At the Vernon SPCA meeting Michael Steven (AAS: the then president of the BC SPCA Board of Directors), said that the Society was dysfunctional. I believe that was in 2001. He was with Douglas Brimacombe and someone else from the Board and they were telling all the branches that taking away the local boards was going to be good for them because they would get a lot of money that would be taken away from the very wealthy branches in Vancouver and Victoria. I think he must have believed that Brimacombe and amalgamation of the branches under the control of him and his board was a good thing. But the BC SPCA got more dysfunctional under Brimacombe, a lot more! Brimacombe announced a moratorium on killing for space and the branches who had to cope with the next day's line-ups of people dumping their dogs and cats, found out about the moratorium by reading about it in the papers! And all the money and more got spent by head office until the SPCA was running $4 million deficits, and now branches are being told to raise more money or they will be chopped.

Talk about dysfunctional! Now it is spending hundreds of thousands to muzzle the problem instead of fix the problem. The problem in my opinion is that the SPCA can't dispose of society's pets and get away with it. Simple.