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Gwen was dumped for her second time at an SPCA when we found her. She was less than a year old, and had been in the SPCA for less than a week this time around. She was so depressed in her tiny cage that she appeared to be either drugged or ill. She lay on her side in her Hide and Perch box, with her head sticking out and resting on the cold stainlees steel. Her eyes were distant and unfocused, staring into space, and she did not respond to any noise or visual stimuli at all. She didn't even blink. Quite frankly, she looked dead.
An SPCA staff person had scrawled the word "Housesoils" across her kennel card. Good sell SPCA. Gwen had no chance.
We were told by SPCA staff that Gwen had spent her entire time in her previous home hiding and housesoiling. We were also told that the home was a busy one with lots of kids and activity. We were told that Gwen was very shy and just would not adapt readily.
Within an hour of bringing Gwen home with us she was merrily batting at the water drips from the bathroom tap, eating, purring, and chattering away. She was not ill, or drugged, or deaf. She had just been terribly depressed, so depressed that she had withdrawn from the world and gone catatonic in her tiny SPCA cage.
There are thousands just like her, rotting their lives away in SPCA warehouses, waiting listless and depressed in their puny cells. Waiting to be killed or sold. Many stop eating and become ill while they wait, and instead of being treated, are killed.
Gwen just got lucky.
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
