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In Response To: Nanaimo SPCA pushes Christmas pets *PIC* ()

"Home for the Holidays" is marketing, not animal welfare.
Animal welfare is not recycling of pets but rehoming with care and concern, expecting the animal being rehomed will have a lifetime home not just a home until it is returned to the SPCA to be recycled again.
The BC SPCA prides itself on being an Animal Welfare Organization. To be one it also has to act like one.
Even the perception of marketing rather than animal welfare should be avoided.
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Nanaimo SPCA pushes Christmas pets *PIC*

More changing SPCA policy: No longer bad to adopt a new pet at Christmas, now a GOOD thing!

In this case the exception is the rule

My investigations of the SPCA could find no action or policy of the BC SPCA that wasn't corrupted in some way

Fifty years: Women who saved cats from the SPCA

Always trailing - never leading *LINK*

The San Francisco SPCA has had a real, working, active partnership with cat rescuers since 1993

I think that most people would agree that any programme that clears cats and dogs out of SPCA facilities is worthwhile

Marketing works - You can fool most of the people most of the time if it is slick enough *PIC*

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Moving Product is not Animal Welfare

At least it used to mouth the right words

AAS'S MONSTER PRE-CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS SALE OF UNWANTED CATS AND DOGS

Many people are overloaded with stuff, stuff, and more stuff under the Xmas tree

"The SPCA sees a spike in the number of surrendered cats and dogs in the weeks following Christmas," SPCA Manager Mark Takhar says *LINK*

"Christmas is a really hectic time and you need to spend time and effort on a new pet", Takhar said *PIC*

Questioning the defence that has been made for the Home for the Holidays promotion on the grounds that it is "successful"

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