The SPCA protects the public by killing dogs for City Hall. It does this wherever it has a contract. In Surrey, where the SPCA has the contract, the SPCA applied to the courts for orders to kill several dogs. It took an animal-lover hiring a lawyer to stop it. How many of these contracts the SPCA has in BC it has always refused to tell AAS. AAS is being sued in part for harming the SPCA’s reputation, yet these dog control/disposal contacts make many animal-lovers very angry at it and causes it a loss of donations,as the SPCA has known for many years, because the SPCA's own 2001 Community Consultation report made that clear. We believe that the SPCA does more self-inflicted harm than AAS can ever do it.

Read how the SPCA in Surrey applies to the courts to kill dogs: http://www.animaladvocates.com/top-stories/harrispitbulls/

The BC SPCA is the paid dog-control agency for Burnaby and consequently it protects the citizens of Burnaby from dogs. That is not its mandate of course. Its mandate is to protect animals from people, not to protect people from animals.

Dog-rehabilitator Valley Calderoni of “Take the Lead”, volunteered for a year in 2006 -2007 at the Burnaby SPCA, rehabilitating dogs that might be killed for being possible public liabilities. Valley told AAS that after an SPCA dog bit a jogger while being walked by a volunteer, and the jogger made a complaint to Burnaby City Hall, that the City told the SPCA not to let that happen again. The SPCA has a contract with the City to protect humans from dogs, and so it protects its contract, by killing dogs.

How many other contracts to do this does the BC SPCA have? Its website doesn't say. AAS has asked a number of times and has never got an answer.

The full report: http://www.animaladvocates.com/spca/community-consultation-report.pdf
The section on animal control contracts: http://www.animaladvocates.com/spca/ccreport-animal-control.pdf