There is a only-too-human tendency to be gleeful when someone who has been media-ized into a monster by the SPCA is publicly punished. And there is another only-too-human fascination with watching public beheadings.

But your head could be next. Do you have sick kittens in the bathroom? Do you have a house full of dogs getting medical treatment?

Some animal-lovers may be forgetting the lesson of Forgotten Felines. The SPCA threatened and bullied founder Penny March for having "too many cats". Many of Penny's cats were given to her by the SPCA itself, often because they were sick and the SPCA was just going to kill them. But the right hand of SPCA's chaotic management does not even know what its left hand is doing, and for reasons that still have not been believably explained, the SPCA raided Forgotten Felines, threatening to seize all the cats (which it would then have killed) and threatening to bring the RCMP. (The only thing the SPCA seems to be organized to do is to bully and seize. Other than that, it can't organize a rock-fight.)

Not one account has come to us of any cats not being given complete care at Forgotten Felines. Vancouver Sun columnist Barbara Yaffe is a weekly volunteer at Forgotten Felines and she defended it in an article and on radio. It is not reasonable to think that Yaffe has disgustingly low standards herself or that she is lying.

It's easy to be outraged and gleeful. It's not so easy to be informed and thoughtful about which is worse - a storm-trooper SPCA with no controls or breeders with no controls?

Breeders can be easily controlled without money-making seizures, without public punishment, without ruin, without their dogs being put in places worse than their own, without dogs being killed by the SPCA. But the SPCA has not chosen the legitimate course - to first improve its own facilites and to have breeding regulations adopted. It has chosen the lucrative course - thuggish media-attracting seizures.

Controlling breeders is a lot easier than controlling the SPCA. But it must and will be done...on principle, and because no one is safe until the SPCA itself is controlled.