I am sickened by the problem of animal abuse and neglect by First Nations people. It is not excusable in my opinion. And being silently politically-correct is self-protection, not animal protection. As long as everyone is blamed but the people themselves, the worse than third world treatment of animals on reserves won't end. Waiting for people to take responsibility one day is not only naive, but it ruthlessly denies any protection for the animal victims.

All the offers to set up self-administered programs fail: few offers of help are even acted on. Marie Dick's post is only the truth, and there is worse: stabbings, shootings, beatings to death by kicking, by strangulation, by hanging, by dog-fighting, by running over with cars, the dogs left with smashed bones and ruptured organs left to drag themselves around until someone casually finishes them off or the other dogs do it. Last week a chained dog on the Musqueam reserve hang itself to death.

The SPCA ought to be called to account for its years of allowing the worst "distress" in BC to go unchecked and untold. I myslef have been told by SPCA Constables that the SPCA can't go on reserves, which is a flat-out lie. Complainants are told by the SPCA that as long as the SPCA does not have a contract with the band to do animal control, it can't go on the reserve - even when the complaint has nothing to do with control, but is a cruelty complaint. For decades that is how the SPCA has baffled and misled people reporting the worst animal abuse in BC into "going away".