One day a list must be made of all the dogs in just one month that the SPCA has refused to help... just the ones that AAS knows about, not all the thousands of ones we are never told about. Snowball was reported to the SPCA who told the concerned person that the SPCA can't go on Reserves. Not true of course, but it has worked well to put people off for all of the fifteen years that AAS has been told the SPCA says this.

Snowball's owners would have been glad of help from the SPCA, but they got none. Instead it was the little groups that have been quietly doing real animal welfare for generations who came to their and Snowball's help. For fifty years, while the SPCA ran pounds and killed dogs like Snowball (in fact if Snowball ended up at an SPCA it could still justify killing him under the rubric of "unadoptable" - a definition that makes the dog at fault for it's own death), these little groups were holding bake sales to pay the bills for dogs like Snowball and for hundreds of thousands of needy cats.

Snowball is a gentle, cheerful sweetheart who is well-loved and who spends most of his time inside with his family these days. While AAS is taking care of his legs, bitten by another dog, we are going to get him neutered too.