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Originally Posted by Jack
Wierd how an animal is or isn't labled an animal by who knows who. Kind of a botched system. What's the point of an SPCA that only deals with half the bunch.
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I worked for the Alberta SPCA a number of years ago. They, as all SPCAs and humane societies, rely on public donations to operate, so if you're not a regular contributor to, or member of, your local humane society, you don't have a right to complain about what they do or don't do
That being said, here is the The Animal Protection Act of Alberta:
http://www.albertaspca.org/APA.HTM
And here is the current Criminal Code of Canada deal with cruelty to animals:
http://www.albertaspca.org/criminalcode.htm
SPCA and humane society constables can only enforce the laws of the land. Those laws are only created or amended at the request of people like us. However, as it states at the top of the Criminal Code of Canada page, it's taken 20 years to make amendments to the CC of C with regard to cruelty to animals and that has only happened by continuous lobbying by humane societies across the country
Jack, I was reading our local newspaper the other week that someone had discovered that fish feel pain. So if the prevailing attitude has always been that that fish don't physically sense pain, how the heck can we be cruel to them!??!!!
Anyway, I think humans are such a screwed up species because it's us that create the need for SPCAs in the first place
