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Why did the SPCA kill Oreo?

My name is Debbie Holland and the SPCA in Campbell River BC killed our old dog Oreo because I didn’t have the $500 to have her teeth fixed!!!  Oreo was part of our lives for 12 years she was beginning to get confused at times and wondered off and that's how the SPCA got her twice in a couple of months, but on the second time I told the lady at the SPCA that the gate was finished the day they took her. I was so crushed when they took her away from me.  My 2 kids went to the SPCA and spent an hour with her before they killed her and she was jumping and wanting to go home and I just didn't have the money....we were crying and begged to take her home. OMG we miss her soooo much.

Families on limited incomes just have their pets killed......    how sad for those children...  money doesn’t make you have more love!! We are still crying.....................

This is my Oreo

I didn't know my rights to object to their authority.  I just miss her and wish I knew my rights.  I hold so much guilt over this situation.  Though the first time she was picked up they insisted that I have her looked at by a Vet and I complied and have a $200.00 Vet bill for a rash she had that I now know was a food allergy and I had a copy of that bill sent to the CR SPCA.  And that's when we started building the fence to contain her. It was completed the day that they took her the second time.  They told me that they would not give her back unless I could prove to them that I was able to come up with the monies for her teeth. I thought I had no choice.  I'm on a disability pension and find it difficult to address emotional issues not to mention the lack of energy.  Thanks again for your support and I wish I knew about your organization prior to them killing our baby*. Deb Holland
 
PS  Lorraine was the name of the officer that informed me of their intentions to have Oreo destroyed.  They didn't give me any other suggestions or options on how or what I could have done to save her.  They made me feel as if I was abusive and cruel to not agree to their demands.  The 500.00 was what she told me it would cost at minimum.

* Deb is grateful to AAS because I told her that if I had known in time, AAS would have had Oreo's teeth seen to, to prevent the SPCA from coldly killing her.  What the SPCA did to Oreo and does every day to many other animals, is not animal welfare by any honest animal welfare definition.  The SPCA has had the disgusting gall to say that killing is animal welfare because it puts suffering animals out of their misery.  That cannot apply to Oreo or almost all of the hundreds of thousands of innocent animals it has killed in its job as contracted pet disposer for BC.


Why did Oreo end up at the SPCA?  Because the Campbell River SPCA is Campbell River's contracted dog catcher/disposer. (http://www.campbellriver.ca/CityHall/Bylaws/Pages/Contacts.aspx)

Animal Control Barking/biting dogs; Dogs at large; unlicensed dogs SPCA
250.286-6131
What have those duties to protect people from dogs have to do with the SPCA's duty to protect dogs from people? Do you donate to the SPCA knowing that all over BC it kills dogs for contract money?

From the SPCA's 2009 CRA figures: Total revenue received from municipal/regional governments $ 3,143,510

What had killing Oreo to do with animal welfare?  Nothing.  But the money the SPCA gets for these contracts may explain why it has them.

And the $13,491,353 it paid its staff, a whopping 48% of $27,837,334 in revenue, may explain why it has dog killing contracts.

2009 SPCA CRA financial information
Its contract is probably why it killed Tyson. The reason the SPCA wouldn't let Robert have Tyson was because it has a contract with the City of Burnaby to be its paid animal controller, its dog-catcher/impounder/disposer. The City of Burnaby has a duty to protect the public from dogs, and the SPCA takes money to do that.

That the SPCA takes money to protect people from dogs when its mandate is to protect dogs from people, is a blatant conflict of interest, but one that pays well.

The City of Burnaby also has a duty to protect Burnaby taxpayers from the expense of litigation should a dog, sold by its animal control agency, bite a person.  So the SPCA assesses and fails and kills dogs like Tyson under the terms of its contract.  Even dogs like Tyson who was gentle, submissive, docile and manageable with everyone but SPCA employees.  The SPCA was more concerned with its contract than with a dog. It wouldn't even let Tyson live his life with  someone like Robert, who had proved that Tyson was not a public menace.

Its contract is probably why the SPCA killed Titan even though breed rescue offered to take him.

 

 

 

 

Its contract is probably why the SPCA killed Picasso.

 

 

 

But would the staff at City Hall, who are so worried about liability, have insisted that the SPCA kill 10lb Munchkin, especially given that a well-respected small dog rescue society begged to be allowed to save him which even had a lawyer write a letter releasing the SPCA from liability? Or was that some perversion of the SPCA's understanding of what the City expects from it?

The probable reason that the SPCA was bent on killing Cheech was that it was the contracted dog-catcher for Delta.  But thanks to savvy staff and a volunteer, Cheech was stolen from the Delta SPCA before they could kill him.

Did you know? The BCSPCA has contracts with many BC municipalities worth over $3 million dollars a year, to enforce animal control bylaws, to impound, and to dispose, which it does by selling or killing the animals. It is also paid to seize dogs which it deems dangerous, applying for  court orders to have the dogs destroyed (by the SPCA) if the owner doesn't buckle under to threats of huge fines and lawsuits.
Ed Chase is one person, who though penniless, took on the SPCA and after a year of misery for his dog Raymond in a bleak SPCA cell, got him back.
Video, photos, story
Why do so many animals have to be saved from the SPCA by so many rescuers? Tippi is just one of thousands of animals saved from the $28 million dollar a year BCSPCA.
Read the SPCA's 56 justifications for killing while the CEO told the media and the public  it only kills,

"...to end the suffering of an animal that is beyond medical help.'

Look at the list that the SPCA could choose from when in-putting a reason for destruction and decide for yourself if this is a real animal welfare organization. Although the SPCA has made changes in reaction to bad publicity there is still something inherently wrong with it, as we believe these few stories show.