SPCA Influenced by Trial Lawyers Not Humane Mandate

Appearing on Fox News this morning, Newsroom with Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly, Rogier van Bakel relates the sad story of how the SPCA denied his family the opportunity to adopt a dog, named Baxter, because the couple had two children in the home. Mr. Bakel slams the SPCA for:

letting trial lawyers run their business... a litigious society... denied adoption... put animal to sleep, to protect their own behinds... a bigger problem for the SPCA, institutional behaviour on part of SPCA...

References, Salon.com article on treatment of animals

Rogier's blog

The Nannies of the SPCA

http://www.bakelblog.com/nobodys_business/2007/05/the_nannies_of_.html

Read more from Bakel's Blog

ASPCA: Dead Dogs Maybe Better Than Live Ones

...I thought that my local SPCA was accidentally staffed with petty, arrogant know-it-alls — that this was a fluke, not a nationwide institutional attitude.

Now I'm not so sure...

http://www.bakelblog.com/nobodys_business/2008/03/aspca-dead-dogs.html