The rotten fruits of pound contracting and unlimited surrender...

Perhaps the Dawson Creek SPCA would have the time to enforce the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act if it weren't using its resources to be the dog catcher under contracts with the City of Dawson Creek and Pouce Coupe, and perhaps other places. It often off-loads the expense of carrying-out of its mandate to protect animals onto the RCMP, in favour of revenue-generating dog disposal contracts which earn it millions of dollars a year.

Dog disposal is a clear conflict of the SPCA's first and foremost mandate to prevent cruelty, but dog disposal pays and enforcement costs.

SPCA staff are also kept busy with its biggest revenue generator: unlimited surrender. Full shelters attract donations, but they also mean that staff have no time to go look at starving horses. And both BC SPCA policies - pound contracting and unlimited surrender - mean that the SPCA is BC's premier pet disposer because any animal that can't be sold has to be killed.

We can dispute the claim of the BC SPCA's spin mistress, Lori Chortyk, that "it's unlikely that repeated calls of neglect would go unanswered". Animal Advocates hears almost daily of calls to the SPCA that go unattended or are treated with uncaring dispatch, what we call SPCA drive-bys.