Olive Sellens has been in cat spay/neither and rescue for 42 and for 26 years she has been the glue that holds this old and highly regarded cat rescue society together.

Olive phoned Bev just two week ago to ask her if she could go look into a situation at a car lot with a cat and two kittens that had been reported to Aid to Animals. Bev went right away and that night trapped the mother cat and one of the kittens, but in the dark and rain the second kitten escaped. Bev was back early the next morning and got that kitten too. "That's what she was like, a good friend and a good worker", said Olive.

"The SPCA will make all the mileage it can out of this, but it is the small groups that have made an improvement in the numbers of feral cats and litters of kittens, not the SPCA."

For most of Olive's twenty-six years with Aid to Animals, it has spent $185,000 a year on spay/neuter and veterinary care. The money was raised by women who worked endlessly to hold sales: bake sales, rummage sales, book sales and raffles, two a month year after year. Meanwhile the SPCA was killing all sick cats, charging poor people for shots and sterilizing, refusing to give rescuers a break on the price, and paying one CEO $204,000 a year and the employees who carried out the killing as much as $30 an hour. That is to say nothing of the free vehicles and the gold card travel.

"Ruth told me, Olive you would be shocked if you saw my paycheque." Ruth was the manager of the SPCA's clinic in Vancouver where Aid to Animals paid many thousands of dollars to help animals the SPCA would not help.

"I confronted Michael Weeks (one Manager of the Vancouver SPCA) once and asked him if the SPCA aborted pregnant cats or let their kittens be born. He answered that it was immoral to abort them. So I asked him if it was immoral to kill so many adult cats and he got all red in the face and wouldn't answer. They were selling kittens and killing the mother cats."

AAS can confirm that. AAS was asked more than once to take a cat from an SPCA foster home because after the kittens had been sold the SPCA told the foster person that the mother cat would be killed as there was no room for her.