This is what anyone searching for adoptable pets at the Cape Breton SPCA has seen for the past week. Once again, they are back to not even bothering to list any pets on their petfinder page.
For a few months, they were listing a few, mostly young pets, for a month at a time... then the listings would be replaced with a few more young pets... then after a few more weeks, another handful of young pets.
None of the pertinent info that adopters are looking for was included. Were these pets housetrained/vaccinated/altered? Nobody could tell. Nothing of their personalities shone through any of the sparse descriptions. Never an appealing or even a sad tale to tug at the heart.
No mention of their gas chamber is made anywhere on the official Cape Breton SPCA site, http://www.capebretonspca.com/. If one did not go and read the annual reports from the AGM that are listed on the Reports and Minutes page of the provincial society webpage, one would have no idea that the gas chamber is still being used at all. http://www.spcans.ca/resources/reports_minutes.html
We all know that things are tough all over. We all know that there will be a lot more belt tightening at every level of government. So we all know that makes everything just so much tougher for the island of Cape Breton.
Cape Breton is one of the most spectacularly beautiful places in Canada. Some of the most brilliant and creative people in our history were born and raised there. It has inspired some of the most brilliant creations in both scientific and artistic history. It is world famous for its preservation of the Gaelic language and culture.
On the front door of the Cape Breton SPCA Branch website, they announce that they admitted 3977 animals last year. (That figure should be taken with a very large grain of salt, given the propensity for the branch to deduct nearly two thousand animals as being 'unhealthy and unadoptable" from their statistical total ) Still, using 3977 as a benchmark, that means that on an average, over 75 animals were admitted to the branch every week. Three hundred a month.
It goes without saying that an island with a steadily dwindling population and increasing job losses might be hard pressed to find nearly 4000 good homes for the animals every year. That is still no excuse for the gas chamber. Not when:
- There are few, if any animals listed on their www.petfinder.com site
- The only thing they seem to keep asking the provincial branch for is permission to keep using the gas chamber
- The branch president does not attend the BOD meetings
- Queries from the public addressed to the branch level are either ignored or treated in a very unprofessional fashion
- The branch holds the AC contract for the CBRM, yet no requests for additional resources can be found in any of the CBRM Protective Services meetings.
In other words, as long as the Cape Breton Branch has permission to use the gas chamber, it has no need to change anything. Its just too easy for them to kill the animals, rather than put some energy into finding better solutions. If there was no gas chamber, if there was no crematorium to dispose of the evidence, would they still keep on killing?
If Santa really wants to do something for the animals in Cape Breton, he could start with that.
6 comments:
No Santa didn't get to CB BUT the GRINCH did - Patsy Rose is the branch manager and she runs the show like it's her own home. She doesn't feel she has to answer questions from anyone, any agency especially provincial office. Judith Gass had TWO gas chambers in her sights to destroy. ONE was the metro one which her and Pam Keddy videotaped when that one was destroyed and TWO was Cape Breton and here it is 5-6 years later and STILL the animals are being gassed to death. CBRM just gave them more money for a spay and neuter program - where did it go????? They have a new thrift shop too to get additional funding. WHY is it that Provincial Office doesn't deal with that branch. Where is the EVER SO CHARMING Sean Kelly, SPCA spokesperson? HE NEEDS TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS FOR THAT BRANCH. Cape Breton doesn't get on the map until the crap hits the fan. Well it looks to me that head office doesn't care. The Celtic Pets fiasco was a show stopper BUT the show goes on in the Sydney Branch. COME ON SEAN - PUT YOUR MILITARY BACKGROUND INTO ACTION AND GO DOWN THERE AND GET THE JOB DONE OR ARE YOU ALL TALK? This issue has been raised for years. NOTHING. They won't even post on a FREE website!!!!!!!
The CB SPCA has its own board and does not answer to the SPCANS. Sean Kelly has no power to change anything in CB unless the CB board is willing. Put pressure on those people, not the SPCANS.
Ahhhh, but if you read the bylaws, the branches all fall under the jurisdiction of the provincial society.
Right on Granny! For the poster who said "put the blame on the CB Board" this is CRAP - C R A P. They have the SPCA name and they fall under the Provincial Society and IF they don't, then why is the CB Branch at the annual AGM's giving their reports every year and why are they getting food from the shelter in metro and why did the Provincial office pay to have the Sydney Branches floor redone and WHY did metro give them all their extra Kuranda beds?????? ANY ANSWERS?????????? we are all waiting.
EXACTLY. And at the big press conference over which Sean presided, he and Mary HIll both answered questions about imposing standards on all the branches, including Cape Breton. Then he spoke about it very much as a branch under the NS board, not a separate one.
And when asked what they would do if a certain branch disregarded the new standards (that they have yet to create let alone impose), they both waffled, and said they didn't want to do anything that would cause "a branch" to secede from the SPCA. God forbid! Better to include these barbarians? What for?
If the Cape Breton branch left the SPCA, the SPCA could FINALLY lay the cruelty charges it so deserves!
DO YOUR JOB OR SOMEBODY ELSE WILL! THE REST OF CANADA AND THE WORLD ARE DISGUSTED WITH YOU! AND SO AM I!
Well said!!!!
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