The Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will conduct an on-site inspection with sea mammal experts at Marineland after eight former employees told the Star of animal suffering caused by recurring water problems, as well as staffing shortages.
“We’ve got to do what’s best for the animals’ welfare,” said Connie Mallory, chief licensing inspector for the SPCA.
“As soon as the concerns came forward, we started to move the wheels,” to address them, she said Thursday. “We treat very seriously what was brought forward in the paper”…