Having worked as a veterinary technician for many years, and for several veterinary hospitals, I can say from experience that the majority of cats adopted from SPCAs that we see for their free vet exams (usually within 3 business days of being adopted) have upper respiratory disease. And the adoptive owners have usually been given a handout on upper respiratory disease by the SPCA at the point of purchase.

Now explain to me please Ms. Chortyk, how it is that your Society is allowed to regularly crowd, stress, and thus sicken cats, yet, instead of improving conditons at your own facilities, you persecute independent animal rescuers, who quite often have taken animals from your facilities in order to SAVE them from becoming sick (mentally and physically) and then killed?

Does the term "double standard" come to anyone's mind?....

Jennifer Dickson
(named in the Supreme Court writ of defamation by the BC SPCA)