day in the City to be staged at Trout Lake
- There is still no law in Vancouver against chaining or penning dogs their whole lives
- GVAC holds clinic for the pets of Victoria's street people
- Times Colonist: Free clinic aims to keep street pets healthy *PIC* *PIC*
- Vets for Street Pets - June 12, 2006 *PIC*
- Famous cartoonist Raeside on GVAC's street clinic *NM* *PIC*
- Victoria News: Free vet clinic for street pets *PIC*
- Internal memo from Aquarium president refusing to obey Parks Board
- Who to write
- Spain aims to give great apes the same rights as humans
- Gov't committee recommends that the SPCA exemption from FOI be removed
- The Daum Report: Prepared for the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act Review Committee *LINK*
- SPCA secrecy is protected from FOI scrutiny. SPCA does not have to say how many seized animals it has killed *LINK*
- A letter from Animal Right Coalition to Solicitor General and Minister of Agriculture
- Solicitor General John Les replies
- ARC's concerns raised in committee: Solicitor General commits to a review
- Rabies Scare Stops PetSmart Adoptions in Maryland
- Rabies shots also protect dogs from the SPCA
- CBC.ca - A sled dog owner near Williams Lake has gone to court in an effort to reclaim 50 dogs seized by the SPCA last month *LINK* *PIC*
- Re: CBC.ca - In his petition, Camping says the SPCA's seizure was illegal *PIC*
- Letter to the SPCA's Manager of Cruelty Investigations: How many Camping dogs did the SPCA kill?
- SPCA secrecy is protected from FOI
- I was unaware the BCSPCA was in the CUPE UNION until about 5 years
- I truly hope that the SPCA will NOT kill any dogs due to treatable things
- WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO FLUFFY? SPCA Strategies *LINK*
- We hope this promotion will be more honest than last time.... *LINK*
- Petition to stop the export of Nepalese monkeys to the United States for the purpose of biomedical experimentation *LINK*
- Conservation Officers in B.C.
- The Government itself sells licenses to kill in Alberta and most other provinces
- Conservation Officers DO GOOD Things too!
- Vancouver Aquarium: Dolphin gives birth to dead calf
- 3 more strikes against the Vancouver Aquarium – Stop the Dolphin Slave Trade!
- Re: 3 more strikes against the Vancouver Aquarium – Stop the Dolphin Slave Trade!
- Lawyers demand Parks Board sue the Aquarium over cetaceans bylaw infraction
- No Whales in Captivity pushes for prosecution
- FURTHERMORE....
- Vancouver Courier and the Province: Aquarium watchdogs question legality of dolphins
- Action Alert! Here is what you can do...
- We should hang our heads in shame
- Should the study of human behaviour be done in "viewing" centres and money charged?
- How is the the General Public supposed to Learn when the largest Animal Welfare Agency in the Province Supports the Aquarium?
- Boo the Grizzly escapes his zoo-prison!
- Grizzly's escape into the wilds after sheltered life raises alarm
- SPCA sells dogs with behaviour problems and then tells the owner to kill the dog
- A simple request for help for an elderly patient and her dog
- An opportunity lost
- WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO FLUFFY? SPCA Strategies *LINK*
- To tell some poor person who is devastated their dream dog did not work out to turn around and kill the dog is appalling
- Above the Law and Below the Radar. Kern County, CA Animal Shelters Sued for Violating California State Laws
- Activists block transfer of elephants to Australia
- Big Heart interview in The Scoop *LINK*
- Helena to get her enclosure
- Exotic animals escape scrutiny
- "We didn't know" is an excuse that is used repeatedly by the SPCA
- It is the BC SPCA's business to know about cruelty to animals
- Shawn Eccles replies
- AAS was unreservedly congratulatory *LINK* *PIC*
- The excuse that the Society is simply unaware is very hard to swallow
- I have the records of my complaints to Craig Daniell about two zoos in Armstrong BC *PIC*
- The monkeys are still at Chickadee Ridge
- Are the primates near Duncan, BC, still there? *LINK*
- Critic deems Florida law a bit of a dog's breakfast
- Edmonton: 50 dogs running amok on acreage
- Why does the BC SPCA seize all the animals? *LINK* *PIC*
- Rescuer coaxes owner into letting her remove younger dogs
- Animal control and other groups rescue more dogs
- PETA VICTORY: Welch's Promises to End Deadly Animal Tests! *LINK*
- PETA The Cincinnati Zoo Is Breeding Domestic Cats and Shipping Them Off to a Filthy Lab *LINK*
- Sun June 4th 9pm CTV Movie:Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story
- Risk of cats giving H5N1 to humans is small *LINK*
- Let's get on with eradicating domestic cats, if they are being infected by eating infected birds
- Japanese scientists discover that whales eat fish
- North Vancouver 2nd Bear Killed May 30,2006
- SPCA will charge the Aldergrove Zoo with cruelty over Hazina the Hippo
- Vancouver Sun: Vancouver zoo charged with animal cruelty
- Timing is very odd
- The timing certainly is very odd
- Make sense to me...
- SPCA gave animals to the Greater Vancouver Zoo *LINK*
- GVZoo Animal Health Manager confirms that the SPCA gave the Zoo Marmoset monkeys
- Public scrutiny a good thing
- All I can say is it is about time *PIC*
- There's a message to Telus in this too
- Telus really exploited rabbits in their ads and commercials
- Officials say there's no basis for any type of charge
- Hippo will soon have new digs
- Zoo's care of animals probed
- I wish people could only imagine how they would feel in the same situation
- Perhaps the SPCA feels that dirty mutts hidden in backyards don't tug the heartstrings of the public
- Surrey Leader: Zoo statement
- Dr Bruce Burton, zoo's vet, calls SPCA charges malicious
- SPCA actions can call all its seizures into question
- Vancouver SPCA improves conditions for rabbits *LINK* *PIC*
- Thoughtful, committed rabbit rescuers deserve the credit for these minimal improvements
- Calgary man who killed cat given 27-month prison sentence
- I do hope this innocent soul has not died in vain
- Kyoto poll
- I loved my little Woody
- ACTION ALERT Upcoming Events and Meetings
- Animal Voices Film Festival - June 3 and 4 at the Planetarium
- CHARITY EVENT GOLF COMPETITION FOR AAS *LINK*
- Georgia Straight: Aquarium expansion plans in hot water
- Allow aquarium vote
- Proponents, critics of aquarium expansion clash
- I was there the night they hoisted Bjossa out of her tank and onto a truck. I heard her crying
- Expansion 4 - animals 2. Years of work protecting Stanley Park and captive animals overturned
- BC SPCA Humane Education
- What humane message is there in deer-farming?
- Raccoon meat next?
- By parading game farms as positive models, the SPCA is, unwittingly, joining the crusade against wildlife!
- Promoting any farming without discussing alternatives is partnering in animal exploitation
- PETA uncovers a deer-urine farm *PIC*
- And there it is - raccoons too... *PIC*
- Wildlife in pens is animal welfare?
- SPCA's 7 reasons to hold youth camps
- My daughter has been in two SPCA CAMPS
- Saddening and maddening....
- Does the SPCA educate its staff on the ethics of animal welfare?
- North Shore Outlook 'Bear' Question of the Week
- Beware Of 'Pet Traffickers' Trying To Adopt Your Family Pet
- all too often pets end up being rehomed because they are inconvenient
- Maybe one day we will look back at these times
- Declaration of the Rights of Those Who Live
- Shipping them off to a cold shelter, and not knowing who in the world they'd go to, was never an option
- My wife and I are expecting our first child
- Horse hypocrisy
- Pets police prowling Rome streets
- A Tribute To Elfi Fiala
- BC SPCA feral cat policy
- Killing a rescue group's cats in Prince George
- Using feral cats to train hunting dogs
- No more bull - avian flu and mad cow exposed *LINK* *PIC*
- The state of animal welfare at the BC SPCA
- Abuse of statutory power was warned of in 1994
- Lucy is killed for treatable separation anxiety *PIC*
- I fostered many dogs for the city pound and every dog had some separation anxiety
- EVERY living being that is emotionally attached to someone feels separation anxiety
- Let us not forget the lessons that Cheech taught us
- BC SPCA Cruelty Officers Seize 50 Dogs near Williams Lake
- Williams Lake Tribune: SPCA seizes 50 dogs in area
- Last year about one hundred dogs were seized
- Never any happiness - suffering, then death at the hands of the rescuers *LINK*
- Prince George SPCA spay and neuter clinic prices too high - don't target the right owners
- SPCA Pal Program questioned *PIC*
- SPCA "orphanages"/debunking the SPCA's version of animal welfare
- Parks Board will attempt to limit expansion of animal displays in Stanley Park debate
- Beyond Animal Rights
- Da Veggie Code *LINK* *PIC*
- Exotic Birds Escaping
- Why is the SPCA interested in Snowball's welfare now? *LINK* *PIC*
- Police seek person who fatally hurt dog
- Native spokesman says no Native would do this
- "I believe that the Band Council must be held accountable for the abuse and barbaric animal control policy they have adopted" *LINK*
- I have witnessed abuse so horrendous I don't think I can write about it
- It may be racist to just ignore the reserves
- Within the next two months representatives from Big Heart Rescue will be attending a meeting with Chief and Council
- Impressed with Big Heart Rescue
- Ontario SPCA: Toronto Sun: Peter Worthington: 29 board members resign - want cruelty enforcement taken away
- Humane Society union objects to low euthanasia rates and resents volunteers who help with animals
- "Government should step in and control inspections, investigations and prosecutions for abuse and cruelty."
- Directors urge the government to intervene, suspend bylaws and board, and investigate
- Happy Cat Haven in Gibsons CatWalk June 4th
- Watching a rodeo 'not my idea of a good time'
- Cloverdale Rodeo defended
- I think calling a rodeo a cultural event is quite a stretch
- Who is this lady fooling?
- SPCA urges a boycott of the rodeo
- Now that this is popular....
- Rodeo and the Cancer Society
- Globe and Mail: Rodeo spurs animal-rights furor
- The well-being of rodeo livestock is the top priority
- The BC SPCA should be treating all Rodeos the same
- Rodeo: Proud tradition or cruel spectacle?
- Cloverdale Rodeo wasn't very entertaining -- a movie might be a better bet next time
- Animals at the rodeo would agree with Mike
- Just when we thought progress was possible - dogs to be on Iowa 'livetock' list
- USDA Classifies Rabbits as Poultry
- Britain to ban all seal skin imports *LINK*
- Christie Blatchford of the National Post buy a purebred puppy
- John van Dongen protests over court costs he says are owed by SPCA *PIC*
- Women in abusive relationship who won't leave their husbands due to their dogs.
- The SPCA's Violence Link Project *LINK*
- The Nanaimo SPCA
- We take all pets at our transition house in North Vancouver (SAGE House)
- Victoria Greater Victoria Animals' Crusaders is helping women fleeing violence
- Vote in Eagleridge Bluffs poll
- Fat cats, Pudgy pugs *PIC*
- Your immediate help is needed to secure Wenka’s release along with 14 other chimpanzees born in the 1950s who are still held at labs *LINK*
- Prince George Citizen: council won't adopt anit-circus bylaw
- Gwen Wilson - Thank you everyone who donated to her vet's fund and an update *LINK* *PIC*
- Gwen deserves an award!
- SPCA life member questions the SPCA's leadership
- After decades of fear, are we loving orcas to death?
- Big Heart Rescue Gala Fundraiser May 12th!
- A new eagle nest near Victoria is expected to relieve the broken hearts of millions of Internet surfers
- Come to a rodeo protest
- Aquarium getting maternity ward ready for baby dolphin: 3 orcas and 3 belugas have been born at the Aquarium, only one survived
- Dolphins call each other by name *LINK*
- Why do we do this to these poor animals?
- Vancouver Sun: Vegans and style
- The Five Freedoms, the SPCA, and garage dogs
- "The officer reported that the dog was healthy, the garage is like a big doghouse"
- I had a very nice policeman at my door the following day...
- It's not unusual for police to remove dogs at night *PIC*
- "A garage is no different than a home" *LINK* *PIC*
- The degree of suffering does not appear to always be the deciding factor in SPCA seizures *LINK* *PIC*
- Jane Goodall's "Ten Trusts"
- Defining cruelty: it's all over the map *LINK* *PIC*
- Today another call will be made and another day will pass and another month will pass...
- Prince of Denmark loves his dogs -- um, well done
- Rescued cat killed by the SPCA raises questions of secrecy and lack of care
- Sometimes only a bit of help gives a cat a new lease on life
- Simple policy changes could have prevented this
- I have sat on the sidelines and watched the SPCA for more years than I can name
- In Victoria, the pound, the police, and Greater Victoria Animal Crusaders are partnering to do real animal welfare: Logan the bunny *LINK* *PIC*
- The CRD Pound, GVAC, and Sunny *LINK* *PIC*
- The Ministry of Environment decided from the start that they would not want to release Helena
- What is most disturbing is the SPCA's lack of explanation and communication
- Too risky to free cougar
- Put the humans who are afraid of the animals in cages and set Helena free!
- Soon there will be no more dangerous species except ours
- This article implies Helena's "rescuers" have not attempted relocation elsewhere
- Well said!
- Transferring dogs from remote SPCA's is a good thing
- BLM asks ranchers to buy wild horses *LINK* *PIC*
- Preventing Extinction before it begins *LINK*
- Donations follow the work
- From Ontario's Better Farming magazine: A judge, two police officers and some respected farmers have levelled a litany of allegations against the OSPCA *LINK*
- SPCA raids lead to bizarre confrontations on a Cambridge farm *LINK*
- A sheep breeder’s dream that turned to nightmare *LINK*
- The SPCA ‘worked me over pretty good’ *LINK*
- Judge dismisses Hamilton cruelty case out of hand *LINK*
- Anatomy of a humane society feud *LINK*
- The OSPCA defends itself against ‘slanderous’ posters *LINK*
- Letter to the Editor: What about the ruined lives, the legal and emotional cost?
- Letter to the Editor: Needed: a farm animal welfare enforcement system
- Letter to the Editor: The OSPCA – a ‘made-in-Ontario’ solution is needed
- More animal rights cartoons! *NM* *LINK* *PIC*
- Chained dogs cartoons *NM* *LINK* *PIC*
- Take your pets with you!
- Big Heart Rescue and Disaster Response *PIC*
- Animal Voices Film Festival: Planatarium: June 3rd and 4th
- Lauchlan’s Rodeo Protest May 21 and 22
- Eagleridge Bluff Protest: unprecedented scare tactics by the provincial government regarding personal liability
- There could be no better memorial for Jane than to join supporters at Eagleridge Bluffs." Ned Jacobs
- Betty Krawczyk - Your children will be proud of you
- Surrey News: Protesters want watchdog on SPCA *PIC*
- More cartoons >> *LINK* *PIC*
- The truth is coming out - mad cow contamination much more wide-spread than politicians and the meat industry admit
- I am vegetarian, and it is organic for my family when they eat meat
- Stella needs a home: web page and video *LINK* *PIC*
- Battle of bearskin busbies sends fur flying in Britain
- Government announces spotted-owl rescue plan
- Manitoba Woman fined $15,000 for starving dogs
- Historic vote bans foie gras in Chicago! *LINK* *PIC*
- Wolf packs boom after sterility experiment fails
- Captive Cougar Needs Home or She will be Killed
- Helena the cougar will be euthanized if a new habitat cannot be built for her in time
- This is a horrible situation
- Donations for orphaned cougar may spring her from death row
- Action Alerts for No Whales in Captivity
- Animals in the wild webcam sites
- April 24th is World Day for Animals in the Laboratory
- UK condemned as 'animal experiment capital' of Europe *LINK*
- Poco environmental committee recommends no more trapping and drowning of beavers *LINK*
- Tri-City News: Chair of the city’s environmental protection committee, said the letter-writing campaign has resulted in “nothing but misinformation”
- 'KFC Tortures Chicks Protest' Friday, April 28, Davie and Thurlow
- Pick your favourite Hollywood vegetarian *LINK*
- I remember 20 years ago when I went vegetarian
- The West Ain't Big Enough: Killing Grey Wolves *LINK*
- Vernon Morningstar: Bunnies go under the knife *LINK* *PIC*
- Shows what you can do with not much money, and some work
- 'Hard to pack up a barn full of animals'-Domestic abuse protection extended to pets. *LINK* *PIC*
- Nanaimo Harbour City Star: Big Heart Rescue work on the Bella Bella reserve
- Cowichan News Leader: Big Heart Rescue has been rescuing badly abused, neglected and abandoned dogs for five years
- Say cheese! *PIC*
- New Bear Conservation Group for BC *LINK*
- Selling chicks at Kingsgate Mall
- Greenpeace attacks McDonalds over Brazilian rainforest
- Fraser fish kill linked to gravel operation
- Gov't permit under fire for salmon deaths
- Hopping Mad at Rabbits
- Burgeoning bunny problem has Alberta town in a lather
- Ashley Fruno will do almost anything to draw attention to animal suffering
- Good for Ashley Fruno!
- Re: Good for Ashley Fruno!
- Please vote against the barbaric seal hunt
- It's not a 'hunt', it's a slaughter
- Complaint to the BC SPCA re live crab and lobster sales *PIC*
- Dying crabs at Super Store
- Lethbridge research centre "home" to 2,000 rats
- Calgary cat hoarder raided
- A profile of an animal hoarder *LINK*
- Defaming the dying *LINK*
- Birds in filthy cages for sale at Art Knapp's in Surrey *PIC*
- Write, fax, or phone to voice your concern
- Never again will we purchase anything that came from this company
- I spoke with the store manager
- Re: Birds in filthy cages for sale at Art Knapp's in Surrey
- Whether the cages are clean or dirty is only a matter of degree of their imprisonment
- Why doesn't the SPCA condemn keeping birds in cages?
- New York City cat finally freed after being stuck in wall for 14 days
- Nelson Launches BC SPCA's First Storefront Adoption Centre
- The message to the public is at best a mixed message *LINK*
- Surrey Now: The Surrey SPCA is urging people to think before they buy that little white Easter bunny
- First rabbits are product at the SPCA's partner, Petcetera, and then they are product at SPCAs *PIC*
- "Assorted" rabbits on sale at Petcetera *LINK* *PIC*
- Comox SPCA also: same thing every year
- While Petcetera sells baby rabbits SPCA adult rabbit languishes
- Nanaimo SPCA stats and stories *LINK*
- Re: Nanaimo SPCA stats and stories *LINK*
- Re: Nanaimo SPCA stats and stories *LINK*
- Re: Nanaimo SPCA stats and stories *LINK*
- BCVMA prevents farriers from doing traditional tooth-leveling in horses
- The Gwen Wilson story - Cat rescuer raided by the SPCA *LINK* *PIC*
- Ex-SPCA agent defends Gwen *LINK*
- Letter from Marcie Moriarty, General Manager, Cruelty Investigations, BC SPCA *LINK*
- In her own words: Gwen's side of the story *PIC*
- Where was the prevention of cruelty in seizing Gwen's animals?
- So many questions....
- Vernon rabbit rescue on CHBC TV
- Rabbits in Paradise? *PIC*
- New Zealand plans Easter bunny hunt
- Nicholas Read: 1999: Are rabbits food or companions?
- “Nature Trail to Hell?”
- Vernon Morningstar: June 2004: Bunnies abound neighbourhood
- No help from the SPCA then, no help now *LINK*
- Lab seeks to experiment on endangered species - Rare monkey may hold clues to AIDS vaccine
- The Eagle has landed! Zoos could be a thing of the past.
- LIFEFORCE ANNIVERSARY: 25 Years of Progress *LINK* *PIC*
- Poster your neighbourhood with the Canadian Vivisection Poster
- Drinking with 70,000 prisoners: this is how the Vancouver Aquarium celebrates
- Eeewwww! And they will be EATING FISH too!
- Dog Days of Business *PIC*
- I've brought my dog into the classroom a number of times
- Vote YES to banning Canada's seal hunt *LINK*
- Fishing cartoon *LINK* *PIC*
- CatSnip in Victoria *LINK* *PIC*
- Rest in Peace Sadie. For a short while you were much loved *LINK*
- God bless the people who showed you love for the first time in your life
- Dr Moe Milstein: Even with the best intentions, keeping reptiles as pets taxes the abilities of most people
- 'Shocking' farms raise pigs for UK
- Falcons,Chickens &Avian Flu *LINK*
- Cathy Kangas Offers $16 Million to End Seal Hunt
- Elusive reptile's ecosystem in grave danger
- Thanks, but I'll pass on the in-vitro meatloaf
- New Maine Law Shields Animals in Domestic Violence Cases
- Districts of North and West Vancouver about to kill dog walking by making it economically unfeasible
- There is some hypocrisy in this report
- LAPS and AAS partner for Tommy *PIC*
- And then there was Cheech *PIC*
- How many of the BC SPCA's branches have ever participated in an action like this over the last 50 years?
- Chilliwack SPCA turning cats away, doesn't have enough food
- This year's unwanted cats were produced by last year's unspayed cats
- The public does not realize how many kittens can be produced over the summer
- The Quebec City zoo closed Friday, throwing polar bears, parrots and peacocks into an uncertain future
- "No one will accept non-medical euthanasia"
- Vancouver Sun: Economically and rationally, the seal hunt isn't worth it
- Boycott all cruelty, not just our seal hunt
- Journalist says Japanese hunt dolphins for food
- Grossly unfair treatment of observers and the unjustifiable protection of the sealers. Here are some things you can do to help
- Pamela Anderson hosts Juno Awards and renews call to end seal hunt *PIC*
- Good for Pam
- Shadow was "rescued" during the interior firestorms and has been moved from pillar to post ever since *LINK* *PIC*
- The city of Vienna wants dog-owners licenced
- Our meddling is driving intelligent animals crazy
- Parrot Auction Elicits Some Squawks *PIC*
- She chose the dog - a CatSnip story *LINK* *PIC*
- They were lucky to be able to find a new home where they could take their dog and cats
- We are a family and we will stay that way
- Test-tube meat on CBC
- I'm very much in favour of scientists growing meat
- Preventing extinction before it begins *LINK*
- Pamela Anderson asks you to sign PETA's seal hunt petition *LINK*
- Canada has placed itself alongside China as the cruelest and most self-serving nation
- Pamela Anderson has become the second bombshell actress to speak out against the East Coast seal hunt
- URGENT! Chained dog will be taken to the SPCA unless we rehome him today! *LINK* *PIC*
- Duke is safe! *PIC*
- Well done AAS and a huge thanks to Jan who now has Duke
- The seal hunt - CBC wants your comment
- Beer parlour boors!
- P.R. person or firm needed for AAS
- CatSnip a great success in Vernon *LINK* *PIC*
- Animal-lovers in Vernon looking for better care for their community's animals *PIC*
- Vernon Morningstar newspaper article *LINK*
- An interview with ex-Vernon SPCA employee Amber Gordon *NM*
- SPCA's 2001 Community Consultation report recommended "getting out of animal control"
- Vernon Morning Star: Mar 26/06: Demands to reform animal care services in the North Okanagan appear to be gathering some momentum *LINK*
- New SPCA "Wing and a Paw" Program Helps Homeless Animals
- Many thanks to PCA!
- First Nations Program . . . The Work Gets Done ! *LINK*
- Kwikwaystway Pet Program *LINK*
- Big Heart Rescue conducts a very similar program in the small isolated First Nation communities of Bella Bella, Shearwater and Klemtu
- SPCA seeking new director for Upper Island position
- I find it truly remarkable that the SPCA team of 16 is able to complete all the needed business tasks required in this time frame
- SPCA considers running for-profit boarding
- Logic is questioned
- SPCA's Compassionate Board form
- Board at $20 a day all that was offered
- Where will they put these little money-makers?
- The BC SPCA should be helping these animals before even considering For-Profit Boarding
- The SPCA is telling us the they have lots of space to now house private boarders?
- Women escaping violence were promised those spaces for their pets!
- Don't you love happy endings! *PIC*
- VOTE YES TO END THE SEAL HUNT *LINK*
- I Am Your Dog
- "The Apparition"
- Q.C. van Dongen sues the SPCA in Abbotsford Provincial Court
- Van Dongens battling SPCA
- More opposition to beaver trapping in Coquitlam
- AAS funds $7900 in Community Partnerships for Animals so far this year
- SPCA puts $3000 into the pot in the Comox Valley
- This initiative lacks not only substance but it also lacks common sense and compassion
- The poor can't or won't pay anything, especially Natives
- SPCA/Cat Advocates request $6000 from the Comox Stathcona Regional District *LINK*
- SPCA's 2001 Community Consultation report on feral cats
- Feral cat groups have often felt the wrath of the SPCA, but not much cooperation from the SPCA *LINK*
- Ex-SPCA Constable starts animal ambulance business
- Robert Light (AKA Bobbie Beluga) leaflet outside the Aquarium for a couple of hours this Saturday night
- Rabbits are not for kids *PIC*
- Just check out the many shelters, parks, and rescue organizations that are overflowing with discarded “pet” rabbits
- A number of animal welfare organizations are trying to educate the public about this sort of stereotyping
- Children under 8 years old should never handle a rabbit
- Kunekune pigs bred for pets in Britain
- All product has to be disposed of once it is no longer wanted for any reason
- The type of person who is at the money-making end of the pet-treadmill: In her own words *LINK*
- Mutts understands *NM* *PIC*
- Rabbits in cages -- dogs on chains
- Cat licensing in Calgary
- Panic drives Eastern European dog purge *LINK*
- Bamboo the Asian elephant being shuffled between zoos rather than going to sanctuary *PIC*
- North Shore News: Cat's injuries deliberate, cruel *LINK* *PIC*
- Kindness extends to people, animals: Maynard's riding stables
- If only the world were full of more people like this
- Researcher calls for more stringent regulation
- Critics have claws out for procedure
- Woman accused of stabbing dog wants pet back
- KFC Leafleters Needed- April/ Seal hunt letters and calls needed
- From one tree, a community grew
- Teenage girls embrace vegetarianism *LINK*
- Vancouver leads the country in vegetarian dining options
- Best Friends Bunny Rescue 06 *LINK* *PIC*
- Body Shop sells to L'Oreal
- Educated consumers
- Tom's of Maine Sells to Colgate
- Listen and object! CBC radio's Early Edition - Chinese food market are good for a giggle
- What has the SPCA ever done? *LINK* *PIC*
- Photos from AAS investigation *PIC*
- Dying fish are a joke *PIC*
- AAS rescued three lucky turtles *PIC*
- Barry Faires is being sued by the massive BC SPCA *LINK*
- Letter to Early Edition
- If I can arrange a quaint "ethnic" bear-baiting contest would you like to come and check it out for the CBC?
- I personally don't find it amusing to see any creatures suffering for the sake of "freshness" be it chickens, ducks or EVEN EELS
- Thank God I no longer eat meat
- Cruelty towards other living beings runs through all our cultures
- Iceland thinks that it is entitled to continue to murder whales
- End the rough ride for farm animals - new Canadian laws in the works?
- I have been a Canadian citizen for 28 years and I still am ashamed of the way Canadians treat their native animals
- I attended the Seal Slaughter Protest today at the DFO on Burrard street where 40 plus demonstrators voiced your exact same sentiments
- Well said, Manon!
- Jack 103.1 FM and Ocean 98.5 FM partner with Big Heart Rescue in a fabulous fundraiser! *LINK* *PIC*
- Gail Moerkerken is being sued by the massive BC SPCA
- Action Alerts - things you can do!
- Protest the seal hunt before it begins again: Phone Prime Minister Harper (613) 992-4211
- Salt Spring Island CatSnip Campaign *LINK* *PIC*
- Port Alberni SPCA follows the lead
- CatSnip in Victoria
- Free spay/neuter offered by the Langley Animal Shelter *LINK*
- CatSnip in Vernon
- Sharing the load
- Greater Victoria Animal Crusaders spay/neuter assistance is year-round *PIC*
- From September 05 - January 06 a total of 465 animals were helped
- Salt Spring SPCA gets on the bandwagon!
- SPCA Strategic Plan directive re First Nations Humane Education
- Inquiry for details not answered by the SPCA
- BHR wants this information to complement its humane rescue and spay/neuter work on the Bella Bella reserve
- Henry Bergh, founder of the ASPCA in America, believed that operating a pound could conflict with the society’s role as an advocate for animals.
- Universal Declaration of Animal Rights *LINK*
- UDAR signed at UNECSO House 1978: a philosophical stance on the relationship that must now be established between the human species and other species
- Animal Shelter in Harbutowice Poland *LINK* *PIC*
- Re: Animal Shelter in Harbutowice Poland
- Animal captivity is all about the money, not the science *LINK*
- Vicious dogs are still allowed in the City of North Vancouver, but owners must meet new regulations to get their license
- Luna the orphaned whale feared dead after being hit by tugboat *PIC*
- Lifeforce Press Release: Luna dies in Red Sea of political correctness *LINK*
- Relocation -- or death
- Some finger DFO, others blame native group
- Lose the emotion over an animal
- I would like Mr. Perry to define "wild"
- Child couldn't find his way home
- Politics doomed orca's chances
- Dog walking contentious on the North Shore *PIC*
- Maddie's Fund: Defining What it Means to Have a Model Shelter *LINK*
- Maddie's Fund: Funding Animal Control *LINK*
- Maddie's Fund: What is a Treatable Shelter Pet? *LINK*
- SF SPCA shelter rates 8 out of 10, BC SPCA shelters rate a 2 out of 10
- Although they now provide dogs with little beds, this is not much comfort
- "Grey Menace" in todays Times Colonist
- Original Article from March 5 *PIC*
- Grey squirrels are a tasty snack
- If it has a pulse, it deserves respect
- A plague of rats is coming
- Like Clover and Boepple I would say that they lack any mind at all
- Llama not allowed under Calgary's proposed Responsible Pet Ownership Bylaw
- The SPCA has defined itself by the choices it has made
- Law on animal abuse urged in China
- Goodbye, Brigadier: About 1,400 attend service *PIC*
- Austrian cats, Polish swans test positive for avian flu *PIC*
- Charlie the cat went through 7 years of hell
- Post-Disaster Health Risks
- Peace Arch News: SPCA's new manager seeks a better future *LINK*
- Give me a break...who in their right mind would be 'bragging' about those cold, concrete floors as being a 'home'
- Killing rabbits seems not to count as killing
- Isolation of rabbits at the Surrey SPCA not a humane education model *LINK* *PIC*
- Another observer comments
- Reader questions if the City of Surrey is going to be better served in future by its dog contol contractor
- New Surrey manager has big plans
- Man Arrested After Routine Visit from SPCA
- Letter to the Editor, The Morning Star, Sunday, March 5, 2006
- Pyper the Golden needs a home *LINK* *PIC*
- Port Coquitlam councilor says only the "frenzied fringe" think drowning beavers is cruel *LINK*
- I requested the mayor and council watch unedited footage of a beaver as she slowly drowns in a Conibear trap
- Would you put your pet kitten in a trap and drown it?
- The SPCA is in a conflict position in Port Coquitlam
- A letter you can copy and send if you haven't time to write your own (best)
- Drowning is not a humane way to die
- Cartoonist weighs in *PIC*
- Leave It To The Beavers:Tips for a Peaceful Coexistence with Beavers *LINK*
- Some facts about traps and suffering,from the "frenzied fringe" *LINK*
- Cruelty to animals is just that, no matter whose jurisdiction those animals fall under
- Dog's Death Sparks Debate Over Trapping
- List of Non-Target Animals & Humans Trapped by Body Gripping Traps
- When we have a clear case of cruelty to animals, such as this, the SPCA hasn't been heard from.
- BCSPCA policy on trapping
- Drown the raccoon in a bathtub was the Coquitlam SPCA's advice
- Mayor Scott Young: The City has undertaken a number of methods in an attempt to manage beavers in various water sheds throughout the community
- Letter to the Tri-City News
- Re: Port Coquitlam councilor says only the "frenzied fringe" think drowning beavers is cruel
- Coquitlam Now: Why is it that city councils allow subdivisions to be built so close to a known beaver habitat in the first place?
- International Day of Action - Canadian Seal Slaughter Protest
- Breed Specific Legislation *LINK*
- ANIMAL PEOPLE does not favor killing or confiscating pit bull terriers
- Two lost worlds give us hope *LINK*
- Getting there... watching the SPCA pull up its socks - at least in Maple Ridge if not all of BC *PIC*
- Getting there... watching the SPCA pull up its socks in Abbotsford *PIC*
- I have never met a dog who likes his or her dog house
- The BC SPCA leaks a damning report on the CRD pound in Victoria
- How did this investigation report get to the public - unprotected by FOI?
- Re: How did this investigation report get to the public - unprotected by FOI?
- Don Brown, Chief Bylaw Officer responds
- "DMP" defends his wife "Mackenzie"
- Much good can be done with this report *LINK* *PIC*
- Re: Much good can be done with this report
- The night person is in the building until 12am but basically never goes into the dog area
- BC SPCA Kennel Inspection Report on the CRD Pound: February 14/06
- Errors and omissions in the report
- Ex-Hawthorne circus elephants in their new home at the Tennessee Sanctuary! *PIC*
- The move will put John Cuneo, 74, out of the elephant training and rental business after 48 years *LINK*
- Snowmobiles threaten grizzlies and wolverines
- McCartney, wife join battle against seal hunting
- Vote in seal hunt poll *LINK*
- My kind of numbers!
- Furbearers - Fur trade dying; it’s time to let it go
- Thin ice might stall McCartney
- The annual seal hunt off the East Coast is a "stain on the character of the Canadian people *PIC*
- Keep the slaughter out of our sight
- Exposed! Australian Live Exports to Egypt Suspended After Cruelty Is Revealed in Slaughterhouse *LINK*
- Cat licensing discussion on CKNW *LINK*
- Paws for Life Adoption Fair in Victoria a smashing success! *LINK* *PIC*
- Most pounds cannot even do business the way they used to
- British pets lobby for a Bill of Rights
- Moe Milstein, Vancouver Sun: Police dogs and the special bond
- Doggie Dictionary
- A Comparison: Rabbit Welfare at the SPCA and at the District of North Vancouver *LINK* *PIC*
- Re: A Comparison: Rabbit Welfare at the SPCA and at the District of North Vancouver
- "We have decided to let her have the puppies". *LINK* *PIC*
- Update *LINK* *PIC*
- Nursing is very hard on any dog!
- The original information regarding Angie and her puppies *LINK* *PIC*
- AAS E-NEW BULLETIN - February 2006 *LINK* *PIC*
- I cried as I watched the video of Alfie the golden retriever and Willy the German Shepherd
- The SPCA is asking the province for tougher animal cruelty laws and I can only hope that yard dogs are on the list
- Proposed cat licensing in Calgary
- Re: Proposed cat licensing in Calgary
- SPCA planning to build new local facility in Coquitlam
- SPCA claims to "work with " the animal welfare community in BC
- SPCA strikes Boxer Rescue from its "approved" list
- Boxer Rescue responds to SPCA allegation of defamation
- You can not sue us all, and you will not win
- Crown Counsel has laid multiple charges of animal cruelty against the owner/operators of Big Dog Rescue