Apparently PSPCA does such a piss poor job of cleaning that it is having a "Garage Sale" of its shelter dogs so it can clean the shelter. Isn't that wonderful? They know they've got disease running rampant so they are discounting those dogs and getting them out in public as quickly as possible and very probably as disease ridden carriers to boot!
That's bad but it gets worse (we are talking about PSPCA after all).
"On Saturday an unidentified transport driver was busted by the Bureau of Dog Law Enforcement in Delaware County and charged with "selling dogs in a public place" - a violation of the state dog law. The 16 dogs were surrendered by the driver and sent to the Pennsylvania SPCA - which had just closed its animal intake facility and was desperately trying to reduce the number of its dogs, crowded into a garage, with a discount adoption event."
"Surrendered"? At the point of a gun basically! Give them up or go to jail for daring to transport dogs to new accommodations. Seriously, these dogs were in rescue and being transported to find new homes and some already had homes lined up. What? Can't PSPCA stand some competition? Or is it just hell bent on getting more animals into their contaminated facilities so they will die? Now the dogs aren't in the facility, they are exposed and crammed into a freaking GARAGE! (No criminal charges against the driver, of course. They got what they wanted, the dogs - most likely for the joy of killing them.)
Is this enforcement gone wild? Rescues pissing on each other? Someone PLEASE tell me the sense of animals being seized and forfeited (um, er, "surrendered") to a shelter that's admittedly disease ridden? Tell me how PSPCA isn't being cruel when it dumps an animal into such conditions? And, yeah, sure, like PSPCA is going to warn the owners buying pets at their garage sale. How is it not cruel to send them off to become ill and the new owners won't know to immediately seek medical care because they don't know the history.
Should SPCA have resources before confiscating? HELL YES. We watched as the SPCA of Texas took in 26,000 plus animals only to kill about half of them and disburse the rest across the country to mostly unknown and undisclosed circumstances precisely because they did not have the resources to do the job they volunteered for and do it correctly.
Should any shelter have resources and place any animal in conditions better than those from whence it came? HELL YES. Otherwise, keep your paws OFF other people's animals!!!