With greater than 400 wildfires nonetheless burning throughout the province, the BC SPCA continues to supply help for animals and guardians in want. To date, now we have helped by:
- Providing non permanent emergency pet boarding to 147 animals, with 45 pets nonetheless in our care.
- Transferring all adoptable animals out of the impacted communities’ animal centres to make sure there was room for these emergency boardings.
- Answering 64 requires assist from behind the fireplace traces, which means roughly 207 animals of evacuated households have acquired crucial meals, water, and a focus whereas their households have been away. Of the 64 calls, 14 are nonetheless receiving ongoing help.
- Accepting, organizing, and transporting numerous truckloads of beneficiant donations from group members so the BC SPCA might present pet meals and provides, akin to kitty litter, crates and varied linens, to wildfire evacuees.
The province-wide state of emergency stays in place till not less than September 14. While the specter of wildfires stays ever-present, the BC SPCA acknowledges many will need assistance for a while to come back.
Any evacuees in want of help ought to attain out to the Animal Helpline at 1-855-622-7722 .
The BC SPCA would additionally wish to share its appreciation to the next group and associate organizations who’ve gone above and past to supply help for wildfire evacuees, notably in Kelowna and West Kelowna: Animal Lifeline Emergency Response Team (ALERT), BlkBox meals by way of Darryl Reuter, Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Kelly O’Bryan’s, Khalsa Aid, Lend A Paw – the Okanagan’s pet meals financial institution, Mamas for Mamas, Okanagan Humane Society, Pets Alive, RC Pets, and the Regional District of Central Okanagan Animal Control.
B.C. wildfires update
Updated Story: Aug. 21, 2023
As devastating wildfires proceed to influence many communities throughout British Columbia, the BC SPCA has already supplied look after lots of of animals in want, together with those that have been rescued from behind fireplace traces, greater than 104 animals being cared for by way of the BC SPCA’s emergency boarding program, and people whose households’ have wanted emergency provides.
Wildfire evacuees in want of help for his or her pets ought to attain out to the BC SPCA Animal Helpline at 1-855-622-7722 for help with the next:
- Temporary emergency pet boarding and care at no cost to these displaced by the wildfires.
- Free pet meals and provides available at native BC SPCA animal centres or Emergency Support Services centres.
- Information help for evacuees with pets.
- Reunification of pets who’ve gone lacking throughout an emergency evacuation.
- Where it’s deemed secure to take action, rescue and look after animals who wanted to be left behind throughout evacuation.
“Whether it is providing a few bags of dog food and a crate to a family evacuating or bringing a beloved cat into our temporary emergency pet boarding, we want pet owners to know that the BC SPCA is here for them during this scary time,” explains Gaelene Askeland, senior supervisor, Animal Care Services in Kelowna. “With demand increasing for these services, we are deploying additional staff to affected areas to support these efforts. This can be a costly endeavour and, especially with no way of knowing how long these extra supports will be needed, we are so grateful for the public assistance we have received already.”
Anyone focused on volunteering with the BC SPCA can e-mail [email protected] to be related with the suitable centres and applications.
BC SPCA able to help pet guardians affected by wildfires throughout the Thompson-Okanagan Region
Original Story: Aug. 18, 2023
The BC SPCA is providing help to pet guardians throughout the province who’re impacted by the raging wildfires. As evacuation orders proceed to develop and extra individuals are displaced, the BC SPCA is already offering emergency boarding for pets of evacuees and has pet meals and provides available for these in want.
“We currently have 24 animals in our care through emergency boarding with more requests coming in from evacuees in Kelowna, Lytton and Kamloops. To keep up with growing demand, we are currently deploying additional staff members to our animal centres in the Okanagan and Thompson-Nicola regions,” says Gaelene Askeland, senior supervisor, Animal Care Services in Kelowna. “This is an extremely stressful and scary time; we want pet guardians to know the BC SPCA is here to help ease some of the burden they may be feeling.”
If you might be an evacuee in want of emergency boarding, pet provides or pet meals, please contact the next businesses for extra data:
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- BC SPCA: B.C. wildfire evacuees who’re in want of emergency boarding for his or her pets, please contact the BC SPCA Animal Helpline at 1-855-622-7722.
For folks wanting to supply donations of provides, please contact your native shelter to find out wants.
The BC SPCA has arrange a particular on-line emergency donation web site to assist animals affected by the wildfires.