"This remarkable goal is being accomplished through the work of increasingly progressive humane groups and shelters, where good people are working to save lives, not destroy them. Any organization that's aspiring to a leadership role in relation to companion animals needs to be encouraging people to save more lives, rather than to go on repeating the failed policies and practices that helped create the problem in the first place."

While the BC SPCA expanded its huge pound contracting business, the real animal welfare network was expanding even faster. Literally thousands of people formed groups or worked on their own. Many had started by volunteering at an SPCA, thinking they would be helping animals, and had given up in anger and disgust when they simply became part of the machinery of the animal disposal industry and their efforts to bring a bit of real welfare to the SPCA's animals were stonewalled and derided.

It is these thousand of people, almost all of them women, who do real rehoming, real rescue, and real animal welfare, spending whatever is needed on every animal in their care, while the SPCA takes the credit and most of the money and yet still will spend nothing but the cost of killing the animals as it did in May in Kamloops when it killed 90 cats that it had made sick.

These alternative groups have been harassed, raided, derided, and sued by the SPCA, and still they grow and flourish and take more and more money away from the SPCA as the animal-loving public gets wiser.

This needn't have happened and wouldn't have happened if the SPCA were led by the right people. But it is led by the people who chose to kill 90 cats in Kamloops.