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THE SPCA JUSTIFIES ITS
POUND CONTRACTS BY CLAIMING IT IS MORE HUMANE THAN PRIVATE CONTRACTORS. THE
ELECTROTHANATOR TELLS THE TRUTH.
THE SPCA JUSTIFIES ITS
POUND CONTRACTS BY CLAIMING IT IS MORE HUMANE THAN PRIVATE CONTRACTORS. |
From the AAS web page
THE
SPCA TRIES TO SILENCE AAS WITH A THREAT OF LIBEL "From a document re the SPCA's insistence on using machines called eloctrothanators to kill dogs. ...'the report from Clint Davy, a director of the Vancouver Regional SPCA, who was voted off the board of the Vancouver SPCA for being too humane (along with five other directors who only asked that the Vancouver SPCA stop using the electrothanator and the gas box), and from a UBC engineer, describes how every electrothanator in all Vancouver Regional shelters was haywired and uncalibrated and how none of the staff were trained it its proper use; how the dogs burned because of improper use of the electrodes; how instead of using the rear-leg electrode which draws the current from the ears to the back leg thus going through the heart and resulting in a quick death, the employees made the dogs stand in water, often resulting in the current going from the ears through the front legs, not killing the dog, and so that the procedure had to be repeated sometimes five to six times. Davy also reports incidents of terrified and injured dogs being forcefully dragged into the machines which stank of burned hair and the feces of terrified dying dogs.' ..."One incident I recall was about a female dog who came in for spaying. She was supposed to recover in a kennel up front where people could watch her and make sure she didn't lick her stitches etc. She was a barker and annoyed the person on duty, so they put her way in the back in a concrete run alone. They obviously forgot about her, so it wasn't until later that night when I got an urgent phone call from a worker to come to the hospital right away, as there was a dog who would not get up off the floor. When I arrived, I discovered that her entire spay incision had opened up, the blood had dried and was stuck to the floor so she couldn't move, and her insides were hanging out. Amazingly she licked my hand, wagged her tail, and gave me a pleading look with her eyes to help. I phoned the vet and asked him to come down and stitch this poor dog back together again, since I could see she was ok otherwise. The vet refused, gave a short laugh and said "tell the dog I'm sorry", and told me to euthanize her on the spot. Grudgingly, I did as I was told. It was really sad." God help you if you're no
longer wanted by your "owner". The SPCA will kill you if your owner pays. It is clear that the SPCA cannot cope with so many animals in its
"care". And yet it will not stop taking owner-surrendered animals when it is
full, and it still has pound contracts which also fill it up. Those two
policies are why the SPCA has so many animals in its "shelters" (what a
corruption of a good, kind, decent word) and why it must kill thousands and neglect even
more. The SPCA has pound contracts and a pound cannot say it has no room, so all the animals suffer from lack of care and attention, and when it takes another animal in, another animal is going to have to die or all the animals are going to get less care and attention than they deserve. This has been confirmed to us over and over, but Brigitta MacMillan has described in detail how cats fare at the Maple Ridge SPCA: see photo, click here HEALTH: New animals were not routinely checked for health and animals are adopted out with fleas, ear mites and worms. Cats are not consistently given inoculations; some are and some are not, for no better reason than that staff didn't have time when the cat was received. Cats frequently sit in a cage for hours without food and water because staff don't get around to them. Surely this should be their top priority. Last summer and this summer the shelter ran completely out of canned cat food and rather than buy more, as we had been assured they could do by SPCA Executive after bringing it to their attention, they fed all the cats, from tiny kittens to elderly cats, donated dry food that was stale dated by several months. Pet supply stores have told us they have donations for the SPCA but that no one comes to pick it up. Upper respiratory infections (URI) - a cat flu - are very common in shelters. In a home
a cat can recover fairly quickly. In the stress of shelter life, URI can be serious. It's
highly contagious among cats though it cannot affect other animals or humans. Young
kittens die from it and their death takes days. The SPCA adheres rigidly to a rule that
all strays must be held for a number of days (varies from shelter to shelter) in case an
owner comes forward to claim the cat. Only 2% of cats are ever reclaimed by an owner. But
nearly every cat will contract URI before the waiting period is over. Yet staff put tiny
kittens and terrified older cats into a room full of sick cats knowing that they will
contract the illness and knowing some will die from it. Staff have rejected volunteer's
suggestions for protecting healthy cats from sick ones by setting up a makeshift isolation
ward or by fostering them over the mandatory holding period. Everything is done for the
convenience of the bureaucracy at the cost of the animals. |
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