Dan Smith was jailed Thursday for not having a Gatineau licence for a cat he says isn’t even his. […]
Who Smith does blame is an overzealous SPCA officer and a Gatineau bylaw, which requires cats to be licensed, but doesn’t make a distinction for a feral cat such as Winnie.
Odds are the bylaw is the work of an overzealous SPCA to begin with. If your SPCA has time to enforce cat licenses, your SPCA needs downsizing.
Couldn’t he have taken a dog licence and written the word “cat” in crayon?
Life imitates Python.
In my teen years, I worked as a volunteer for a charity bingo hall that basically rotated through various non-profits. On one weekend, it was the SPCA. During the intermission, I struck up a conversation with the director of the local SPCA office. During our talk, I asked him about the proportion of animals that were put down versus those that were adopted. As an aside, I asked him what they used for euthanizing them. “Potassium chloride?”, I asked.
“No, we gas them”, he replied.
“What do you use?”, I asked.
His reply shocked me: “Carbon dioxide. It’s pretty fast…45-60 seconds.”
Having already seen many animals killed with a rifle or shotgun, I was tempted to ask if he could appreciate the difference between less time than it takes for the sound of a gun blast at point-blank range to reach your ears versus 45-60 seconds. But, I was a volunteer and didn’t want to engage at that level.
Years later (in 2003), my then-girlfriend (now my wife) and I looked into getting a cat from the SPCA. I was thinking that it might be nice to spare one of these felines from their quirky idea of a gas chamber.
But the procedure for “qualifying” to take one of their animals home was simply too much: No kidding. You would have thought that we were applying to adopt a child. They wanted three character references…one of whom was preferably a lawyer or police officer. Plus, after we picked an animal, they wanted us to schedule a minimum of three sessions where we would come into their office and spend time with the cat we picked in a “play area” so that they could observe our interaction with the animal and determine that we were “a good fit.”
After about 10 minutes of the first session, I stood up and said, “This is nuts! We just wanted to save an animal from your gas chamber. But, we’re not sacrificing our dignity any more…even for that.”
That was the end. Right after, we headed to the local pet store an bought a calico for about 25 bucks.
I don’t know about cruelty to animals. But they sure have weird ideas about the appropriate way to treat humans.
I thought the animal rights activists didn’t like the idea of people owning animals. But they want people to get licenses too?
Thank God we have the cops to keep us safe from unlicenced cats!!!
Sorry … There are two taboos that will cause your total social excommunication in our fudged-up society: 1) Disparage homosexuality, and 2) Mock Animal lovers or Animal rights organizations. I refuse to comment on this idiocy 😉
If the City can charge someone a licence fee for a feral cat. They’ll make bit money.
Especially so, after they release the cats again, later!
Then in no time, they’ll be doing the same for pet birds, including the ones that come to the backyard bird feeder!
After that it will be for the birds that you bring home in your game bag.
Hunter: “But you can’t charge me a licence fee for these birds. They’re dead!”
City Bylaw Officer: “No matter that, pay up for each goose, duck and partridge or go to jail.”
Then he adds: “Someone has to fund my salary, retirement and raises.”
Just looked at the Sun poll. Apparently 462 respondents need to be taken out to a ditch and have a 9x19mm inserted into their cranial cavity.
police state.
coming to a city near you.
the very last thing I had to do with the humane society was Burlington ON around 1995.
I would walk the doggies so they could stretch their legs and calm down a bit to make them adoptable.
but liability if the dog was not calm and bit someone was entirely on me. that put an early and swift end to the walks.
fcuk ’em.
Stay away from SPCA folks, those are power hungry sociopaths. They could not care less about the animals in their care. Their aim is to subjugate animal owners pure and simple, there is nothing else to it. They are very dangerous, petty and incapable of a most basic self reflection apparatchiks who were too dumb to become parking enforcement officers, never mind regular cops.
One of them lives few houses from where I live. When my dog was losing her fight with cancer and it was clear that she does not have much time left, he approached me and ask about her. I have politely informed him that her state is none of his business and if following this conversation I have a visit from SPCA I will hold him personally responsible and I know where he lives… we occasionally pass each other on the street, he hasn’t tried to strike a conversation since.
“…they sure have weird ideas about the appropriate way to treat humans.”
That’s why they join the SPCA, or PETA, etc. Just as Colonialista describes them.
That’s not what the police are doing. Animal control does that. The police are keeping us safe from people who own unlicensed cats, and even more importantly, from people who don’t own those cats. They are the worst, there is not telling what that sort might do.
Maybe they could set up road blocks and shoot anyone with unlicensed pets in the car..
do police officers think they are doing their jobs reacting to such idiocy? if so they should not be surprised when people start telling them where to go and how to get there.
If your SPCA has time to enforce cat licenses, your SPCA needs downsizing.
I’d say that it needs extermination, myself.
468 now. I don’t know what else to say.
Did you see the article about the family in South Dakota whose dog was confiscated and the mother charged with animal cruelty? Apparently, they would leave the dog outside (in their backyard) to play in the snow for a few hours a day without shelter or water (in the winter). The dog is a husky. SPCA and cops…
It’s a good thing he turned himself in otherwise heavily-armed officers may have had to come to his house to take him forcefully and he could easily have been badly hurt or killed in the process.
This is not unique to Canada. Norman Oklahoma, the home of Oklahoma University, socialist and communist college professors and, David Boren (OU president) the Yale grad who does not approve of due process for campus students, and a city that has accumulated most of the nannys from the rest of the state (thusly improving everybody else’s lives), has similar laws about cats. When this many academicians accumulate in one place, things like this happen. It is educational that people that are cruel to animals eventually become cruel to people.
Two grammar points: That is a terrible, but true, run on sentence. I use “people that” instead of “people who” because they don’t deserve inclusion with sentient beings.
It used to be that the SPCA was staffed by well meaning folks who had this childish sentimentality that hade been built on Walt Disney movies. Nowadays the ranks seem to be filled with angry fanatics – many of them man haters – whose preference for animal companionship to the exclusion of humans is really a signal of the extent of their social retardation.
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“bryceman says… I don’t know about cruelty to animals. But they
sure have weird ideas about the appropriate way to treat humans.”
hey, you can’t even be jailed for cruelty to children these days…
“Almost half of all children living in foster care in 2011
were Aboriginal.”
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They were from Australia?
But try and get by-law services to do something about the guy who leaves his dog out to bark all night. The licence issue involves revenue. Thus, it must be enforced. They don’t care if your neighbour is a jerk.
What is happening to this guy is BS, but I hold issue with people who feed feral cats. It only took me 10 days to trap and dispose 14 feral cats last summer. Our gardens are safe again to weed and we aren’t woken up anymore from the late night feline fights.
We had support from the neighbors who too were tired of the feral population, but it didn’t take long to hear some of the missing cat complaints by others; and of course those who complained never admitted to “owning” the cat but admitted to feeding them.
I expect the police already know where to go and how to get there. Lots of people tell them that anyway.
Ottawa has nothing on Winnipeg…it is all about revenue.
http://www.winnipeg.ca/cms/animal/Fines.stm#cats
Bylaw officers have taken to driving around residential areas to put the squeeze pet owners…
Beautifully stated, and so very, very TRUE
It’s Quebec. They have bureaucrats to go around and make sure the language on your business signs are just the right height. This doesn’t surprise me in the least.
One of my best April Fool’s joke was 3 years ago. My buddy Luke, whose birthday is April 1st, had an ad placed on the local free internet buy sell website. It offered a spring special for Luke’s Kitten Extermination service. It was hilarious. He got a call mid day from the OSPCA telling him to take down his posting. He replied “What posting?” I love bugging cat people. They are insane.
Don’t forget to mention, Manitoba is a NDP sinkhole with a penchant for electing special interest mayors.
About 30 years ago our neighbor who had about 30 mongrels in various stages of domestication and freedom ended up in hospital to spend his final days. My wife called the RCMP and told them about the mutts and they said to call the SPCA, the closest of which were 2 hours away. The SPCA wasn’t the slightest bit interested.
Some neighbors, the names of which slip my memory in my old age, decided to take matters into their own hands and the dogs were quickly gone. When the RCMP were informed, they suspected my wife knew something and interrogated her. Her memory failed her too. Go figure.
There is WAY too much government when you have to pay for a cat licence.
Now now, animals don’t judge people.
That alone trumps reason ….
I don’t believe cats should be licenced, but they shouldn’t be allowed to roam free either. Dogs have to be under control, so it should be the same for cats. keep the $#@% things indoors with a litter box and they will live a long and happy life, maybe 20 years. Let them roam and they might make three years before disease or a terminal case of truck takes them.
Time to spay and neuter SPCA Gestapo members.
Why don’t we have serious laws against animal cruelty? Instead they go after ‘soft targets’, stealing hundreds of thousands from real animal lovers…
SPCA = Gestapo.
Yes they should be allowed to roam free. Really, they do no more harm to your garden than raccoons, skunks, rabbits, squirrels etc. F***, thanks to libtard policies we now got coyotes in GTA urban areas. Yes coyotes that are a clear threat for your children and all of your pets, and people are worried about cats? Seriously?
Cats are not dogs they are very different (they are also useless but I digress). The reason dogs need to be under control is because out of control dogs can be very dangerous. That does not apply to cats. Which is not say that I endorse all the idiotic restrictions on dog ownership either but that is a separate matter.
I have cats, i have dogs, no licenses, come and git me coppers come and git me…. they should be ashamed of themselves for having anything to do with this sort of nonsense. what they go home and it sounds like this?
Honey I’m home, what a day!
Oh sweetheart, what did you do today at work.
I saved our fair city and its vulnerable residents from the dreaded no pussy license.
My hero!
Insert visual of middle finger right about here.
On a more serious note; the OSPCA was empowered by the McGuinty Liberals with powers exceeding that of the police. For several years there were ongoing situations, especially in eastern Ontario, where OSPCA agents were grossly misusing this power and trampling over property rights. It is quite illustrative to witness how animal rights zealots, under the guise of animal control officers, can quickly turn from preventing animal abuse to abusing farmers and animal lovers constitutional rights.
I think the guvvermint should institute rewards for anyone who turns in a criminal who has unlicenced pets! They could start by educating kids in kindergarten to turn in anyone they know,even if it’s their parents!!!
Worked like a charm in Europe in the Old Days.
Here in the “Sunny Okanagan”, the local guvvermint is looking into charging entry fees for anyone who wants to use a “dog park”. We have strict laws about letting an animal off leash, unless it’s crack or meth head, so to let your dog have a good run you have to take it to a dog park where off-leash is allowed.
So now,they contemplate a fee for each use. Enforcement? They haven’t said anything about that yet,so I suggest hiring a full time bylaw officer at oh, $65,000 a year plus benefits, to police the dog parks.
The city will probably opt for charging a dog park user fee to every dog licence,though, as that would bring in revenue with no outflow. I’d say probably $25/year added on to the licence fee would be about right.
There is a fine of $175 for having your dog off leash anywhere but in a dog park.
The city employees are among the best paid employees in town and they have to keep finding ways to gouge the citizens more,but NOT raise taxes as that pisses voters off and a mayor or councillor might get the boot from the gravy train.
I intend to go to a council meeting and suggest a licence fee on cats, just to see if they are that desperate and out to lunch that they might consider it.
Here in Super,Natural B.C.,unlike Quebec we don’t allow a homeowner to not pay a fine or opt for jail instead. Here, any fine is added on to your property taxes, with interest every year,eventually ending in your property being seized if you don’t pay the fine.
Our guvvermnints have all angles covered to squeeze money out of us.
“…the OSPCA was empowered by the McGuinty Liberals with powers exceeding that of the police. For several years there were ongoing situations, especially in eastern Ontario, where OSPCA agents were grossly misusing this power and trampling over property rights…”
Dead on, farmerboy. And the Ontario Landowner Association and Ontario Farmer journalist Ian Cumming were the ONLY lonely voices who tried to wake up a sleeping public and a hostile/indifferent media (there was nothing but crickets and collusion from Ontario’s farm organizations.
SUN News (just before its demise) interviewed Ian about the OSPCA raids on the Amish; but our hopelessly compromised MSM has decided that it will only carry stories about animal abuse, not animal owner abuse.
The nice thing about a coyote problem is that it will solve your feral cat problem.
Circle of Life
Excellent idea.
We need to import some “Wile E” types here in Whacktoria, to combat our oversupply of Bambis and runny babbits, that despite being an infestation, the same animal nutters want to protect at all costs.
It is all fun and games until they attack your kid in the park playground at dusk. Yet another suicidal liberal policy.
I say bring in a bunch of cane toads. That’ll work.
This isn’t a cat license, it’s a dog licence with the word dog scratched out and cat written in in crayon
Man didn’t have the right form
Monty Python 1969
More and more the world resembles a Monty Python sketch, yet in 1969 it was as bizarre as one could imagine , and now it’s everyday