This is shocking! What SPCA standards determine who gets their animals back and who doesn't? Or is it just the personal whim of someone at the SPCA?

SPCA Special Animal Protection Officer Eileen Drever is quoted saying that the SPCA is going to watch Rutledge closely. That's just what her husband, Chief Animal Protection Office Shawn Eccles said more than two years ago when dozens of unheeded complaints to the SPCA came to boil and this farm made the news.

AAS attended the farm. We video-taped what we saw: thin animals standing in mud, and their own manure, creatures in dirty, dark cages and pens, rabbits in a stifling trailer, many rodents in more trailers in dark, dirty cages, and the saddest of all, bins full of little ducklings kept in the dark.
There were no fields at Rutledge's, no place for these trapped creatures to run and play or live in any way a normal, healthy life. Just the misery of dirty, dark cages in between "cute" appearances at her petting zoo gigs in malls and at fairs.

On what basis does the SPCA decide who gets animals back and who doesn't? Is there any consistency? What are the SPCA's standards?

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