January 2005, six months after serving the writ, the SPCA said it wants to mediate. We offered to hold a private meeting with the defendants and lawyers to try to reduce the prohibitive expense of court-ordered, professional mediation. The SPCA refused. Remember this - animal lovers who donate to the SPCA. The SPCA is using your money to force AAS to spend $10,000 for court-ordered mediation with a pricy professional mediator and lots of lawyers. They must be spending the same. They simply do not give a damn how much of animals' money they spend to get revenge on AAS. The fact that they are attacking people who have never written one word about them is all the proof anyone should need that the SPCA is run by bullies.