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FINES IMPOSED on errant dogs picked up by the SPCA
are too high, according to North Vancouver City Ald.

Stella-Jo Dean and a local grandmother who recently shell-
ed out $95 to get a dog out of the pound.

Amelia Searle, 82, who looks
after her grandson’s Siberian
husky, wrote a letter to city council
complaining about the fines she
had to pay when ‘‘Bear’’ slipped
out of her yard and was found
playing in the park across the
street.

“FE do not object to a park
penalty,’’ Searle said, ‘‘but the rest
is too much for a dog that is
spayed and licensed and not

bothering anybody.”

Ald. Dean agreed, and pushed
to have the matter of fines taken
back to

the Animal Welfare

By MAUREEN CURTIS
Contributing Writer

Committee, of which she is a
member.

She also said charges on first
time offences should be waived
with a warning.

“e's horrendous to charge like
that; it’s practically usury,’’ Dean
said,

She also pointed out that many
people might not be able to pay the
fines.

‘*What is the good of overcharg-

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MRS. A.F. Searle is unhappy that she had to pay $95 for the return of
her grandson’s dog ‘‘Bear’’ after the dog slipped out of the yard and
went to play in the pack.

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ing if the SPCA ends up having to
find a new home for the dog or put
it down eventually and have to
feed it in the meantime,’’ said
Dean.

Searle's dog was not only fined
$30 for being in the park, but also
$30 for running loose, a $30 pound
fee and a $5 maintenance charge.

Dean asked why the city has a
maintenance charge even when the
dog is claimed the same day it is

picked up.

North Vancouver District, which
has roughly the same fine sched-
ule, does not do this, she said.

Searle, who is keeping the dog
while her grandson looks for work,
has since had string strung around
the top of her fence to keep the
dog in.

But Dean went on to question
SPCA animal control officer Jeff
Lawson why he would pick up

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