The whole moratorium was bizarre from start to finish (except that it's not finished yet). So dishonest it just about takes your breath away. So panicky that it makes you wonder if the inmates have taken over the looney bin at the BC SPCA. The first announcement, "no killing for space" blew up in its face so fast it must have made their hair curl. There was an unprecedented threatened mutiny in the ranks from the branches. This has NEVER happened at the SPCA before. It was in really big trouble. The panicky second announcement is just as phony. It says that no animal can be killed except for health reasons and then says that behaviour is now also to be called health. So, anything at all is still a reason to kill, just as before.

The real reason to kill is still for space, because if the SPCA had plenty of space it would be able to give every animal the care it needed to make it adoptable and wouldn't have to kill any animal but the terminally ill or injured. Nothing has changed but the labelling.

Why doesn't the SPCA have plenty of space? For two reasons:

(1) pound contracts means it is legally bound to take all stray and dangerous dogs;
(2) an open surrender policy that means that the SPCA must kill to make room for the flood of animals being dumped by irresponsible pet owners.

The AAS web site explains how being "open" and having pound contracts has worked financially for fifty years for the SPCA on many pages. Go to the link below to follow the trail.

As for the SPCA's new "dog behaviour assessments" that permits them to kill any dog for "behavioural ill-health"? More to come on that soon....