Those who have accepted responsibility for a dog(s), no matter what their area of involvement, must provide: 1) comfort, shelter and security, 2)readily accessible fresh water and a diet capable of maintaining the dog(s) in full health and vigour, 3) freedom of movement, 4) the company of other animals, which includes the human who is often the only contact that the dog(s) might have with other living creatures, 5) the opportunity to exercise most, if not all, of their normal patterns of behaviour, 6) an environment and housing that neither harms the animal nor causes any undue strain, 7) the ability to recognize and prevent abnormal behavioral patterns, injury, and parasitic infections and disease, including rapid diagnosis and treatment when indicated, and 8) appropriate health care.

The BC SPCA provides facilities that shelter in the physical sense, and it may provide readily accessible fresh water (or it may not always), but it does not often provide any of the other points, and for many, it provides none of the other points.

AAS has documented this many times. SPCA branches are notorious for being pestilence-filled and psychologically sickening. Animals routinely die of untreated illness, or are killed for being sick from a disease they contracted from the SPCA. Animals are kept in tiny cages for days, weeks, and months. Cats with pus oozing from ears and eyes crouch in feces and urine-filled litter boxes. Dogs are made insane from solitary confinement. Sick animals are sold. Animals are allowed to slowly die of injuries, alone in their cold cells.

This board has hundreds of pieces of documented evidence of all our allegations.