Even if the SPCA wins a point on a technicality, it still loses because of the devastatingly bad P.R. The SPCA could have chosen the wise (and free) course by just getting honest. Instead, it chose to add abuse of statutory power when it started making media-savvy seizures of healthy animals, to its long history of abuse of animals. Some of its animal welfare has improved - we think - we are not sure. The SPCA announces new policies, such as all animals will be sterilized pre-sales by a certain date, and then when it goes on selling intact animals, it says nothing. It started the Biscuit Fund to great fanfare, but injured animals were still killed. SPCA watchers just can't tell what is going on behind the fog of secrecy the Society operates in.