BC SPCA FEEDS THE IMMORAL RESELLING MARKET - WITH ONE OF ITS OWN DOGS! Two moral dog-lovers uncovered the fraudulent reselling on the internet of a French Bulldog named Wade Walker that had been purchased at a BC SPCA branch. In fact, the dog wasnt purchased from the SPCA until the scammer had seen on CraigsList that a couple were looking for a French Bulldog. The fraudster found a Wade Walker on an SPCA website, purchased him for $400, and then immediately offered him to the couple for $1,500. The couple were also smart. They saved every communication between the seller and themselves. Animal Advocates was told of this when the couple, after drawing it to the attention of the SPCA, assuming that the SPCA would take action to get Wade Walker back, were terribly disappointed to be told that the SPCA would do nothing. The SPCA is more immoral than the reseller in my opinion. She is only a small-time fraudster. The BC SPCA gets revenue of $32 million a year because it claims to be an animal welfare society, yet many SPCA policies are the antithesis of animal welfare. The SPCA says it makes adoptions. I say that it only sells animals. I say that because it hands over innocent helpless lives to anyone who lies convincingly on its application form. It admitted to the concerned couple that people lie on those forms, yet it took $400 for Wade Walker and handed him over. True animal welfare rehoming requires, at the least, two telephone screenings made by experienced screeners, and then a home check. Almost no one dishonest gets past those safeguards, especially the home check where it is hard for a liar not to be detected in the lies. But the SPCA would have to pay employees to do screening and home checks. More profit is made on each animal when less money is spent on it. I am not ever surprised at the depth of SPCA immorality. Nor is it a surprise that this reselling scam is happening. It was inevitable. The SPCA sells a desirable dog for $400 which is then resold for (in this case) as much as $1,500. The SPCA is feeding this market. And if it sells desirable small breed, young, healthy dogs imported from the U.S. (or will be importing and selling them as it has said it will), then a lot more innocent, helpless dogs will be streamed into the reselling internet market. Its not true, as the couple was told by an SPCA employee, that there is nothing the SPCA can do about the reselling of Wade Walker. Here is what the SPCAs adoption agreement says: If, during the first year of ownership I am unable to keep or otherwise provide for this animal, I will return it to the SPCA and will neither give it away or have it destroyed except on the advice of a veterinarian. I have heard that the SPCA explains this away by saying that the agreement cant be enforced, but it can of course. But only if the SPCA cares to spend the time and money on it. The SPCAs adoption form says that it can demand the pet back if the terms and conditions are found not to have been adhered to. But the new owner is the legal owner and recovering an adopted pet, if the owner doesnt willingly return the pet, requires a desire on the part of the SPCA to protect the pet. If the owner refuses to return the pet, the SPCA could take the owner to court and produce proof to a judge that the owner is in breach of the contract and to have the pet ordered returned to the SPCA (to be sold again)
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 14:00:57 +0000
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