The Vancouver Courier ran a story last month about Penny March's Richmond cat shelter, Forgtten Felines, and a cat that was given to a vet to be put down because its owner was moving. The vet asked Penny to take the cat which she did. It turned out that the cat was very ill, excessively thin, and weak. Penny and her volunteers did their best for it, hand-feeding it, giving it anti-biotics and sub-cu fluids, but after six days it died anyway. The owner decided he wanted his cat back; the vet directed him to Penny, but the owner refused to believe that his cat was dead, and after many abusive phone calls to Forgotten Felines, went to the Courier with his story...which the Courier printed! Reporter Sandra Thomas interviewed Penny and then wrote the exact opposite of what Penny told her, writing that Penny had had the cat killed. Penny is a no-kill shelter and spends hundreds a month keeping cats alive and in good health. Penny's donor base is because she is no-kill and to publish that she kills is not only personally defaming but potentially damaging to her donor base.

Penny's lawyer asked the Courier to print a correction, which it refused to do. So then a complaint had to be made the BC Press Council. Only after defaming Penny and then stubbornly making Penny spend money to undo the damage the Courier did to Penny, did the Courier make any amends.