This TV newscast story was not true; the pups were not "on death row facing certain death". Who told the TV station that they were?

Other statements made by Victoria SPCA manager Penny Stone must be questioned too. "We're here to help the ones that no one else will help", is only selectively true. There is a long and shameful history of the Victoria SPCA refusing help to animals that won't get it TV exposure.

"We'll be doing home checks to make sure they get forever homes". There is no guarantee of a forever home for any animal and even less for Pit Bulls. The phrase "forever homes" is a pet-shuffling industry slogan and it's not honest.

The Victoria SPCA has a history of "adoptions" so bad that the dogs end up in pounds, unclaimed and unwanted. SPCA volunteers say there are seldom if any, home checks and follow-up calls. Will they be done for these pups? The SPCA makes so many untrue statements to the media that there is no way to know.

Will the pups be microchipped? Will they be tattooed? Will these records stay in the SPCA's name jointly with the new owners so that if any of these pups end up in a pound or an SPCA, the Victoria SPCA can keep them from being killed? That is what ethical rehomers do.

An SPCA defender told us, "The Victoria SPCA offers free spays/ neuters for any pitbull in the public. The word has spread and on a weekly basis, there is at least one "young drug dealer type" who comes in to get their Pitty or Staffy spayed or neutered.".

This is an admission of what we all know, that most owners of Pit Bulls are people who ethical rehomers will not give a dog to, and yet the Victoria SPCA is publicly guaranteeing that every pup will go to a good home. The reality, known to the SPCA, is that these pups have a good chance of becoming public dangers and being killed by a pound or an SPCA in (statistically on average) two years.

And if the Victoria SPCA is providing free sterilization for Pit Bulls, it is not saying so on its web site.