. . . David Buffett, president of the St. John's SPCA, said if the new act does nothing more than increase fines, it will "have failed miserably." There are at least a dozen areas that need to be addressed, he suggested. "(The current act) has been so lacking and so deficient in an endless number of ways, it's not even funny," said Buffett, who drafted proposals submitted to the province recently. Some of the items Buffett wants to see in the act are the ability for the judge to prohibit a person from owning future animals, broadened authority for the SPCA to euthanize animals, and putting the onus on a person to demonstrate their fitness to have a seized animal returned.
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