Are the Delta SPCA's dog adoption protocols in defiance of Head Office or are they a glimpse of new BC SPCA adoption policy? Or are they just the BC SPCA doing a better job of selling - just changing the way it does its dog disposal business?
The old way of doing business, that worked so well for so long, is doomed by AAS's five year investigation and campaign that exposed the SPCA's ruthless and profitable pet disposal business and its decades of ignoring cruelty. There are thousands of readers of the AAS web site any many of them have stopped donating to the SPCA. Is this about recovering lost market? Is this about re-imaging, like the SPCA's new uniforms and logo, or is it an indication of BC SPCA policy change? Turning away customers, paediatric sterilization, keeping dogs instead of selling them as quickly as possible to anyone with the money, time-consuming screening, home checks, follow up home checks and phone calls, taking back any dog that is not working out, all these cost money in wages. Is the SPCA going to spend money on animals for a change or just on its image, as always?
We're hopeful, as we are every time we learn that any SPCA acts in an animal-serving way, not a self-serving way, that the BC SPCA is not just doing business in a new way, but is truly thinking and feeling in a new way.
What the Delta SPCA is doing are real dog adoptions - not dog selling, if real follow-through procedures are done.
But we cannot reconcile the Delta SPCA's standards with the BC SPCA Head Office policy of selling as many dogs as quickly as possible that was exposed by the SPCA's own "shovel them off the back of a truck" recent ad campaign. The BC SPCA's conflicting actions and statements makes it appear to be in a state of chaos. It gives the appearance of only reacting to loss of credibility and income.
The BC SPCA needs a Board of Directors that understand the underlying ethics of animal welfare. Five decades of dishonesty has not ended, not when the SPCA can run ads like the ones in its recent ad campaign. If only the Directors understood that pet shuffling is immoral, dog selling is immoral, unlimited surrender is immoral, and ignoring cruelty is immoral, then the SPCA would find it easy to recover its lost market. Honesty really is the best policy, but honesty takes time and an inherent belief in honesty over phoney p.r. and immoral ad campaigns.
You can read more articles by many thoughtful writers on the subject of the SPCA's DOG SELLATHON and how AAS is forcing the BC SPCA to do real animal welfare at:
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The new way of doing dog disposal business in Abbotsford http://www.animaladvocates.com/cgi-bin/newsroom.pl/read/3390
SPCA contest to see which branch can "move" the most animals is despicable http://www.animaladvocates.com/cgi-bin/newsroom.pl/read/3223
BC SPCA: "We do not euthanize animals for lack of space". The Vernon SPCA proves that a lie http://www.animaladvocates.com/cgi-bin/newsroom.pl/read/3273