Animal advocates still have their claws out for the SPCA
Letter
Published: Monday, March 03, 2008
Re: SPCA deserves none of our money, Soundoff, Feb. 13

Roslyn Cassells's Soundoff about the SPCA is right on the mark. Here in Langley, we have a wonderful replacement for it.

But Cassells did not go far enough. SPCA managers, in their wisdom, are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars suing one of the best protectors of abused animals, the Animal Advocates Society, for statements on their website about the SPCA. This money has been raised from public donations and should be helping the animals the SPCA is suppose to protect. I will never donate to the SPCA because there are several accredited no-kill shelters that do a far better job of protecting the animals.
Will Ramage
Langley

Published: Monday, March 03, 2008

Craig Daniell certainly can't be speaking about rabbits when he states that the SPCA is known for its "progressive work in animal welfare." Rabbits were kept in lab cages at the Vancouver branch from 2004 to 2006 with no time out for exercise. Although rabbits have been described as the "multiplying champion", they aren't sterilized before being rehomed.

All the rabbits that I brought out or were transferred to me and other rabbit rescue groups were sitting on Death Row. They were perfectly healthy rabbits, not "beyond medical help" nor "highly aggressive" as Daniell would have one believe.

Progressive animal welfare? I think not.
Carmina Gooch
North Vancouver

Letter
Published: Monday, March 03, 2008
Re: Attack on SPCA full of misinformation, Soundoff, Feb. 19

From personal experience, I know that at least one claim by Craig Daniell is untrue. He stated, "When the SPCA must euthanize an animal, it is for the same reason so-called 'no-kill' facilities euthanize animals -- to end the suffering of an animal that is beyond medical help or to protect the public from a highly aggressive animal that has not responded to rehabilitation."

The SPCA has euthanized animals when a shelter filled up despite standing offers from rescue groups to take them and despite the fact that cats were suffering from no more than a common curable illness. That is euthanizing for space.

I was the volunteer who put animals on the website for the Maple Ridge and Coquitlam SPCAs. I still have the names and log book numbers of animals that lost their lives needlessly.
Brigitta MacMillan
Maple Ridge