In 1994, tiny AAS began paying a lot of money for ads urging people to stop keeping their dogs outside. http://www.animaladvocates.com/Adverts.htm

The multi-million dollar SPCA remained silent. Though professing to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves in hundreds of ads a year, it did not once run an ad about yard dogs.

AAS worked hard for two years to get bylaws that would mitigate the suffering of yard dogs in eleven municipalities. The SPCA was paid by the municipalities to enforce the bylaws, and never did, not once. In fact, the SPCA tried to prevent the adoption of the bylaws.

The SPCA sold thousands of dogs to abusers, some of them known abusers. And when neighbours would beg the SPCA to take back the dog it had sold, and was now on a chain, the SPCA wouldn't, even though its own sales agreement permitted it to.

The SPCA is still selling yard dogs, as you can read below.

So which is this P.R. item in the Quesnel Observer? SPCA policy or SPCA P.R.?

BC SPCA continues to approve of "outside dogs" - even as young as four week old pups

Posted By: Jennifer Dickson
Date: Tuesday, 16 August 2005, at 10:49 p.m.

I very likely have called the BC SPCA a "second hand pet retail outlet" on this messageboard more than once. I think it might be one of the things I'm being sued for, but I'm not sure. Anyway, here I go calling it that again. The BC SPCA is still approving of outdoor dogs. It would seem that only the length of a dog's coat is important, not its emotional needs, as the North Peace SPCA has stated several times on its website that certain dogs wouldn't make good outdoor dogs, as their hair is too short. (Except for one, that can be an outdoor dog, except in the winter months.) Age and socialization windows appear not to be a factor though, as the North Peace SPCA has fostered a litter of puppies out to someone who made them outdoor dogs at four weeks old.

As long as it approves of the isolation and subsequent emotional damage and desocialization of one of the most social species on earth, our "best friend" the dog, I will continue to call the BCSPCA a second hand pet retail outlet.

I will subpost the examples of which I write, to substantiate my public accusation, and I will print them off and add them to my list of documents for disclosure in the BC SPCA's defamation lawsuit against myself and other AAS supporters, and I will have them ready at the upcoming dates for mediation, though frankly, while I can still find examples like this on an SPCA website, I wonder what there is to mediate

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Hailo - it's okay to live indoors if your hair is short... *LINK* *PIC*
Nola - only needs to be indoors in the winter... *LINK* *PIC*
Daffy - does well in the yard when the family is gone... *LINK* *PIC*
Hollywood and her siblings - put outside by an SPCA approved foster home at four weeks old *LINK* *PIC*
And finally, poor Roscoe, on a huge heavy chain, at the SPCA *LINK* *PIC*
To banish them from their family is an act of cruelty
Colin MacKay