Good for the Delta SPCA. This is the kind of true animal welfare that is practiced in so few SPCA branches, in spite of the CEO's constant chatter to the media about all the "miracles in the branches".

Many branches are not providing even minimal health care, and still not pre-sterilizing the animals they sell. Quesnel branch is only one of many that is still doing this.

The restructuring of the BC SPCA in 2001, from autonomous branches to complete control by head office, was forced onto some unwilling branches on the grounds that the distribution of wealth and services was unequal. Some branches, Vancouver and Victoria especially, had millions in the bank while other branches had no paid staff, no shelter, and no money for vets or sterilizing at all. Two and a half years later, and that has not changed, in spite of Vancouver and Victoria's millions being taken.

Where did that money go if not to branches like Quesnel? We know that head office staff more than tripled in that period, and that the SPCA spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on lawyers and consultants and new offices, all for itself, not for animals, as the then CEO promised and as the current CEO keeps telling the media.