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Alice spent two months in a cage in an SPCA facility before being rescued. Alice would routinely turn the contents of her cage upside down and inside out, so great was her stress from confinement - food dumped into water, blankets buried into litter, paper shredded all about, everything turned topsy turvy, her cage thus soiled, destroyed, and made uninhabitable.
After two months in the SPCA Alice was matted, thin, dehydrated, had ears full of dirt and debris, a dull look to her eyes, and prolapsed third eyelids. Alice was incredibly stressed, and was still tearing up her cage the day she was rescued.
Alice was taken to a veterinarian the same day she came out of the SPCA. Veterinary findings included severe parasitic infestation, dehydration, corneal ulceration, and significant weight loss. Her coat was noted as being dull and matted, and her ears were so badly impacted with dirt and debris that they required flushing under anaesthetic. This was done while Alice was spayed.
The veterinary staff who treated Alice were surprised by the SPCA's warning about her biting and being unhandleable, as was Alice's new owner. Alice was perfectly tractable and gave no one any trouble once removed from her SPCA stainless steel cage.
BC SPCA President Rick Sargent once referred to SPCA "shelters" as being "Alcatrazes for animals". Alice would concur.
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
