BC SPCA in desperate need of donations for pet food bank [Video]

Humans aren’t the only ones feeling the pinch amid the surging cost of living in British Columbia.

The BC SPCA says it’s seeing growing demand for the pet food bank service it offers across the province. The pet food banks helped provide an additional 1,235 animals with a week’s supply of food this year compared to 2021, the group said.

“Its easy to see that this year with inflation and climate emergencies like floods and fires, the need for food bank usage is going up, so we’re having a lot more people accessing these services. Donations have remained the same,” BC SPCA outreach specialist Diane Waters told Global News Morning BC.

“We’re being spread a little bit more thin.”

The BC SPCA provides pet food bank services through 34 of its B.C. locations, and partners with 135 other organizations, such as traditional food banks, across the province.

Waters said the …