It is disturbing to read that the SPCA killed a poor chained dog it seized after the SPCA deemed it vicious. It may or may not have been vicious - there is no way to know as the SPCA has proven too many times that its assessment test is highly unreliable, biased against dogs, and is often applied by people who are afraid of dogs. The BC SPCA gets millions of dollars a year to control dogs rather than help dogs. Control of dogs is the duty of the dog-catcher and pounds, not of a Society that makes even more millions by claiming its mandate is animal welfare. No real animal welfarist would kill the victim.

Killing is no longer a believable or acceptable method of "cruelty prevention" as was most recently shown by cruelty charges laid against PETA employees in the U.S. whose twisted logic led them to kill dogs so that they would not "suffer" in a pound. That is precisely the twisted logic the SPCA has successfully used for over 50 years to "explain" why it kills so many animals.

We will be urging the City of Burnaby to insist that the beneficiaries of its compassion are not summarily killed by the Society the City pays to be its dog-catcher. It is a sad but instructive irony that many people are reluctant to report a suffering dog to the SPCA because they fear the SPCA will kill it. That must end. The SPCA must be made to stop killing the victims it "heroically" seizes and gets so much good P.R. and donations for. AAS began pointing out that the SPCA secretly killed the victims in our 2002 report, "Seize and Kill or Rescue and Save?" at http://www.animaladvocates.com/top-stories/beaverdell-topaz.htm. The SPCA went on to seize, publicize, then kill, countless more victims of its "heroism" and "compassion".

When the SPCA spends money on rehabilitation of the animals it seizes, then it will be safe to report a suffering animal to the SPCA. Until then, it is a betrayal of the animal.