Carolyn says the SPCA does home checks, yet a staff member told me yesterday that they don't. She said that they don't have time. Who are you going to believe? A person with nothing to defend or a person with something to defend?

We are glad to hear that puppy Channing now has a fenced yard, but that does not allay our fears that he is an "outside dog" as that is what his adoptors were heard to say he would be. Nor does it explain why the SPCA would adopt a dog to anyone who said it would be an "outside dog", no matter how the SPCA chooses to interpret that, and who said that it would be on a trolley line for more than a month until the fence could be built. What a pleasant start to Channing's new life...to be handed by strangers to another stranger and then put on a cable in a strange backyard.

That is not animal welfare.