----- Original Message -----
From: Animal Advocates
To: "Delta, Mayor and Council"
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 6:20 PM
Subject: Thank you for questioning the SPCA: Please ask where the missing $6,000 went

The Mayor and Council,
the Corporation of Delta

Dear Mayor Jackson,

Please extend our profound thanks to Councillor Campbell for speaking so forthrightly about the BC SPCA in the matter of the pup Cheech.

An inquiry into the BC SPCA is long overdue. If only it had been done when it should have, the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent pets may have been spared.

Animal Advocates Society offered to manager Michelle Rodgers and CEO Craig Daniell to foster and rehabilitate Cheech, at our expense. We attach our offer below.

In the following post you will read that the SPCA has not been paying its vet bills and $6,000 that volunteers raised to pay the vets has gone to head office. CEO Daniell told volunteers that he cannot account for its disposition.

We have it on good authority that the vets are considering going to the media with this information. We hope they come to you also.

The AAS messageboard has over one hundred posts on this issue, all them factual and informative. We expose every single last lie the SPCA has told, and there are many, and very serious lies.

We append the links to the posts.

Sincerely,

Judith Stone, President,
Animal Advocates Society of BC
www.animaladvocates.com
604-984-8826

AAS offer to foster Cheech:

AAS official offer to foster Cheech

Posted By: AAS
Date: Thursday, 17 June 2004, at 9:19 a.m.

In Response To: Another sacrificial lamb led to the altar of SPCA power politics: Cheech almost pays the price (AAS)

To BC SPCA President, Mary Lou Troman, ex-President Rick Sargent, and the BC SPCA Board of Directors:
mltroman@ntouchcorp.com ; roxiegirl@shaw.ca , p_mackillop@telus.net ; rennebergv@cnc.bc.ca ; vanessa.lycos@shaw.ca ; zred@telus.net ; carla_maruyama@hermanmiller.com ; tinakcr@hotmail.com ; enlepage@shaw.ca ; g-peterson@shaw.ca ; tigerbowen@yahoo.com ; kared@telus.net ; thebad3@shaw.ca ; kimby_59@yahoo.ca ; phyllisgregg@telus.net, charger@citytel.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Animal Advocates
To: BC SPCA - cdaniell@spca.bc.ca; deltaspca@hotmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 7:17 PM
Subject: Official notice of AAS's offers to foster Cheech made to Craig Daniell and the Delta SPCA manager

June 16, 2003

By email and fax

To Craig Daniell CEO, BC SPCA,
Michelle Rodgers, Manager, Delta SPCA

To whom it may concern:

At approximately 12:30 pm today I phoned the Delta SPCA after hearing the details of the imminent destruction of Cheech, from a long time Delta SPCA volunteer. I left a message for the manager, Michelle Rodgers, to phone me.

At 1:01 Michelle Rodgers phoned me. I offered AAS's help with Cheech's rehabilitation. I offered to foster Cheech for the Delta SPCA. I talked to Michelle at length about my ten years experience with large dogs that had been abused and how I had found that all of them were wary of men, often showing their fear by aggressive behaviour but that I believed because of his young age, his submissive and affectionate behaviour with many volunteers and with men once he got to know them, and that he had not once bitten anyone, that he would be easily rehabilitated, if just given the time. I several times repeated my offer to foster.

At 1:24 I was phoned by SPCA employee Amanda Muir who told me that Cheech was still going to be killed, momentarily. I asked Amanda to quickly reiterate our offer the Rodgers and that I was going to phone Craig Daniell immediately.

At 1:26 I phoned Craig Daniell on his cell phone and explained the offer I had made to Rodgers. I asked him to phone Rodgers immediately and have Cheech's destruction postponed until my offer could be considered and a fresh look at the assessment could be made with the input of many volunteers and staff. I stated clearly to Daniell that I was speaking for the record that AAS would foster Cheech. I may have made this statement 3 or 4 times in this conversation.

At 1:40 Craig Daniell phoned me back to say that Bob Busch, General Manager, Operations, was on his way to the Delta SPCA, but he would not say whether Cheech's life would be spared.

At 2:14 I was phoned by a volunteer who said that because the order to destroy Cheech had not been postponed or rescinded, that Cheech was being removed by some sympathetic SPCA staff.

[re]NOTICE: I HEREBY RESTATE MY OFFER TO FOSTER CHEECH AND TO PAY FOR HIS REHABILITATION.

Judith Stone, President,
Animal Advocates Society of BC
www.animaladvocates.com
604-922-1813