AAS just got this good news.

Don Brown, manager of by-laws for the Capital Regional District (CRD) in Victoria will be sending a letter to the Victoria SPCA letting them know that as of the date the CRD takes on new dog control contracts it will no longer be accepting owner surrendered pets.

It is believed the deal that was under discussion, for the SPCA to pick the cream of the crop and leave the rest to the CRD pound to kill, did not sit well with Brown. Owner surrenders make up approx 40-50% of CRD pound animals so by getting rid of this part it will have far less trouble looking after its only responsibility which is to control stray dogs.

We were told that the SPCA expected the CRD pay it $85 per dog and $35 per cat it took from the CRD.

The market is correcting itself. With animal-lovers using the power of the internet to watch, it is no longer possible to kill in large numbers, which is what unlimited surrender requires and those agencies that can, are getting out of mass disposal of society's unwanted pets.

Soon, there will be no hole to hide in and pet disposers will have a hard time making any money at this anymore.

What to do SPCA? Sell more pets, faster? There is a limit to the market for used pets. Or start to break the cycle of dependency on easy pet disposal by saying "Do it yourself" to pet dumpers when you are full? And start to really do the things you claim to be doing to reduce the pet overpopulation problem, like blanket spay neuter programs, and breeding controls, and education, all things AAS does not believe you are using nearly as effectively as you say.