SPCA warns of Parvo

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/9016214.html

Parvovirus outbreak linked to area of Shubie Park

By OUR STAFF
Thu. Apr 29 - 3:41 PM

Dog owners are being warned about recent cases of canine parvovirus in animals who've been in the Shubie Park area, from the Shubenacadie Canal to Dartmouth Crossing.

A local veterinary hospital passed the information along to the Halifax Regional Municipality, which released the warning today.

Posters have been placed in park to notify owners.

The SPCA had already issued a notice of an increase in the number of cases of parvovirus.

The virus is transmitted when a dog comes into contact with the feces of an infected animal.

The intestinal tract is where most of the damage occurs when it enters the body. The virus can kill a dog. It's most serious for puppies, but the disease can also be fatal for adult dogs.

Vomiting, watery and foul-smelling bloody diarrhea, weight loss, and lethargy are all symptoms. The incubation period is three to seven days.

HRM is reminding dog owners ofthe importance of picking up after their pets.

(webeditors@herald.ca)

I guess now if a certain dog gets sick, it will be said it is parvo and the SPCA caused it....

donations could be helping the homeless or abused

It sickens me, truly sickens me to think about all the money donated to one particular cause that could be put to so much better use on helping the homeless or the ill or the abused. People who haven't chosen to be in the predicaments they are. I can only hope and pray the people donating can see that their money is being wasted and can whole heartedly go to bed at night not wondering if their money could have really been making a difference in someone's quality of life. By quality of life, I do not mean taking someones hard earned money and spending it on pampering oneself while others are in such distress. Pleeeease people, wake up!

Vacation...while the dog is awaiting her fate.

Found this on Fran's twitter

# Back from wonderful yoga retreat @ Mersey River Chalets, now I just need to get rid of the sore muscles!! about 3 hours ago via web

How does she manage this while begging the world for money to help pay for her lawyers?

Show me the money!!!!

http://www.cafepress.ca/freebrindi!!!

Someone seems to be trying to make her cause a full time paying job. Will the begging ever stop??
If everyone that had a problem in life and went on the internet looking for money, what a boring world it would be, I would suggest better organizations that are in much more need of $ than Brindi's owner.
I hate to say it, however, because of Brindi's owner we could create a site to donate to the SPCA in memory of Brindi,whose life was taken because of an owner who was not responsible.

Fran believes that the HRM is on a witch hunt for her... This is a real witch hunt.

http://www.bramptonguardian.com/news/article/802381--dogs-freed-ruled-not-pitbulls

This is from a REAL RESPONSIBLE OWNER

“I’ve never once doubted Brittany was not a pitbull, which is why from day one I fought this so hard,” Branco said. “If I truly believed I was guilty of breaking a law I would have shipped her off to save her life and in the process saved thousands of dollars.”
Branco has spent more than $20,000 in legal fees and just recently agreed to the independent vet’s examination in order to get the dogs back. If he had taken the city to court, he estimates it would have been many more months before the case could be heard, and thousands of dollars in addition. He was concerned about the dogs’ wellbeing because they were being held in the city pound for so long.

To bad he couldn't teach it to Fran.

See this is the difference in people who truely love their dog. They would do whatever it takes to save their life first. Then if need be to get them out of and off death row, they would even get them into another home.

Brindi still may have a chance to live.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2010/04/16/ns-brindi-dog-death.html

A Dartmouth provincial court judge will decide April 30 if Brindi the dog should be put to death.

After a hearing Friday, Judge Alanna Murphy reserved decision on whether to have the animal put down as a threat to the public welfare, have it returned to its owner, or hand it to a third party for continuing care.

Geoff Newton, a lawyer for the City of Halifax, argued that Brindi should be put down for the safety of the public and other animals.

Trainer Ted Efthymiadis, hired by the dog's ower, Francesca Rogier, told the court Friday that he doesn't believe that Brindi is an overly aggressive dog.

"There's no reason why she can't be rehabilitated - with proper training and follow-up maintenance training - to be able to be, honestly, like a normal dog," Efthymiadis testified.

Newton questioned the trainer's credentials, and Efthymiadis admitted Brindi could not be assessed at her own home, where she might be more territorial.

The trainer said if the dog is allowed to live, she should never leave her own property without a muzzle.

Rogier has agreed to more training and having the dog wear a muzzle, if her pet's life is spared.

Brindi, a six-year-old Sheppard mix, spent two years at a shelter before she was adopted by Rogier in 2007.

After several aggressive confrontations with other dogs, Brindi was placed under a muzzle order. But in July 2008, she got loose from her East Chezzetcook home and bit another dog.

That's when Halifax by-law officers seized Brindi. The dog was scheduled to be euthanized in August 2008, but the procedure was was postponed after Rogier made her application to the court.

Last month, the judge found Rogier guilty of three violations — letting her dog run loose, ignoring an order for Brindi to wear a muzzle and owning a dog that has attacked another dog.

Murphy agreed to delay sentencing so Rogier could get an animal behaviouralist to assess her dog. Brindi has has been impounded at the SPCA for the last two years.

The city's lawyer is not seeking excessive fines for those convictions, but he wants Brindi put down.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2010/04/16/ns-brindi-dog-death.html#ixzz0lISJ9lBO


She cares so much for the dog she will use SHOCK COLLARS on this poor dog. SOME LOVING CARING OWNER SHE IS. NOT!!!

This article is a year old however I still think its worth a read.

BRIDGEWATER — An American agency that works for the legal protection of animals says Nova Scotia has one of the best systems in Canada when it comes to anti-cruelty laws.

"I was kind of surprised Nova Scotia was ranked in the top tier," said Mary Hill, secretary of Nova Scotia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said Thursday.

"Upon closer reflection you have to bear in mind this is comparative and it says a lot more about the ranking of the other provinces that are lower on the list than it does about our legislation. It just means the other provinces have worse legislation."

The California-based Animal Legal Defense Fund released a report this week that said Nova Scotia is "one of the worst places to be an animal abuser."

For the second year in a row, it ranked this province in the top tier, along with British Columbia, Manitoba and Ontario, for its animal protection laws.

New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Quebec were rated on the bottom tier while Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Yukon and Saskatchewan were placed in the middle tier.

Ontario was judged best while the Northwest Territories and Nunavut tied for worst.

The report said Nova Scotia ranked high because its laws allow judges to order abusers to reimburse the costs of care for an impounded animal, place restrictions on the abuser’s ability to own animals in the future and imposes increasing fines on repeat offenders.

But Ms. Hill said even though the province requires the society to enforce the Animal Cruelty Prevention Act and the new Animal Protection Act, it only gives the society $3,000 a year to do that.

Despite that, the society secured three animal cruelty convictions. They include Digby-area puppy brokers Gail Benoit and Dana Bailey; Alan Elliott, who had 130 cows seized from his farm in Spa Springs, Annapolis County, and Alice MacIsaac and her mother Zonda MacIsaac of Celtic Pets Rescue in West Bay Road, Cape Breton. The latter case alone cost the society more than $110,000.

The Agriculture Department gave the society a one-time lump sum of $100,000 last month "but it’s a drop in the bucket," Ms. Hill said. "We welcome it, but it’s not enough and it’s not ongoing."

That money covers the salary and expenses of 1.5 cruelty investigators. The society has 2.5 and Ms. Hill said it needs at least six to fulfil its obligations.

The society investigated 1,264 cruelty complaints in 2008 and 496 this year. Thirteen charges have been laid as of May 21. Other than the money from the Agriculture Department, the society’s only other sources of money are donations, bequests and fundraisers. Last year, with the help of 78 fundraisers across the province, the society raised just over $425,000, which left it with a $35,000 shortfall.

The province has passed new legislation called the Animal Protection Act, which requires veterinarians to report suspected abuse and to define acceptable standards of care for animals. But Ms. Hill said the legislation doesn’t go far enough.

However, since the regulations haven’t been written yet, Ms. Hill hopes the society will have a role in developing them so that they include specific wording that deals with animal fighting and puppy mills.

( bware@herald.ca)
By BEVERLEY WARE South Shore Bureau

PLEASE READ,,,,,,, The Realist

Important note: please read before posting on this blog

For the love of God, for the love of dogs and for the love of
everyone's sanity, PLEASE do your homework before you post anything on
this site. Read, read some more and then go back and reread it all
again.

The collective 'WE' who post on this site displaying feelings of
frustration and anger towards the actions of Fran that affect not only
her dog but are now becoming more personal and quite scary in nature,
are whole heartedly concerned for Brindi. Bottom line.

I don't want to read any more nonsense about how Fran has Brindi's
best interest at heart. She had to get a stay of execution due to her
complete lack of understanding and respect for the local laws. AGAIN,
bottom line.

I don't want to respond like a broken record anymore to those who are
too ignorent to understand the law and why it is in place and what the
consequences are if you choose not to follow it.

Back to basics here people....a little common sense goes a loooong way!

--

Straight from South Africa

Trish Malkoff said...

Hi Gail

Re: "Fran Hit the Radio"

This is the 'oh so moral law abiding citizen of South Africa' checking in. I've only just stumbled on your sweet little poison-pen blog (although I'm familiar with Joan's even more elevating 'dogkisser' self appreciation society blog) and I think it would be a great service to the supporters and opposers of Francesca and Brindi alike, if you spelt out exactly which of Francesca's statements on the radio were lies.

I've made it my business to appraise myself of the real knowledge of the case by searching through objectively factual websites, such as http://www.123people.com/s/francesca+rogier, reading most of the articles in the press, the letters from the deputy mayor and the SPCA, most available reports, blogs, comments - for and against etc., etc., etc., - as well as some of the court transcripts themselves, as kindly suggested by Mary Ellen Donovan herself. So now is your chance to re-educate me and the public at large, specifically as to exactly how and where the story of the facts are once again changed, if indeed they ever were?

Furthermore, I'm so glad you think it funny that people of sensitivity and a genuine selfless desire to right wrongs, no matter where they may be happening in the world, and to involve themselves in the prevention of cruelty to animals, are wasting their time!

My response to Ms Donovan's "No Comment" was not that of one of Brindi's angel's 'waking up', it was a calculated inditement of the wantonly callous behaviour of all the responsible officials of the City of Halifax and their utter indifference to the Court of Public Opinion.

Note to The Realist: I got exactly the response I was looking for.. passing the buck, denial, no comment and general high & mighty officialdom, whilst all the time sidestepping the heart of the issue. That's exactly what I wanted the public to hear for themselves, as I had already experienced in previous phone calls to the mayor's office.

And all of you Dog Lovers (or definately 'NON' in my moral opinion) should get your legal facts straight: that phone recording was NOT illegal in terms of your own Canadian law! Refer to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_recording_laws#Canada

http://www.callcorder.com/phone-recording-law-canada.htm

"CANADA
Canadian law requires that at least one party in the phone call be aware of the recording.[1][2][3]"

I was one of the parties in the phone call and I was aware of the recording.

You are therefore obliged to publish a retraction of your libellous statement.

I am not red-faced about anything at all in that phone call and neither I nor anyone in Let's Adopt Canada who uploaded it have any intention of ever dismantelling that link. In fact I have more calls planned and now that everyone knows I record them on Skype, I wonder who'll have the courage to speak to me online. For my part, I'll talk to anyone. My skype name is trish.malkoff.

Last but not least, I think it's so sad that you only have 3 followers and Joan only has 49, but never fear, I will be publishing all of this to my Facebook Profile and Groups and copying Let's Adopt Groups round the world, so everyone can see for themselves the full extent of what it is Francesca and Brindi are up against in their fight for life, liberty and justice. However, you never know, maybe you'll find some friends and supporters of your own in your crusade against Francesca and Brindi. Good luck.

In the meantime, please do not insult dogs by calling yourselves dog lovers and dogkissers.
Friday, April 02, 2010