The SPCA sold a dog with severe separation anxiety who had been shuffled from one SPCA to another, to a family who dealt with her anxiety by crating her for hours at a time. After making her even more crazy they returned her to the SPCA that they had bought her from and were told that the dog would be killed.

AAS found out, and quickly sent someone in to buy her in the nick of time. We got her into a dog friendly foster home where she quickly got over her anxiety and then to a home where she is seldom alone. We see her at the beach, romping and playing, and her new family say she has barely any separation anxiety.

The SPCA solution? Kill the dog or isolate it more. That is the true SPCA that can be seen through its promotional lies - like this one below. Will the BC SPCA's Gourkow and Ledger tell their credulous audience that the SPCA's way to match and manage "adoptions" is to suggest that a dog can be isolated in a yard? Most yard dogs are chained and that too is okay in practice with the SPCA, no matter what lies it tells to the contrary.

Managing the Expectation Gap to Increase Successful Dog Adoptions
Rebecca Ledger & Nadine Gourkow
A longitudinal study of adopted shelter dogs in the UK has indicated that the more an adopted dog differs from the owner's expectation, the more likely it is to be returned to the shelter. This `Expectation Gap' can be minimised by a) ensuring that shelter dogs are trained appropriately to meet the expectations of their new guardians, b) matching assessed dogs with assessed owners, and c) ensuring that owners are provided with continued support in order to address behaviour problems as they arise. Rebecca Ledger will describe how matching temperament-tested dogs with expectation-tested owners has improved the number of successful adoptions from RSPCA shelters in the UK. Nadine Gourkow will then describe how this approach to re-homing is being implemented, validated and managed at BC SPCA rescue shelters in Canada."

Twyla