The Provincial Ministry of Agriculture Food and Fisheries (MAFF) is required to make the SPCA uphold the civil rights of animal-owners who are under investigation. The SPCA is trampling on animal-owners rights - and worse, it is actually breaking the law when it seizes animals without first giving the owners an "Offence Warning Notice".

The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act says clearly that this must be done: that owners have to be told what the offence is and allowed to correct it. Only if it is not corrected does the PCA Act then allow the SPCA to seize animals.

The SPCA has ignored this section of the PCA Act. Not only does it seize illegally, but it further tramples on owners civil rights by bringing TV and newspapers when it storms into peoples' houses and starts grabbing their animals.

No one is safe when the law enforcers ignore the law. In a civil, safe society, we must all be protected from crooked cops. AAS is glad that after a hundred years of no cruelty prevention, the SPCA is actually enforcing the Act, but we can't ever be glad when the law itself is to be feared.

It gets even worse. Not only does the SPCA seize illegally, but it then gives abused animals back to their owners...if they pay the SPCA's exorbitantly inflated "seizure costs".

And the worst of all is that the SPCA, after pretending to heroically "rescue" animals from monstrous animal abusers, then kills some of the animals once the media's attention has moved on. That is the vilest of all the betrayal by the SPCA. Betrayal of the public and of the innocent animals it has "rescued" and profited from.

AAS is going to be pushing hard to force the Ministry to investigate this.