1. to free or deliver from confinement, violence, danger, or evil.
From the Services page of the Cape Breton SPCA http://www.capebretonspca.com/services.html (anything in green italics is of course not from the site but is commenting on the material therein )
Services
What the SPCA Chapters Do:
1. Rescue abandoned or distressed animals:
- no mention is made of the fact that the CB branch holds the AC contract for dogs only.
- Nor is their any indication that they accept all owner surrenders. Many of these are listed separately in their branch statistics as being killed by the request of the owner.
- Without funding for cats, they only include 66% of the cats taken into the shelter in their branch statistics.
2. Provide quick, humane disposal in cases where it is an act of mercy:
- In reality , according to the annual statistics on the provincial branch home page, the Branch has taken the liberty of redefining disproportionate numbers of the animals as being untreatable or unadoptable. Once again, these numbers are not included in their branch statistics.
- If one looks at the definition of humane ( characterized by tenderness, sympathy and compassion for people and animals; especially for the suffering and distressed ) and disposal ( disposing of, or getting rid of something ), it is an oxymoron to use those two words together to describe the killing of living sentient beings.
- Special permissions notwithstanding, continued use of the gas chamber violates Official Position Number: 600/E/10 of the provincial society.
3. Find homes for unwanted, healthy animals:
- While the CBFSS, http://www.cbfss.org/ , does work an adoption booth in the mall on saturday's for the CB Branch, there is nothing on the Branch website to offer potential adopters. Not one single picture exists on the Branch website of any cats or dogs that are available for adoption. Not one.
- Clicking on the dogs or cats for adoption link on the branch page links visitors to the Branch Petfinder page.... which is STILL completely empty. If they are receiving an average of 75 pets a week in the shelter ( that they will admit to ), having their petfinder page empty for the last three weeks means that 225 pets didn't get listed. Does it take longer to list the pets or to kill them?
4. Promote humane education:
- Their spay neuter page is a reprint of a flyer produced 13 years ago by CFHS. No mention is made there of the spay neuter assist program the CBRM offers.
- Their education page consists of a couple of paragraphs offering to go into the schools on request and the terse advice that pet ownership is a big commitment and if one is unsure, it is better not to adopt at all.
5. Investigate cases of cruelty or neglect involving household pets:
- Any investigation into cruelty should start with the Branch refusal to stop using their gas chamber to kill animals.
- In the recent and well publicized case where two hunters found a little dog nailed into a box that was submerged in a pond, the animal in question was immediately returned to his owner before any facts could be reasonably verified. Their chief investigator only mentioned to the media that he would look into the circumstances after a deluge of public protests in the comments section of the articles in the Cape Breton Post.
6 Cases involving livestock and wildlife are referred to the provincial investigator:
What the SPCA does not do:
- Does not take action in annoyance cases except where cruelty/neglect are involved-
- Does not put its inspectors at risk by allowing them to climb trees or hydro poles-
- Does not supply animals for scientific or medical research ( Why would that even need to be mentioned? )
Visit our webpages that describe the services we provide:
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