This story is enough to make anyone with knowledge of the big players in the dog disposal business retch. Nevertheless, it is gratifying too because it shows how Animal Advocates Society forced the big players - and Brian Nelson is the second biggest, the first being the BC SPCA - to do business in a different way. We don't believe that Nelson or the SPCA are any more animal-welfarists than they ever were, but this change is only the beginning. One day in BC there will be real animal welfare - the right things being done for the right reasons, not for business reasons.

The big animal-welfare and control businesses can no longer operate in secrecy. The internet is watching out for animals. Animal-lovers are in touch, exchanging information, keeping track, and speaking out. Soon, not one cat, dog, rabbit or rat will be killed by the SPCA or any other animal control contractor without everyone knowing. We think the SPCA touched bottom in the days of Brian Nelson and others, and there is only one way to go from now on and that is up. Not thanks to the SPCA, but because AAS put animals before itself, braved the SPCA's massive law firms and deep pockets (full of donator's money) and forced the SPCA and pound contractors like Brian Nelson to do business in a different way.