The SPCA Raid on Forgotten Felines, in our opinion is the act of an irrational and dysfunctional Society.

On October the 10th, the BC SPCA sent its two top cops and an assistant to investigate Forgotten Felines, a Richmond cat shelter run by Penny March, that takes as many as 4 to 5 sick or old cats a week from the SPCA. (Read this story at "WHO LET THE DOGS OUT? The SPCA raids Forgotten Felines Cat Shelter" http://www.animaladvocates.com/cgi-bin/admin.pl/read/3718

Since then many irrational things have been done by the SPCA not least of which is that Craig Daniell, the CEO and Manager of Cruelty Investigations, will not respond to requests made by March, her lawyer Barbara Curran, or Forgotten Felines volunteer and Sun political columnist, Barbara Yaffe, to know what the SPCA is doing next. March has faxed Daniell about five times, Curran has asked twice and Yaffe two or three times. Daniell does not answer them.

He has also said repeatedly that the three SPCA officers were not in uniform, as though if no uniforms were worn, the inspection was not official and therefore not so bad. March, her husband, Serge Bellay, and three volunteers who were present all say all three SPCA officers were in uniform. And if they were out of uniform that Friday morning, did they just happen to also have with them an SPCA legal "Order" to lay against March?

Daniell has also said that he took the complaint and ordered the inspection so this was definitely official business. It would be odd, perhaps even not legal, for the SPCA to carry out official investigations in plain clothes.