I would like to know what "public education and other programs" have been cut. I am not aware of these!!!! When the SPCA itself sells intact animals---where is the education re spay and neutering??? How much investigation is done before an animal is adopted? How many animals return to the SPCA because the person decided they did not want the animal -- "shuffling" is not the way to improve the animals' lives -- and should not be confused with "adoption" which is for life!!!

Why would the SPCA not have statistics on how many animals are euthanized??? I would think that all of this information would need to be kept from the beginning of time -- where an animal came from, what condition it was in, who adopted it, when it was euthanized and for what reason etc!! Now the SPCA is going to gather statistics for the Vancouver Sun --- how will this be done if the information has not been kept and if it has been kept -- why would they have to compile it now????

The mind-set that animals are better off dead than living where they came from or in cages (this would be in the SPCA) is a horrid reason for euthanizing animals that are adoptable!!! If more time and effort was spent in teaching people how to care for animals, spaying and neutering, closing puppy mills, refusing to allow "dumping" of animals on the SPCA etc ---there would not be the need for this end!!!

Yard dogs are still a very real problem in BC and I have not seen any action taken to improve the lives of these dogs or the education of the owners!!

I could add more, but enough said and I am sure that others will reply to this "information"