BC is covered with women feral cat rescuers who all practice Trap/Neuter/Release, while others keep feral cats until they are tamed, as does Forgotten Felines in Surrey. They do this at their own expense and with the few dollars in donations that don't go to the BC SPCA. They do this because of the decades of the BC SPCA killing every last feral cat brought to it.

The SPCA calls this humane animal welfare, but of course, killing can't ever be properly called welfare. It is the "they're better off dead than fending for themselves" justification which is believed by som many people who haven't a clue how flase that is. It is not remotely true, not of a well-managed feral cat colony. Killing feral cats is simply pest control, the paid control of pest cats.

If the SPCA were dedicated to animal welfare, instead of to the control of pest animals such as unwanted dog, cats, rabbits, hamsters, etc, it would have its own feral cat program. A program would only take one or two paid employees for the whole province and a lot of volunteers, and there are no more keen volunteers than those who want to cat-trap in my experience.

Or alternatively, it could offer some financial support for independent trapping groups as in the San Francisco model as Pacific Animal Foundation has pointed out to it for years.

At the very least it ought to support grant applications to municipalities that are made by any reputable cat-trapping group. These dedicated and struggling groups ought be able to include a recommendation for the grant from the SPCA. If the SPCA did really "work with other animal groups" as it constantly says it does, it would be glad to support a grant application for humane work that it does not, or will not, do.

But since the SPCA is in the animal control contracting business, which includes getting rid of feral cats that are often complained of to City Halls, it may not want to let any contract money go to groups that could be viewed as competition for animal control work