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 * 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)
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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 |
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