"The four remaining animals were removed from the property under a clause of the BC Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act that enables SPCA cruelty officers to remove animals without a warrant if the seizure is necessary to save an animal's life."

In this case, if the SPCA's press release is to be believed (unfortunately, it is not reasonable to believe any SPCA press release as so many of them are false), the SPCA was justified in removing the sheep, even without a warrant.

We notice how carefully the press release explains this - now that the SPCA is close to being blown sky-high in the media for seizing a healthy mare and foal without a warrant.

Imagine if the police came onto your property and towed away your car without a warrant, on the grounds that they suspected something, and then told you to pay thousands of dollars to get your car back, even though no evidence was found, or your car would be destroyed or sold to someone else.

Except that, for some animal owners, this is more akin to coming without a warrant and seizing your children and then being forced to pay exorbitant sums of money to get them back.

Then the SPCA puts out a false press release and the owner is further victimized by being made to look like a monster who abuses helpless animals. Then, especially if the owner publicy objects, the SPCA hammers them harder, with legal threats, and demands for exhorbitant sums of money.

That is what SPCA inspectors are doing. With the knowledge and permission of the bosses. In fact, we believe, at the direction of BC SPCA CEO Craig Daniell, who has displayed, over and over, a propensity for punishing actions. We knew this before the Cheech affair, but that incident made Daniell's tactics clear to the media and a lot of shocked animal lovers.

This story of the two horses really 'has legs' once it gets out, because the SPCA didn't just unlawfully take private property, it then made the mare sick by giving medication (not needed, but given to justify the grounds on which the SPCA took the horses) in the wrong dosage, and then began starving the mare, returning her shockingly thin and with wounds.

Daniell could have defused this staggering error in judgement by one of his bully-boys, by quietly returning the horses immediately. But that is not Mr Daniell's style. Instead, the SPCA cranked up its legal threat-machine, saying it was going to sell the horses because the owner joined a public objection to the seizure.

Seizing and gagging...the BC SPCA at its finest. Gag the animals by selling them or killing them - gag the owners by forcing them to sign a silence agreement - or their animals will be killed.