Does the SPCA say that snake charming is science?

Posted By: Name withheld by request
Date: Wednesday, 26 January 2005, at 7:21 a.m.

Let me tell you my funny story about the SPCA's dog assessment testing. I was trying to adopt a dog at the Vancouver SPCA, just a little thing barely bigger than a minute, but it was so frightened of where it was that sometimes it bit strange hands that reached for it. The person doing the SPCA's scientific test on this dog, to determine if it lived or died, was a nice young man who said to me, "I don't know why I'm being told to do this, all I've ever owned is snakes that I trained to do tricks."

Does the SPCA say that snake charming is science? Well why not...it says its dog assessment test is science.

This nice young man said that if the dog bit the vet when it went to be neutered at the SPCA clinic that it would be put down for sure. A ten pound dog? I'm still scratching my head over that one! I did get the dog thank god, but it took a lot of begging. He still wasn't neutered (I guess they were all too afraid of him) so I took him to my own vet who was unperturbed about the possibly of being savaged by a ten pound dog.

Update: That was four months ago and no one from the Vancouver SPCA ever phoned to see if the dog was ever neutered. No one came and did a home check. It's a good thing, because I told them that I had no kids, no other dogs and no cats (they said my little guy would bite them). I have four kids, three dogs, and I foster cats and kittens and they are all very happy together.