BC SPCA Tri-Cities

06/26/2025

💥Mark your calendars — Wildlife-in-Focus is back!
Our annual photography contest celebrating wildlife in B.C. runs from July 2-22, and this is your one-week reminder to prepare!

📷 Get your cameras ready, the top winners will be featured on limited edition products and all photos support advocacy work for wildlife across the province, so make sure to submit your best shot!

💗 Tell your friends and family so they are ready to vote for your photo!

06/24/2025

🌊 This year’s theme for World Ocean Day is ‘sustainable fishing means more’. 🌊 This highlights the importance of sustainable fishing practices, like eliminating ‘ghost gear’. Ghost gear is abandoned or lost fishing gear that becomes dangerous pieces of trash contributing to harm in the ocean.

By reducing problematic plastics in the ocean, helping entangled animals, participating in clean-up efforts and supporting sustainable fisheries, you can make a big difference!

The ocean and the animals who live there need our help.
Learn more at: ️https://spca.bc.ca/news/keeping-coast-clear/

06/22/2025

Loving animals the way you do is a gift! Get ready and stay ahead of seasonal wildlife events to help protect pets and wild animals!

Check out the seasonal wildlife calendar and:

🛑 Prevent risky encounters

🚫 Avoid unwanted wild guests at your home

💖 Keep everyone safe and thriving for the rest of the year!

https://animalkind.ca/wildlife-coexisting-calendar/

06/20/2025

💕 HIGH PAWS to AH, a compassionate and determined young girl, whom embarked on a heartfelt mission to support the BC SPCA by selling cookies to her classmates. She meticulously found the perfect recipe, created a shopping list, and baked the cookies herself. To raise awareness, AH produced a short video about the BC SPCA and designed eye-catching posters to advertise her sale. Her dedication and hard work paid off, as she successfully raised $125.35 and brought 3 very soft blankets for the animals!

Thank you AH. Your initiative not only showcased fantastic baking skills as well as your sincere commitment to helping animals in need. 🐾🍪

Do you know a child who would like to take action for animals?
Visit www.spca.bc.ca/kids for ideas!

06/18/2025

It’s BC Pet Registry’s 10-Year Anniversary! 🎉
We’re celebrating with stories like Coco’s — now we want to hear from YOU!

Has your pet’s microchip/tattoo helped bring them home? Share your reunion story via the link below and be part of our anniversary celebration. 🐾

When Coco, a 15-year-old teacup Yorkie, went missing near a busy street and river, her guardian feared the worst. Weighing just five pounds and struggling with poor eyesight and fading hearing, Coco was especially vulnerable to the dangers of traffic, wildlife, and the surrounding area. What followe...

06/18/2025

Thank you so much to everyone who came out to support LOCK-IN FOR LOVE this weekend! You helped us raise over $7,000 for the Tri-Cities BC SPCA! 🐶🐱🐰

To everyone who participated in person and online- our community, our donors, staff and volunteers - the animals thank you for all your love and support! 🐾

Missed the event? Donations are still being accepted to the team: https://lockin.spca.bc.ca/team/1822/155

06/15/2025

🚨 A 126% Surge in Calls! 🚨
Last weekend, the BC SPCA saw a 126% increase in reports of dogs left in hot cars. This is a serious and preventable danger.

With temperatures rising across the province, the BC SPCA is urging the public to remember the serious risks associated with leaving pets in hot vehicles.⁠
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Even a few minutes in a hot car can be life-threatening for animals. Dogs don’t sweat to cool themselves down like humans do, which causes their body temperature to rise more rapidly. And every dog is different. Certain dogs, like senior pets, those with underlying health conditions and those with flatter faces, experience even more challenges in hot weather.⁠
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If you see an animal in a hot car showing signs of distress (exaggerated panting or no panting at all, salivating, an anxious or staring expression, muscle tremors or lack of coordination, convulsions, vomiting, collapse), call your local animal control agency, police department or RCMP, or the BC SPCA Animal Helpline at 1-855-622-7722 as soon as possible.⁠

💡 Please don't risk it. If you can't take your dog with you, it's safer to leave them at home.

👉 Learn how to protect animals from heat-related emergencies and pledge to keep pets safe this summer: https://spca.bc.ca/help-keep-pets-safe-this-summer/

06/14/2025

As we celebrate the final day of Lock-In for Love, our team at the Tri-Cities BC SPCA is incredibly grateful to this community. Our dedicated fundraisers are "locking-in" at the centre today while they make a final push to raise funds for the animals. We're so close to reaching our goal of $5000 for animals in Tri-Cities.

With the increasingly complex animal cases we're seeing, anything you can spare to help the animals in our care would mean so much. If you would like to send your compassion and love to the animals in our care here, please consider donating to our Centre team today: https://lockin.spca.bc.ca/team/1822/155/

Your kindness today can provide shelter, medical care and behavioural support for our most vulnerable furry guests. Thank you so much for all your love and support! 💗

Will you join our animal rescue mission? Kind-hearted people like you make it possible for animals to be given a second chance by the BC SPCA’s compassionate caregivers. A chance to lov...

06/13/2025

🐾 A HUGE thank you to the amazing students and families of Queen of All Saints School. The school's SPCA Club spent the year learning all about animals. what the BC SPCA does, and a spectrum of animal-related topics. To showcase what they learned, they put on a very special Fair Day on May 1st for the entire school to attend.

We are incredibly grateful to these compassionate and hardworking students—and their wonderful teacher, Ms. Chavez—for raising an outstanding $2560 in support of the Tri-Cities BC SPCA and the animals in our care! Every dollar raised helps us provide shelter, medical care, and love to animals who need it the most. 🐶🐱🐰

A very special shout-out and thank you to the Grade 7 students who will be moving on after this year. They have been outstanding role models for the club and help to build so much excitement for the younger students who are eager to join the club in Grade 4.

Thank you all for being true champions for the animals! ❤

06/11/2025

🦌A ‘fawn’-tastic ending
This fawn was brought to us after being hit by a car, and after several days in care healing from head and other internal trauma, this brave fawn was ready to go back to their mom.

Reuniting fawns is often difficult as mothers will only respond to their own babies and time is of the essence. Our expert team was ready for the task and quickly tracked down this fawn’s mother. At the right place and at the right time, the fawn immediately ran up to the doe, and our team was thrilled to witness this beautiful reunion. 💖

This fawn needed Wild ARC’s help to recover, but not all fawns that are left alone do! Learn how to tell when a fawn needs help:
https://spca.bc.ca/news/prevent-fawn-napping/

06/11/2025

Do you have any books for children ages 5-13 that you would like to pass on? The Tri-Cities SPCA is looking for some more reading materials for our "Book Buddies" program.
Please drop them off at 1-2565 Barnet Hwy between 10:30am-5:30pm.
For more information on our Book Buddies Program, visit:
https://spca.bc.ca/locations/tri-cities/

06/09/2025

Have you adopted from the BC SPCA?
If so, we want to hear your adoption stories!
Submit your happy tale online here:

We love to hear from our furry friends and their families about life after the BC SPCA. Your story could be shared on our website and through social media.