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Kamloops Spca
A puppy needs your help
KAMLOOPS – His name is Rocky and he could really use your help. The 3 month old puppy was brought into the Kamloops SPCA Saturday morning. He has an obstruction and he’ll have to have surgery to survive. The surgery doesn’t come cheap. The estimated cost of the life saving procedure is between $1,500 and...
SPCA feeling cost of illness-filled year
KAMLOOPS — After four months of full to partial closures, lime dips and quarantines the last cat has been spayed, and with that the local SPCA branch is officially ringworm free and ready to move on. The second round of ringworm, which was really a delayed continuation of the first round, only hit a few...
Dogs, horses seized from Clearwater property
KAMLOOPS — The B.C. SPCA says special constables have seized 16 badly neglected dogs and two horses from a rural property in Clearwater. Senior animal protection officer Kent Kokoska says the standard poodle cross golden retrievers were filthy and severely matted and were living in unacceptable conditions while the quarter horses were found in substandard...
Nine animals under quarantine at SPCA
ROUND TWO WITH RINGWORM KAMLOOPS – Staff at the local branch of the B.C. SPCA are waiting with bated breath for the latest ringworm test results after a dog received a late diagnosis last week. Animal Care Supervisor Sarah Gerow says a dog was tested three weeks ago and after two weeks the cultures did not...
SPCA goes another round with ringworm
QUARANTINE BACK IN EFFECT KAMLOOPS – Less than two weeks after finally opening following a ringworm outbreak, the local branch of the SPCA has had to quarantine the dogs and a cat room once again due to the infection. This afternoon the shelter got word another dog tested positive for ringworm, forcing the quarantine. A...
Break-in devastating for SPCA
KAMLOOPS – It isn’t the way staff and volunteers at the Kamloops SPCA wanted to spend Victoria Day, assessing and cleaning up the damage from an overnight break-in. RCMP say they were called to the shelter at 6:30 a.m. to find thieves had smashed in the front door. Sgt. Michael Buxton-Carr says it appears the...
Help these kittens get the care they need
KAMLOOPS - While staff and volunteers at the local B.C. SPCA branch rally to work towards the goal of $40,000 in the City Challenge fundraiser, several cats in dire need of special, and expensive, care have come into the shelter recently, increasing the need for those funds even more. Wesley came in with a fractured...
SPCA readies for largest fundraiser of year
KAMLOOPS — Books, barbecues and balls will highlight May for the local B.C. SPCA branch as the shelter takes on Prince George in the annual City Challenge, the largest fundraiser of the year for the Kamloops branch. The pressure is on for staff as well. Not only has Prince George beat Kamloops the past two...
Puppy survives being shot with pellets
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN — A puppy is recovering in Salmon Arm after being found with multiple pellet-shot wounds near Niskonlith Lake. The four-month-old German shepherd puppy was found by a couple people walking their dogs. “Some individuals out walking their dogs by Nisquanles Lake earlier this month saw the puppy cowering under a bush,” says B.C. SPCA...
Chocolate is better when it comes to bunnies
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN — Easter is just around the corner and for those of you trying to figure out what to get the kids this holiday the B.C. SPCA wants you to think stuffed and chocolate rabbits, not live ones. Live rabbits, chicks and ducks do not make good Easter gifts, and often go neglected soon after...
Kamloops cat strangler found guilty
KAMLOOPS — A Kamloops man was found guilty of causing pain, suffering or injury to an animal after he admitted to strangling his cat out of anger and frustration. Kamloops Provincial Court Judge Christopher Cleaveley said he did not believe Steven Seidel, 28, strangled Oreo the cat out of lack of options, but out of...
He strangled the cat to protect girlfriend, save money
KAMLOOPS — A Kamloops man who admitted to strangling his cat for peeing on the floor, was in court today facing several animal cruelty related charges. Steven Seidel, 28, admitted in Kamloops Provincial Court today to strangling his cat, Oreo, on March 14, 2013, out of concern for his pregnant girlfriend. “I just grabbed him...
Large SPCA fundraiser ready to roll
KAMLOOPS - One of the key fundraisers for the local SPCA branch is less than three weeks away and organizers say they have faith the people of Kamloops will once again come through for the shelter. “They always seem to go smoothly, you have to have faith,” Michelle Virdee says of fundraisers. “The people of...
Group wants stiffer penalties to help protect pooches
KAMLOOPS - A group of citizens, veterinarians and local business owners are asking the city to implement heavy fines for leaving a dog in a vehicle during hot or cold weather. A bylaw in Calgary, which allows bylaw officers to check inside temperatures using an infrared thermometers, is pointed to as a good example of...
City wants bylaw officers to have more power to protect dogs
KAMLOOPS - Hot dogs, cold dogs and loose dogs — city council wants to give bylaw officers the authority to deal with them all. “This is more complicated than just breaking windows,” Coun. Ken Christian says. “You can’t legislate against stupidity and we keep trying to do that, and we keep trying to do that...