Victoria SPCA manager (and Craig Daniell appointee) Valerie Lykkemark, asked this forum of interested individuals and rescue groups to support DTA4 by taking the most difficult dogs from the SPCA (and then give them back for the SPCA to sell to new owners).

Nice trick! The SPCA with $20 million a year gets to keep taking in all free product, choosing the cute ones to sell fast, and giving the impoverished alternative groups all the ethical and financial responsibility for the free product that the SPCA has rejected.

And more...this allows the SPCA to blame rescue groups for the dogs it "has to kill" if the groups have no money or foster homes or if the dog's behaviour is beyond the group's abilities to rehabilitate. It's all our fault folks! None of the "forum" participants with a brain fell for it of course.

Gourkow made thinly threats that the SPCA could start to do pre-surrender screening so that the SPCA gets to choose all the easily sellable dogs, throwing all the big, badly socialized dogs onto the alternative groups. Isn't that called "refining the market"?

But good came out of this circus - the SPCA has even more well-informed critics now. All the groups and people who had been in some doubt about the SPCA and DTA4 were converted by Gourkow and Lykkemark's behaviour. Everyone who attended said they did not want DTA4 in Victoria, but Gourkow and Lykkemark made it clear that they're going to get it and to hell with what animal-lovers in Victoria think or want.