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Women escaping violence were promised those spaces for their pets!

Posted By: Lyn MacDonald
Date: Saturday, 25 March 2006, at 8:59 p.m.

In Response To: SPCA considers running for-profit boarding (AAS)

The SPCA has a program called the Violence Link Project that implies it will compassionately board pets for women trying to escape violence. Some of the BCSPCA's branches will foster for women going in to Transition Houses, some will not. Some of the branches will make the woman surrender her animals, others will not. The BCSPCA has three flashy brochures about how it assists women trying to escape violence by fostering their pets when they are in Transition Houses, but very little on the ground help that is real, and has never answered my questions about their lack of consistency.

How can they even consider boarding for profit, until they have a viable policy available for crisis fostering?

Messages In This Thread

SPCA considers running for-profit boarding
AAS -- Saturday, 25 March 2006, at 8:29 a.m.

Logic is questioned
Hiroko Nakagawa -- Saturday, 25 March 2006, at 8:38 a.m.

SPCA's Compassionate Board form
Carol Sonnex -- Saturday, 25 March 2006, at 9:07 a.m.

Board at $20 a day all that was offered
AAS -- Saturday, 25 March 2006, at 9:17 a.m.

Where will they put these little money-makers?
Lyn MacDonald -- Saturday, 25 March 2006, at 1:19 p.m.

The BC SPCA should be helping these animals before even considering For-Profit Boarding
Carol Sonnex -- Saturday, 25 March 2006, at 9:31 a.m.

The SPCA is telling us the they have lots of space to now house private boarders?
Shirley Henderson -- Saturday, 25 March 2006, at 3:10 p.m.

Women escaping violence were promised those spaces for their pets!
Lyn MacDonald -- Saturday, 25 March 2006, at 8:59 p.m.