January 29, 2004: Posting title: The whole 'our hands are tied' is not going to work anymore! In response to: SPCA ignores huge puppy mill operation in BC - angry citizen forced to seek help of tax auditor to shut mill down http://www.animaladvocates.com/cgi-bin/admin.pl/read/4451

"I'm sure this isn't the only one. It is a VERY sad day in BC when a citizen has to shut down a puppy mill by way of tax auditing and the SPCA is pretty much spending their time putting out PR fires. The truth is beginning to get out. The SPCA is dishonest. The whole 'our hands are tied' is not going to work anymore."

AAS comment: AAS and hundreds of other people and a lot of lawyers can attest to SPCA dishonesty in the matter of what it could do under the provisions of the PCA Act. The proof that the SPCA was not telling the truth when it told thousands of people for years that it could do nothing about the grossest cruelty and neglect by some puppymillers, is that the same Act, unchanged, is being used to shut down puppymills now, at last, after AAS investigated some and posted them on our web site with the provable information that the puppymills had been reported to the SPCA, sometimes for decades. AAS investigated one kittenmill that was owned by an SPCA employee for god's sake!

Lori has volunteered at an SPCA and has posted complaints many times that the SPCA still sells sexually intact animals, lets it employees breed and sell, and especially that the SPCA has done nothing about backyard breeding. At the time she wrote this, all were true. The SPCA is now beginning to seize from a few backyard breeders, but it still sells intact animals that can be used as breeding stock and it still lets some employees breed and sell dogs and cats when the SPCA is still killing dogs and cats for being "excess".

And this one: June 26, 2004: Posting title: Stealing is disgusting enough, but stealing from animals? In Response to: CTV News at 6: June 24/04: SPCA's "assessments" exposed for what they are - frauds http://www.animaladvocates.com/cgi-bin/admin.pl/read/5811

"The SPCA's flawed system was an accident waiting to happen...how many other dogs have died because someone was having a bad day and decided on some flawed assessment to sentence a dog to death? I think most people agree that the dog that attacked Amanda Muir was a dog that needed to be put down, but these cases are very rare and obviously Cheech was a dog that could have been rehabilitated as he was a friendly pup. The Delta SPCA was the one SPCA known for having a friendly, caring staff so it no big surprise that they are the ones who saved a dog's life. And now the SPCA suspends them... I have no respect for Nadine Gourkow and am incredibly impressed that CTV is exposing the SPCA for who they are...people who lie and who are totally inconsistent. If the SPCA took a hard look at themselves they would see that they are an accident waiting to happen. They need a huge, huge overhaul of management. And what about those funds that went missing? It just disgusts me...stealing is disgusting enough, but stealing from animals? I don't know how these people can look at themselves in the mirror... "

AAS comment: Lori was referring to the thousands of dollars raised by Amanda Muir (Delta SPCA employee who helped to rescue Cheech from the SPCA). Amanda went on TV and in the papers and trusting Delta animal lovers gave thousands for surgery for horrendous injuries for specific dogs. Amanda formed a trust relationship with local vets but the vets were not paid and the SPCA admitted that the money went downtown. That is not what the donators were told their money was for.