A charity-based animal hospital in Richmond is opening it doors next month, but the ability to do so didn’t come without a fight.

Eyal Lichtmann is the executive director of the Regional Animal Protection Society (RAPS), which back in December, was told it couldn’t use that name.

The College of Veterinarians of British Columbia (CVBC) wouldn’t give it approval to have the word ‘regional’ in the title, but has now relented.