Understanding The Work Of The SPCA (Not Just The SSPCA)

Imagine a roof that's leaking whenever there's rain.

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So you put a pail under each leak.

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Then imagine more leaks appear.

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So you find more pails and put one each under every leak everytime it rains.

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The problem is the leaks need to be patched up or when they get too many, the roof needs to be replaced.

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The roof represents people.

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The leaks represent animal abuse and dumpings.

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The pails represent animal shelters.

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Building more animal shelters is NOT the solution to the problem.

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We need to attack the cause which is irresponsibility, cruelty, ignorance and a whole lot of other human excuses.

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SPCAs are NOT just places or people who take care of animals. Our main aim is to take care of people who do NOT take care of animals. There will always be strays in the world and for every stray which is dumped to a shelter (and usually put down aka killed because it cannot find a home), there is one cage less for an animal in urgent need of a safe and quiet place to recover from illness or wounds.

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We get owners saying that we must take care of their sick or wounded pets because that's the job of the SPCA which again brings us back to the problem of ignorance and irresponsibility. Most of our work is with strays because they have no owners to take them to the vets so we must step in to help BUT strays have not and will never be our main priority because the roof is leaking more and more out there whilst the public continue misunderstanding our true purpose and hinder our work by spreading the wrong information about us.

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Richard Lim

30th May 2013