In the Victoria Branch Winter Newsletter CEO Craig Daniell is quoted as saying, "As most of you are probably aware, we have been forced by escalating costs to make significant staff reductions to meet the challenge of living within the income available to us....the challenge has been to make these cuts without impacting front-line animal care. What we accomplish everyday in every corner of this province is something we can be genuinely proud of."
http://www.spca.bc.ca/victoria/VictoriaSPCAnewsletterWinter2004.pdf

And from the Prince George Citizen....
"Prince George SPCA staff were forced to put down nearly two dozen cats Wednesday after a virus swept through the communal room at the shelter -- just 10 days before an isolation room meant to prevent such outbreaks is scheduled to be opened. Staff arrived at work in the morning to find one cat had already died and another six were vomiting. Shelter manager Jeannine Woodhouse and another staff member spent the rest of the day putting down the 22 remaining cats that were in the room."

The communal room, I understand, is the room where adoptable cats are presented to the public. These cats that were killed would therefore have been available for adoption just the day before and the days before that.

Personally, I see front-line care severely impacted here and I cannot see how any Society could be proud of the carnage described in the above article.