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It’s an animal camp. It’s a kids camp.

It’s a kids and animals and awesome life skills camp!

The Ontario SPCA has some big ideas to teach your little people. BARC ­ Basic Animal Responsibility Camp ­ is a weeklong humane education program offered to children aged 7-12. It really is perfect for kids who love animals, but it’s also an extraordinary opportunity go beyond that love, to learn more about the animal world they live in and how to become responsible citizens of that world. Let us tell you what we mean.

First, a bit about humane education. With three main goals, humane education first strives to provide accurate information about current issues, to help us all understand the consequences of our decisions. A second goal of humane education is to instill respect and responsibility ­ so we can face challenges and respond to them with integrity. And finally, humane education seeks to offer positive choices that benefit the individual, animals, and the environment so we can be empowered to create a more humane world.

To teach children these principles, BARC will break down into four exciting theme days.  We’ll journey through the skies one day, travel the seas and waterways on another, visit the wild animals of the land on a third day, and bring the kids ‘home’ to discuss domestic animals on a fourth in-camp day.
And on each of these days, we’ll talk not only about the creatures in each of their respective environments, but also how our activities (as humans) affect animals’ lives and worlds, and what we can do to mitigate those effects. 
 
Two weeks of Camps are offered:

- July 26 to 30 for campers ages 10 to 12
- August 16 to 20 for campers ages 7 to 9