Did any one see 20/20 tonight, about the SPCA..

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Just found this in case anyone is interested:

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=817494&page=1

From the article:

Some animal owners claimed that when they became overextended in caring for their animals, an SPCA accused them of neglect, confiscated their animals and sold them.

The SPCAs then keep the money.

I think the show should investigate how MUCH money shelters put into every animal in their care. I don't see why they would have to give the money to the abusive/neglectful owners. The adoption fee almost never covers the cost of caring for the animal so its not like they're making money.

The article at least pointed out that every SPCA is different, which is a crucial point. They should have made that more apparent though.

**edit** Grr, I just noticed there were 4 pages of the article and read the rest of it. It really made me mad with the way they portrayed that. All of the cases they described sounded valid and reasonable to me. I seriously do NOT think a good "breeder" would have 120 DOGS There's no way she could properly care for ALL of them, no way. And it doesn't matter what they're worth... the shelters will not charge $600 just because a dog is pure-bred. Some of them may have slightly higher prices for pure-breds, but most don't.