Responsible Animal Care Decisions
Our responsibility to provide medical care to the animals sometimes means difficult choices need to be made.
The Toronto Humane Society has euthanized 6 dogs that were chronically ill, displayed aggressive behaviour, or whose quality of life due to illness or injury was severely diminished and who had been at the shelter for an extended period of time.
Our new euthanasia policy is clear that we will not house these animals in the shelter indefinitely as their medical and behavioural condition deteriorates and the possibility of them being adopted diminishes. Our policy dictates that we will continue to provide all necessary veterinary care to all the animals in the shelter. However, there is a time when euthanizing an animal is the appropriate medical and humane choice.
These decisions were made by the THS staff veterinarians as well as OSPCA contract veterinarians in consultation with THS Executive Director Garth Jerome.
http://www.torontohumanesociety.com/
RIP compassion.
RIP kindness.
And it is CRAP what they are saying. With perhaps two exceptions, there were NO dogs with irredeemable issues.
The OSPCA kill machine claims another adherent.
I hope all those people sleep well ... but of course they do - because after all, only perfect, adoptable animals deserve to live.
Under current legislation, the OSPCA cannot be held accountable for their actions. They are also not subject to Freedom of Information.
ReplyDeleteProtests & emails are a great start, but without changing the legislation anything achieved is temporary at best. The Ontario SPCA Act must be amended.
Make OSPCA accountability, transparency and independent oversight an election issue. (October 2011)