My wife use to support the SPCA by collecting money for them through the Dog Walk event, held every September in Stanley Park. It was only after the exposure of high wages paid to the executives that I became suspicious of their actions.

It just didn't make any sense to me that these people were getting all this money to do what? It was only after the media exposed them of their greedy ways that it changed my mind completely about their purpose. This was long before I even had a computer and knew about the internet and therefore the existance of AAS. Even their volunteer dog-walking program was ludicrous.

It appeared to me that they were more interested in money than they were in the dogs' welfare. I was unemployed at the time, around 1993,94 when I had lots of time to do this during the week, except that that was the time the dogs were being viewed for sale and weren't allowed to be walked.

It seems to me that it was therefore more important to have them on display, like a car, ready to collect the cash than it was for them to be exercised. Stupid policy in my opinion.