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Posted By: AAS
Date: Thursday, 29 March 2007, at 2:15 p.m.

In Response To: Four letters of many.... (Carmina Gooch)

----- Original Message -----
From: Animal Advocates
To: board@spca.bc.ca
Cc: cdaniell@spca.bc.ca
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 12:05 PM
Subject: Question: how can the SPCA claim to be concerned with the welfare of rabbits when it has a business relationship with Petcetera?

Dear Ms Troman and Members of the BC SPCA Board of Directors,

Your BC SPCA entered into a business partnership with Petcetera in 1997. The partnership was revealed as unethical from the very beginning. (Read Nick Read's Sun articles at: http://www.animaladvocates.com/petcetera/)

Your BC SPCA continues this business partnership with what is very likely the largest seller of rabbits in BC. At the same time, your BC SPCA urges people to not buy rabbits at Easter, for example. And at the same time, your BC SPCA, kills an untold number of rabbits a year.

Petceteras are used as free retail outlets for the selling of your dogs and cats. We have many reports of Petcetera staff selling dogs to very unsuitable people, and many reports of staff who are ignorant of dog behaviour and welfare being permitted to sell SPCA dogs. And to the best of our knowledge, there are no home checks made, so SPCA dogs may be being sold to be abused, neglected, kept in yards and on chains.

We urge you to discontinue your business partnership with Petcetera.

We look forward to your earliest reply,

Judith Stone, President,
Animal Advocates Society of BC
The AAS web mag: www.animaladvocates.com
The Watch Dog messageboard: http://animaladvocates.com/cgi-bin/newsroom.pl

(There was no reply of course.)

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Messages In This Thread

Rabbit sales to be phased out in Petcetera stores across BC *PIC*
Carmina Gooch -- Tuesday, 27 March 2007, at 3:35 p.m.

SPCA announcement
Carmina Gooch -- Tuesday, 27 March 2007, at 9:39 p.m.

Petcetera to stop selling bunnies before Easter
Carmina Gooch -- Wednesday, 28 March 2007, at 4:44 p.m.

Why just stop selling rabbits in the Lower Mainland before Easter?
Diane Esther -- Friday, 6 April 2007, at 8:28 a.m.

Petcetera could easily make the right decision
Carmina Gooch -- Friday, 6 April 2007, at 12:49 p.m.

Now if we could only put enough pressure on EVERY pet store so that they would stop selling ALL animals
Diane Esther -- Tuesday, 27 March 2007, at 4:26 p.m.

Live Rabbit Giveaway
Lisa Hutcheon -- Tuesday, 27 March 2007, at 9:43 p.m.

Rabbit rescuers like Carmina Gooch, with access to a public form that allows a voice of the other side to be heard... *LINK*
AAS -- Thursday, 29 March 2007, at 11:13 a.m.

Four letters of many....
Carmina Gooch -- Thursday, 29 March 2007, at 11:47 a.m.

Just one of many from AAS... *LINK*
AAS -- Thursday, 29 March 2007, at 2:15 p.m.

SPCA warns against impulse purchase of bunnies for pets
Carmina Gooch -- Monday, 2 April 2007, at 6:11 p.m.

Re: SPCA warns against impulse purchase of bunnies for pets
Carmina Gooch -- Monday, 2 April 2007, at 9:21 p.m.

Bunny Debate
Carmina Gooch -- Thursday, 19 April 2007, at 9:53 p.m.

Nanaimo Petcetera and Paws 'n Jaws selling rabbits, but not PetsMart
Robert Brodgesell -- Tuesday, 3 April 2007, at 1:25 p.m.

Abandoned rabbits at the Nanaimo airport *PIC*
Robert Brodgesell -- Tuesday, 3 April 2007, at 2:39 p.m.

Helping rabbits in the Okanagan
Carmina Gooch -- Wednesday, 4 April 2007, at 7:43 p.m.