The SPCA seized Gwen Wilson's beloved, plump, and happy dog Dakota, for having a smaller lick granuloma on his leg, at the same time it seized her cats, and made her pay almost $4000 to get him back. You can read all about this on Gwen's AAS web pages: http://www.animaladvocates.com/seizures/wilson.
The SPCA had charges laid against Gwen, a kind-hearted woman, who had abandoned cats dumped on her by people who didn't want the cats to go to the SPCA because the SPCA killed so many of them, or didn't want to pay the SPCA $50 to take their cat. Gwen produced medications she was giving an old cat, but the SPCA took it outside and shot it; or at least had the armed RCMP it brings with it, shoot it. Shooting animals is a legal form of destruction, but what is a so-called animal welfare organization doing shooting animals? That makes it hard to oppose shooting animals doesn't it? It only very recently said it didn't approve of the shooting of the feral rabbits in Kelowna. The public has to know that this animal-welfare organization orders the police it brings with it to seizures to shoot animals rather than save them. What a blatant contradiction that is.

I am never going to forget Gwen and what the SPCA did to her. AAS is still paying the food bills for Gwen's remaining animals, even though she died a year ago. We are doing that in memory of a kind person who took care of many of Chilliwack's abandoned cats for years at great expense out of her tiny resources; cats that we believe the SPCA should have been helping her with, instead of making the last eighteen years of her life a brutal nightmare of having to plead guilty to charges that she was cruel to animals, that did not have to be, and should not have been, laid by the SPCA.