For five long, frustrating years, Animal Advocates has struggled to help the BC SPCA do honest animal welfare. Our struggle is on the messageboard and on the web site for all to read. Our evidence of all the SPCA's anti-animal, self-serving actions and policies are there also. The SPCA has entrapped itself in a lose/lose last ditch attempt to hold onto its old ways of doing business by attempting to use enough "animals' money" to silence us through the courts. It is pitiful. But not as pitiful as the animals that the SPCA is abusing for its own ends.

AAS has said many times that it would support an SPCA that did real animal welfare. In fact, we would be the SPCA's biggest boosters if it only did that, because that has always been our only goal: to be able to go on with our lives, assured that the BC SPCA is acting in the best interests of animals at all times.

During the five-year struggle, the SPCA has grudgingly, made some improvements. We know of no instance where the SPCA made the improvements until they were forced to after years of increasing bad publicity. But at last, it stopped its own employees from breeding and selling animals on the side while killing them at work. And the SPCA is slowly working its way toward the end of selling unsterilized animals that can and often were, used to breed more animals.

The SPCA no longer automatically kills every animal that is ill or injured. It still kills a lot of them, as it did in May in Kamloops when it killed 90 cats because some of them were sick. But no longer all of them.

If the SPCA were to become ethical and honest, AAS would become its biggest booster. In fact, we would pledge 5% of our annual donations to the SPCA for as long as we exist. Which wouldn't have to be long if the SPCA were doing real animal welfare.