Animal Advocates Watchdog
Billie spent two months squished into a tiny stainless steel SPCA cage. The average size of SPCA cat kennels that we have observed is roughly two feet long by two feet deep by two and a half feet tall. Some may be a little bigger, but not by much.
By the time Billie, the Hide and Perch box, and the litter box were put into that tiny cage, she had nowhere to sit but in her litter box. She spent two months there.
By the time she was adopted, her underside was caked with feces, and her perianal area was grossly swollen and reddened. Her new owner took her immediately to a vet, who gave her an injection for pain and applied local anaesthetic directly to the area to ease the discomfort. Antibiotics were dispensed for perianal and skin infection.
Cats kept in cages at SPCAs are limited to only four behaviour options: They can hide in their scientifically designed and slickly marketed cardboard "Hide and Perch" box, or they can perch on it, with their little heads crammed up against the ceiling of their tiny cage, or they can pace back and forth on the little six inch runway left at the front of the cage, stopping only to stick their legs out of the front bars as far as they can possibly reach, and meow in desperation at anyone who will listen...or they can sit in their litterbox covered in their own urine and feces until the SPCA sells them or kills them.
Messages In This Thread
- SPCA Uses CVMA Humane Standards to Bully Animal Welfare Groups and Breeders When Its Own Facilities Are Substandard
- Craig Daniell's "Miracles in the branches" is that any animal survives the SPCA
- Selling and killing sick animals: Dot survives the pestilent Surrey SPCA *PIC*
- The cocker at the Surrey SPCA that was not allowed to be adopted by rescue and was killed *LINK* *PIC*
- The little cocker killed by the Surrey SPCA:I couldn't take her, I wish I had
- The little cocker that was killed by the Surrey SPCA: It's all a crapshoot with the SPCA
- Sick animals with already compromised systems are vaccinated and put in with the general population
- The little cocker that was killed by the Surrey SPCA: It's all a crapshoot with the SPCA
- SPCA indiscriminately vaccinates all animals, even sick ones
- Re: Selling and killing sick animals: Dot survives the pestilent Surrey SPCA
- The little cocker killed by the Surrey SPCA:I couldn't take her, I wish I had
- Billie: Hide or Perch Or...Sit in Your Dirty Litterbox at the SPCA Because Your Cage is so Tiny That You Have No Other Options *PIC*
- Selling Sick Animals: Felicity: Another SPCA Survivor *PIC*
- Selling Sick animals: Gwen: Hide or Perch or...lay catatonic with depression in your tiny SPCA cage *PIC*
- The BC SPCA can't have it both ways. Either the CVMA kennel standards are official or they aren't
- Selling Sick Animals: Alice: Another Cat Made Stressed and Sick by an SPCA Alcatraz *PIC*
- Selling Sick Animals: Pippin: Two Months in the SPCA With an Ear Full of Pus *PIC*
- Selling Sick animals: Jasper: bargain basement deals on dying cats *PIC*
- SPCA actions are not only unforgivable - they are actionable
- Selling and killing sick animals: Dot survives the pestilent Surrey SPCA *PIC*
- Craig Daniell's "Miracles in the branches" is that any animal survives the SPCA
