"... Am not only there for the dogs, it is also for the cats. We have to HELP THE ANIMALS AND IT DOES NOT MEAN WE ARE SUPPORTING THE "EUTHANASIA" ..."
Sayang, tak ada orang pun yang cakap that you who volunteer at SPCA to help the animals are supporting the wrongly used term "EUTHANASIA" where healthy animals are killed (it is "killing" ... the term "euthanasia" is used for sick animals that have very poor chances of survival, not the healthy animals simply because they cannot find adopters for them). Anum nak voluteer the saving and helping part tu go ahead la, sesuatu benda yg baik pun ... jangan salah anggap dgn cepat ...
Tapi, dah malas nak cakap dah, it is too emotional and orang yg tak kena mengena tu cepat naik marah sebab ingat kita tuju kat dia simply sebab dia volunteer kat sana ...
Anyway, saya dah cedok sejarah dan dapati bahawa this issue is one of the main reasons Sabrina Yeap (SPCA's passionate and dedicated animal inspector of 15 full years ... and Sherrina Krishnan, formally SPCA staff as well ...) packed up and left SPCA Selangor to set up her own no-kill shelter, the now famed Furry Friends Farm (FFF) after a big fall-out with SPCA Selangor ... and Sabrina Yeap is doing a lot of TNRs around, bless her good heart. And then there is the legal suit against Sherrina Krishnan by SPCA Selangor ... so what I thought about after seeing the activities of modern SPCA around the world had been pursued by these two blessed ladies to save the healthy animals from being killed unnecessarily and the blank wall that they banged their heads against and in the end, they simply left to do it on their own (not NATO as claimed by the uninformed bystanders) and which many of us IPRs are doing on our own using our own hard-earned pocket $$$ but stubbornly being labelled as NATO simply because we keep a very low profile are not publicity nor credit hungry as some opportunistic people who do much less.
... and FFF with Sherrina are pushing through a LOT of adult awareness education programs on their own. Great work, ladies ... my $$$ in contribution to animal welfare will definitely go to you and your programs and I know that they will have been put to good use.
Nivek, if SPCA Penang is doing it, good lah, step up the steam ... TNRs is the only proven effective way to control the stray population and we need to educate the public to accept that animals have a right to live alongside humans in the community area even as strays through managed stray colonies and they must not resent the animals (and insist that the animals be starved to death hoping they will disappear) or the colony caregivers (they cannot hurl abuses or scold them) which feed them daily at discreet feeding stations and provide medical care for the sick ones.