As of the end of October / start of November 2013, the NSPCA has advised the Rustenburg SPCA and its committee that no "out-of-town" adoptions will be allowed. The mind literally boggles that the NSPCA would step in to cut short one of the positive testaments to public / SPCA partnership. Dogs and cats who now find themselves at the Rustenburg SPCA will need to pin all their hopes for a 2nd chance on local adopters. And this despite the many outlying animal lovers who are prepared to make the trip through to Rustenburg because they have fallen in love with one particular little face in their adoptions album. With hundreds of animals streaming in, and only 10-20 being adopted (at best) by locals, the maths speaks for itself. They are doomed. Stuck in dead-end cages, for a dead-end fate. I ask again - at what stage do rules become death sentences? At what stage is it time for good people to stand up and ask the difficult questions? When you next donate to the animal welfare cause, because you want to make a difference to a life, to this world... where will your money go?
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