It’s spring – get outside and… learn!
As the days get longer and temperatures return to the plus side of zero, Albertans naturally start spending more time outdoors. Along with the newly budding leaves and flowers, field trips and environmental activities seem to flourish in spring. Our Kindness Calendar lists many events with educational components – often global in perspective but with […]
9 Lessons Learned in my Backyard this Summer
Bird feeders are great for attracting songbirds. But they sure are messy – those birds drop lots of seeds! Proper maintenance is important. Broken shed doors that don’t close are just inviting squirrels to move in. It’s important to clean out old nesting material from a bird house. Preferably before wasps make their home […]
Humane Education – another way to prevent cruelty
Albertans are once again horrified to hear of another young person charged with animal cruelty. The case of a dog and cat found dead in Calgary last January, both with their mouths taped shut and suffering from numerous injuries, recalls other events in recent years: Princess the cat, cooked to death in a microwave by […]
Reflecting Back and Looking Ahead
Many things about teaching – about our whole society in fact – have changed over the past 15 years since I joined the Alberta SPCA. When I started here in 1999 a large part of my job involved mailing VHS tapes on loan to schools (for those too young to remember VHS, ask your parents […]