Convicted Nova Scotia animal abuser Gail Benoit is facing more charges.

Benoit has been charged with violating the Animal Protection Act, according to a statement from the Nova Scotia SPCA. The charges include:

Selling cats without a veterinary health certificate.

Refusing to give information to an inspector or peace officer.

"Our cruelty investigations team received some anonymous complaints that Ms. Benoit was selling animals — cats specifically — without veterinary certificates of health, which is illegal under the Animal Protection Act," said SPCA spokeswoman Courtney Zylstra.

Benoit was charged after investigators went to her home on Tuesday.

Reaction to CBC story

On Wednesday, CBC reported a Halifax-area man recently purchased kittens from a woman on Kijiji who he believed to be Benoit.

Justin Killen, the man who bought the kittens, said the Nova Scotia SPCA got in touch with him the day the original CBC story was published. He said they told him Benoit was being charged.

"I'm glad that they were able to do something about it — not that I don't think they can do a whole lot. I don't think it will stop her from selling animals. But at least she could think about doing it right the next time," Killen said Thursday.

He said the kittens are healthy and have been to the vet. Killen admits he wasn't aware a vet certificate was required when buying animals online, and was already expecting to pay for the necessary procedures.

"She [Benoit] did it all right other than that. She should have just took them to the vet and got the papers. If she had done that and give them to me I wouldn't have thought twice."

History of animal cruelty

Until recently, Benoit was under a court order that barred her from buying or selling domestic or wild animals.

That court-imposed restriction has expired, but Kijiji has barred her for life from selling animals on its site.

In January 2009, Benoit was convicted of animal cruelty for selling sick and malnourished puppies. At first, she was barred from selling dogs, but that ban was later extended to buying, selling or giving away any animal. That ban has since ended.

More than five years later, in June 2014, Benoit was sentenced to 15 months of probation for stealing and selling two dogs from a woman in New Brunswick. She was barred from buying or selling domestic or wild animals. That court order has since expired as well.

Benoit was also charged with assault against a man in Dartmouth in July 2013, but Nova Scotia's public prosecution service said that charge was dismissed on Jan. 16, 2015.

Benoit is scheduled to appear in Dartmouth provincial court on April 19 to face the latest charges.

If convicted, Zylstra said Benoit could face fines.