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 result was 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. 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

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