In this thread AAS will be proving that the SPCA's assessments tests are junk-science, created in a panic after the Vancouver SPCA killed numerous dogs in 2002 and then lied on TV when it said they were all dangerous. Volunteers were able to expose that lie...the SPCA had been cleaning house, making space for the next delivery of "product" to sell.
The SPCA had to make sure that it was never caught with its pants down in the media this way again...so it devised "scientifically impregnable proof" that a dog is aggressive. The media bought it, just as the SPCA intended, for quite a while. Cheech may just be the dog that makes liars of them all...again.
AAS researcher, Joann U. Bessler, M.Sc., has shown on this board exactly how CAMP is NOT science. The case of Cheech is the ultimate proof that there is no scientific rigour to CAMP, that it is blatantly subjective and is manipulated by those in power over the animals at the SPCA for the SPCA's benefit. (Read more: http://www.animaladvocates.com/Watchdog/CAMP.htm )
Further proof is all the dogs that were sold by the SPCA and then went on to be so dangerous that they had to be euthanized by their owners, and all the dogs that were sold by the SPCA even though they had bitten and had shown other behaviours much more risky than Cheech's.
Why was Cheech chosen to die? We will say again what Amanda and Kirsten have said publicly: Cheech had the temerity to growl at the manager, Michelle Rodgers, when she roughly treated him during a high-stress situation. From that moment the test that had been done initially by the SPCA, that was favourable to Cheech, was rewritten, this time by a large, uniformed male assessor who entered Cheech's kennel with an object, probably a broom, and when he did something with the object, probably poked Cheech with it (we have seen this done by assessors), Cheech panicked and bit the object. Cheech was probably hit with objects while on his chain, but almost any dog would have bitten an object being wielded by a big, uniformed stranger.
Rodgers is one of CEO "Daniell's Darlings", imported from the Ontario SPCA where Daniell comes from. The Delta SPCA has become less animal-centred since Rodger's installation. We suspect that Daniell is going to install hard-nosed animal-disposers in every branch. He has clearly indicated this by his promotion of people who best manipulate the media while best controlling soft-hearted employees. And some of the Board of Directors who were intelligent enough to see what he is doing have gone and are being replaced with people of low calibre such as Bonnie Bischoff of Kamloops, a CAMP assessor who tried to have killed many little puppymill dogs that Daniell had had seized, in spite of the fact that there were many offers from real rehabilitators in the rescue community who offered to foster them. (Read the details and see photos of this atrocity at http://www.animaladvocates.com/Watchdog/KamloopsKillings.htm)