The SPCA has a program called the Violence Link Project that implies it will compassionately board pets for women trying to escape violence. Some of the BCSPCA's branches will foster for women going in to Transition Houses, some will not. Some of the branches will make the woman surrender her animals, others will not. The BCSPCA has three flashy brochures about how it assists women trying to escape violence by fostering their pets when they are in Transition Houses, but very little on the ground help that is real, and has never answered my questions about their lack of consistency.

How can they even consider boarding for profit, until they have a viable policy available for crisis fostering?