A few weeks ago AAS was phoned by a health care worker whose elderly client was going to be unable to walk her little dog for two weeks while she recovered from surgery. The health care worker phoned the SPCA to ask if they could provide a volunteer to walk the dog and the SPCA said no, but if there was a concern that the dog was going to being neglected it would "investigate".

Horrified that the SPCA might seize the woman's dog, she refused to give the address and asked AAS if we could provide a volunteer, which we did.