Will threatened charges against the family of the "Porcupine Dogs" be laid? Where is the SPCA manager who stick-handled the best p.r. grab of the month?
The SPCA has posted a job opening for the manager of the Abbotsford and Chilliwack SPCAs which until very recently were jointly managed by long-time employee Joanne Halligan. Halligan is the SPCA employee who opportunistically took a family's loved but injured dogs away from them after refusing the family's pleas for financial help, probably making a bundle for the SPCA.
This is one of an increasing number of unethical, anti-animal, but brilliant and money-generating p.r. stunts, that are part of the "vision" of the new CEO who was hired to ramp up donations by making media-grabbing seizures at the same time defusing the negative p.r. of AAS's web site which exposed the SPCA for decades of its own anti-animal cruelty and for ignoring generations of animal cruelty. Read the story of how the SPCA was cruel to the Porcupine Dogs by taking them from their family, putting them in cells, and then selling them to strangers who may or may not treat them well for the rest of their lives, no one will ever know as the SPCA does not follow up on its sales. http://www.animaladvocates.com/Watchdog/PorcupineDogs.htm. Notice the SPCA's press release says " Spud and the two other dogs surrendered by the owner are available to media for photos or videotaping."
Did Halligan get her reward for this by being promoted to the position of Senior Animal Protection Officer? Or was she demoted for fumbling the ball and letting a credible person witness her telling the son-in-law of Spud's owners to lie and say he owned Spud, so that Spud could be surrendered to the SPCA - the only way the family had left to get her the medical attention she quickly needed. Halligan's own staff had callously refused pleas from the family for medical help, even though the family offered to pay soon and has a record of paying their vet bills. The SPCA's callousness forced the family to surrender Spud and then the SPCA turned on them and threatened to lay charges of cruelty if the timid and uneducated family didn't surrender the other two dogs, who were not in distress.
The SPCA then made a "Poster Pet" of all three dogs, milking the story for all it was worth, while imposing cruelty of both the dogs and the family. You can see that all three dogs are fat and happy at http://www.animaladvocates.com/Watchdog/PorcupineDogs.htm.
Our money is on the promotion. We bet that Halligan is one of Daniell's Darlings - the women who best epitomize Daniell's standards of ruthlessness.