I'd like to point out that the BC SPCA still has a business partnership with Petcetera, a store with 17 outlets in BC that sells live animals, especially rabbits, which then are typically abandoned and reproduce until communities hire killers to wipe them out. All the little groups then have to raise thousands of dollars and work themselves half to death trying to save the rabbits while the SPCA takes very few of them and actually approves of shooting them!
The business partnership is that the SPCA gets what it calls an adoption center in every store, which is actually free retail space. Petcetera, I presume, gets to look like a good corporate citizen.
I phoned two Petceteras, in Victoria and Nanaimo and sure enough, these are sales, not adoptions though not as blatantly as they used to be. Only SPCA cats are for sale at the 'adoption' centers. Now the SPCA is phoned to 'approve' the 'adoption' and the whole process takes about 45 mins. How's that for ethical rehoming? Any follow-up calls or home checks? I wouldn't bet on it. Real adoptions with home checks and post-adoption support and follow-up calls would slow sales down a lot and a lost sale to the SPCA means more cats back at the 'shelter' that might get sick and 'have' to be 'euthanized', and a sale lost to Petcetera means a loss of all the supplies like food and litter etc that most purchasers of a cat will also purchase.
Here's what this all raises for me....
It's not the same as the U.S. PetSmart shareholders being asked to give up come of its lucrative business because PetSmart is selling puppymill dogs. But in some ways the same issue is raised.
Why does the BC SPCA's Board of Directors permit a business partnership with a seller of live animals, many of them animals that the SPCA says shouldn't be pets in the first place?
Why does the BC SPCA's Board of Directors permit a business partnership with a seller of intact rabbits?
I'd ask the Board of Directors but they don't answer.

http://www.petcetera.ca/page139.htm