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By Aaron Schulze

SPCA Emergency Boarding

B.C. SPCA cutting adoption fees in half to free up space for animals evacuated due to wildfires

Jul 19, 2021 | 4:49 PM

KAMLOOPS — Across B.C., all 36 SPCA shelters have reduced their adoption prices by half.

It’s meant to free up shelter space for animals in the Interior and Northern parts of B.C. that have been evacuated due to wildfires, along with finding forever homes for their animals currently in shelters.

Lorie Chortyk, B.C. SPCA general manager of communications, said their shelters in the Interior and North are all over capacity.

“We have 68 animals in the Interior that we’ve taken in for emergency boarding,” Chortyk said. “Sixty-four of those are at the existing shelter in Kamloops. The requests keep coming in and we don’t want to turn anyone away. If we can clear out spaces across the province and transfer some of our homeless animals to other communities, we can keep our space free for those people that really need it from the wildfires.”

The B.C. SPCA has been taking in animals at the Kamloops Community Animal Centre since the wildfires began. On July 7, they opened an emergency animal centre in Kamloops, which is a temporary facility in a warehouse where they provide free boarding for anyone who has been displaced by the wildfires and can’t bring their pets with them.

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“Some people have lost their homes and other people don’t know what they’re going back to,” Chortyk said. “If we can take this one worry off their hand and make sure they have a safe place for their pet, we’re so happy to do that.”

Chortyk said the free animal boarding is temporary until displaced people can return to a normal living situation. She clarified the animals coming in for emergency boarding will not be up for adoption.

Anyone interested in adopting from the SPCA can do so online.