It’s been a brutal year for the animal welfare community in Pinellas Co, Florida where Martha Boden, CEO of SPCA Tampa Bay arranged a partnership with two businesses in the puppy mill industry, Pinnacle Pets and Sunshine Puppies.

Thanks to the SPCA Tampa Bay board of directors, Ms. Boden closes out the 2023 year with a legacy of betrayal to the animal welfare industry, donors and especially to the Pinellas County animals.

Who wins and who loses ?

Winners

Ms. Boden’s bank account is a winner, hauling in a whopping salary of $178,844.

The agency’s treasury.  It is sitting on cash and liquid investments of $8,100,000 and has a balance sheet reflecting $15,900,000 in assets

Pinnacle Pets and Sunshine Puppies.  They’ve acquired a new spokesperson for the dark and torturous industry

B2 communications, the pr firm employed by  SPCA.

Losers

The Board of Directors:

Catherine Mitchell                            Andy Gaunce                      Tina Thomas                      Stacy Nethercoat

Beverly Frank                                     Dr. Julie Kessel                   Sasha Lohn ESQ                 Mark Martukovich

Erica Maxwell                                     Stephanie Morge              Michael Price                     Julie Rockwell

Trevor Tillwick

These people may be nice individuals who excel in their respective professional arenas, but they have sealed their fate as being worthless as a director of an animal welfare organization. They have brought shame to  themselves, the SPCA and the community for enabling and rewarding Ms. Boden to navigate the agency to be the most untrust worthy, unprincipled, and despised animal welfare agency in the nation. Their inaction translates to their support of Ms. Boden.

Martha Boden

Ms. Boden’s administrative policies indicate an unmistakable commitment to serving self over serving others.  Her acumen for fund raising is without question.  It assures her progressive annual salary increases but does nothing to change the trajectory of the agency continuing as a slaughterhouse that kills more animals than it adopts out.

Take a moment and visit here . Scroll down to the CEO’s imagine.  If the eyes are the window to the soul, what do you see in there?

Ms. Boden is an opportunist who took (and is taking) advantage of an animal welfare organization and community for self-enrichment.

She is an imposter, a fraud and has no issue with lying. The animal welfare community, local and national, knows this. In her bio is stated “Prior to joining SPCA Tampa Bay, Boden was CEO of the Humane Society of Indianapolis, where she implemented programs that increased the animal placement rate, reduced the euthanasia rate and improved customer service.” Wrong.  She was fired for destroying community trust and running the agency into debt. An entire community, past HSI board members, replacement hire CEO can share another story.

Donors

Uninformed donors who contribute to this SPCA fund raising enterprise probably will never know that their donations went to funding travel expenses for Ms. Boden and 12 staff members (13 total) 5X to visit with puppy miller Pinnacle Pets to craft a partnership to import breeder dogs and puppies to sell at the SPCA.  How much was the cost of donor dollars for 65 round trip tickets between Tampa & Missouri? Probably close to around $12,000 based on round trip flight costs at that time.

In THE NEW BARKER article “An Unsavory Partnership? You Decide,” Ms. Boden observed that “The facilities were beautiful,” said Boden. “And we learned that they run their kennels very similar to the way we run our shelter.”

Let us look at this beautiful facility

The Animals

SPCATB’s withdrew participation (09/28/23) from the low cost spay/neuter voucher program and instead entered into an agreement to provide veterinary services to Sunshine Puppies, a retailer selling puppy mill puppies from Pinnacle Pets

The SPCA Tampa Bay kills more animals than it adopts out and kills about 50% of the animals it takes in.

SPCA has become little more than a retail sales outlet for dogs and puppies who will fetch a $700-$1,000 price tag and an executionary for those animals who appear to inconvenience this agenda.

“Happy New Year” is hard to declare for at-risk animals everywhere, especially in Pinellas County where one agency is doing its best to send animals to the landfill and uphold and defend the reign of its empress who wears no clothes.

This is upside down in a bad, bad way.