Rice’S UnHAPPY ENDING
Sad Endings
There are too many dogs and not enough good homes. No matter how fast AAS tries to work, sometimes we are not fast enough.
Why should this be?
Because there are NO controls on breeding in BC. Puppy mills and backyard breeders flourish without comment or control by the BC SPCA, the official organization in BC that is supposed to be "speaking" for those who cannot speak for themselves. They are silent on this issue as they are on almost all issues of animal welfare in BC.
Animal Advocates can ask until we are hoarse for breeding controls and real animal welfare laws, but until the government hears from the BC SPCA, nothing will change. Why is the BC SPCA so silent? Who are they really "speaking" for?
This is the appeal we put in the AAS web mag...
HELP - RICE NEEDS A FOSTER HOME TODAY! (see Fostering - What is it?)
This dog was abandoned by a person who moved away last week from Bella Bella (a small fishing village in B.C.'s coast). He was left to fend for himself, with no food, water or shelter. He is hanging around outside a house in the village. He tried to go back to his empty home, but was attacked by another dog, and has a bad tear on his shoulder as well as being quite shaken up. He is lonely and scared. He's younger than a year old, and very affectionate, but nervous from his time on the street. He likes to be petted and tries to go in this house, but the occupants don't want him either. He's about the size of a smallish border collie . Other than his shoulder wound, he is in good health. He was a little scared of me when I took this picture, but the girl who now lives there said he is really friendly and affectionate.
Rice is still in Bella Bella and needs a foster or adoptive home to come to. But Crystal is moving from Bella Bella in a few days and we don't want homeless dogs like Rice to be left there. Please, some kind person offer to foster Rice.
AAS to often has to face the reality of some endings that are not happy. Rice's unhappy ending is all too common and is why AAS is fighting so hard to change the protection of animals from cruelty in BC and to get breeding controls.
No one offered and now it is too late. The new tenants, who left him outside, on a chain, said he "attacked" one of their kids so they had him "put down".
He was less than a year old! He had been abandoned by the family who "chose" him to be "theirs", to whom he gave his whole puppy heart and loyalty. And he begged to be made a part of another family, who chained him up instead. Why would he attack? What kind of "attack"? What were the children doing? Poor little Rice, never a hope at all. One betrayal after another until killed. And all in less than a year.
Why is it legal for so many dogs like Rice to be born, only to be abused, neglected, and killed? Why hasn't the BC SPCA, which has known about all the cruelty in BC for a hundred years, ever tried to control breeding, and tried to pass laws making the chaining of dogs illegal?
