THE DOGS HAVE BEEN CALLED OFF

On November 3rd, AAS learned that the order threatening to seize forgotten Feline's cats was revoked by the SPCA.

The reason given was that the order had been complied with. But if so, then there was no need to revoke it. If this back-pedalling was just about March complying with the Order, then the matter would be resolved but on record. But according the CEO Craig Daniell, the order was revoked. "Revoke: abolish, repeal, reverse, rescind, annul, cancel". In other words, the order no longer exists: there is no record. Penny March had to use the threat of a lawyer and the RCMP to prevent her cats from being seized and taken to SPCA cages and to stop the SPCA from wielding what may be a use of its power based on personal animus.

To this date March has not been informed by the SPCA that it has called off its dogs.

The police protect society, but if the police become too powerful, society needs protecting from them. After fifty years of the SPCA not preventing cruelty, Craig Daniell was hired last year to use the PCA Act to prevent cruelty. No one could be more glad of that than AAS. But we do not want the Act to be used to "get" the competition or critics. Only if the SPCA applies standards of honest prevention of cruelty are any of us safe from abuse by the SPCA. Sadly, these tactics are not what AAS had in mind when it hoped for good things from Craig Daniell.