ANIMALADVOCATES SOCIETY OF BC - THE KILLINGS OF THE KAMLOOP'S PUPPY MILL DOGS

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KAMLOOPS SPCA KILLS PUPPYMILL DOGS
The Kamloops SPCA continues to show dead dogs on its web site appealing for money.
Note that the SPCA calls euthanasia "rescue"
http://www.spca.bc.ca/kamloops/rescue1.html

Lynda Miller, ex-SPCA volunteer with Freckles (on back) and Brenda (looking at camera). Lynda asked to adopt Brenda but the SPCA killed her and Lynda only found out much later. (See pictures of Ivy and Kelly, the lucky dogs that Lynda was allowed to adopt, bottom of page)
Freckles and Brenda (Brenda euthanized)	Bonnie, Kelly (may be euthanized May 20) Fern
Max - sent to a correctional facility	Palmer - sent to a correctional facility
Ally	Belle
Cassie	Darla
Prince	Skully
Lisa	Reuben

These are pictures of Ivy, our 2 year old blind cocker adopted from the Baker-Pyke group at the Kamloops SPCA. This is her first ever home experience and she is adjusting incredibly well. She's only been in my home since last Wednesday and look at her! She's very proud of her nice new sweater.

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Kelly

Ivy

Ivy and Kelly

I am writing to acknowledge the public support/outcry regarding the fate of the Kamloops puppy mill dogs and the possible euthanasia of Kelly. The end results were; no more euthanasias and all the dogs have been placed except one poodle and one shih tzu. Amazing how public pressure can achieve results. The most surprising result...the Kamloops SPCA phoned me directly last week asking me to adopt Kelly!

Kelly and Ivy are with me together now. They are incredible. Both love the nice warm bed, sitting on the couch watching tv and gluing themselves to everyone for pats and hugs. Kelly is steadily progressing, doing better in one week than I hoped to see in many months. (See their pictures at:

Had the handling of the puppy mill dogs not been made so incredibly public, I have no doubt the outcome would have been disastrously different with more animals being euthanised.

Incredibly, as of this date, the Kamloops SPCA website continues to advertise for public donations to assist with the costs of the puppy mill dogs using the picture of Brenda with Freckles and myself, four week after it euthanized Brenda, in spite of repeated requests from me to adopt her, and in spite of repeated requests to remove that photo. It remains on that page bearing witness to the injustice of her fate. Her eyes haunt me.

I shudder to think of what the future holds for yet more puppy mill dogs coming into the system all across the province.

http://www.spca.bc.ca/kamloops/rescue1.html

Lynda Miller
June 8/03

AAS comment: Brenda's eyes clearly don't haunt the SPCA which seems not to mind using a picture of a dog it killed to lure donations from animal-lovers.

See messageboard posts from Lynda and others starting here: http://www.animaladvocates.com/cgi-bin/newsroom.pl/read/2509 and http://www.animaladvocates.com/cgi-bin/newsroom.pl/read/2564

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