AAS received this email:
The Best Friend Forgotten Tour is coming to your town!!
Best Friend Forgotten is a documentary exploring the problem of pet overpopulation in America, hosted by David Duchovny from TV’s X-Files. Give Voice to Animals is organizing a 22-city red-carpet, Hollywood-style premiere tour in the U.S. and Canada to get the word out on this epidemic and to serve as a fundraiser for local area animal shelters. We will be in Vancouver on November 13th at The Queen Elizabeth Theatre. We are looking for volunteers that can help us with promoting the event in your city and help us on the night of the premiere. If you are interested, visit our website and signup on the volunteer page or send an email.
Matt Erickson
Volunteer Coordinator
Give Voice to Animals
Our reply was this:
Dear Mr Erikson,
Animal Advocates Society does not have a shelter so we would not qualify for donations from this event, even if we were interested in participating, which we are not. We rescue the most abused dogs - chained dogs - but we rehabilitate them in family foster homes, not grim concrete cells as do the "big-business shelters", where many dogs that are not sellable, or would take too much money to rehabilitate, are routinely killed. Nor could we supply volunteers to help raise funds for these organizations that routinely dispose of unsellable dogs and cats by killing them.
If we thought that the organizers of your event made sure that no money went to any organization that kills untold numbers of unsellable product delivered free to its so-called "shelters" every year, we would be happy to offer our volunteers.
Can you tell us if in fact your organization screens out any organization that accepts all surrendered animals and then kills the unsellable ones?
Judy Stone,
Animal Advocates Society of BC
AAS comment: I think that this organization is sincere, but clueless. We don't fault it for its naiveté - almost no one understands that "sheltering" is the absolutely necessary other half of the evil of pet dumping that they abhor.
But the SPCA is far from clueless. In fact its newest p.r. extravaganza, where it encourages impulse buying and advertises dogs like life style accessories, is more than ever "Pushing Pet Product Inc". Of course the SPCA has signed up....this is right up its alley.
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See articles on the SPCA's latest self-serving ad campaign...
SPCA Adoption Ads a Hit: http://www.animaladvocates.com/cgi-bin/newsroom.pl/read/3294
and the other posts in the thread:
I am not amused. http://www.animaladvocates.com/cgi-bin/newsroom.pl/read/3302
Moving product! http://www.animaladvocates.com/cgi-bin/newsroom.pl/read/3305
Once again I am dismayed at the BC SPCA’s lack of concern
http://www.animaladvocates.com/cgi-bin/newsroom.pl/read/3338