On a TV newscast last night, Hugh Coghill, manager of the Surrey SPCA at the time of the impoundment of the primates seized from Kaslo, said that the SPCA has spent $100,000 on "care" for the primates. Viewers were shown a converted garage in Surrey with the macaques in a wire enclosure.

But Coghill told a different story to the director of Mindy's Memory Sanctuary in Oklahoma when the SPCA was considering sending the macaques to the sanctuary, and he objected to ponying up some money to help the sanctuary cope with life-time care. He also hinted that if it was going to be so much trouble to seize primates that the SPCA may just euthanize them next time.

Coghill told the director that the SPCA "had received "very generous donations" as a result of the 'Primate Rescue Fund' " it launched after the seizure.

So, where did the money, that donators believed was for the seized primates, go?