The SPCA gets kudos and lots of attention for its inspection of big-business rodeo events. It's presence and lack of disapproval is the grease that keeps the rodeo wheels turning. If the SPCA went behind the scenes, as Emma Vandewetering has, and then told the media what it found and why it will be prosecuting the suppliers of rodeo animals (effectively shutting down rodeos), then we would be impressed by the SPCA's concern for animal suffering. But not until.