Two years ago, Emergency Social Services Association of BC held meetings in many municipalities to set up volunteer teams in the case of an earthquake or other disaster. Representatives from municipal governments and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) were invited to attend.

The rescue of animals was one of the categories being covered and so AAS rep Carole Gamley attended meetings held in North Vancouver.

No one from the SPCA attended.

This spring, Critteraid of Penticton hosted a seminar on animal rescue in disasters held by the American NGO Noah's Wish Foundation.

The SPCA did not attend.

When disaster struck the SPCA was unprepared except for some little space at its dog and cat recycling depots.

Noah's Wish and its cadre of trained volunteers went in like gangbusters, quietly organizing and rescuing like a well-oiled machine.

The SPCA went in like gang-busters too...in true SPCA style, with a trail of media morons.

The SPCA has grabbed credit for others' work many times in the past, but the WatchDogWeb knows what to do now and the emails and phone calls to the media started as quickly as Noah's Wish work did. Read below what the media is writing now.

When is the SPCA going to figure out that the old tricks won't work anymore - not with a lot of smart women with computers? Or is the SPCA too old a dog and ought to be humanely euthnanized?