Question 1: Why didn't the BC SPCA tell the Prince Rupert SPCA last year not to boil crabs in the future?

Question 2: Why hasn't the BC SPCA Board of Directors ever adopted a policy of not using some cooked species of animals to raise money?

Question 3: Will the SPCA tell the many branches that are holding the annual Paws of a Cause fundraisers in September not to serve meat in the future, starting this year?

Question 4: The SPCA has also justified roasting dogs and chopping up live turtles as "culturally acceptable". The SPCA keeps repeating that it is an animal welfare agency. How can any real animal welfare agency make such a statement?

Question 5: When first told that some people were objecting to the crab feast, Ms Chortyk justified it by saying that her authorities assured her that crabs feel no pain. Why would the BC SPCA not know that that has not been scientifically established?

Question 6: Has Ms Chortyk or any of the Management or Members of the Board of Directors of the BC SPCA ever watched crabs being boiled and seen how frantic they are to escape the heat?

Question 7: If any of them have, why would that not be enough to make them stop allowing crabs to be boiled alive?

Question 8: Why would it take the threat of world-wide condemnation and the threat of a loss of money for the SPCA to stop boiling crabs alive?

Question 9: Why has the SPCA only stopped doing things to animals that shock and horrify real animal welfarists (historically and even now), if the level of harm to its reputation (which translates into financial harm) reaches a significant point?

Question 10: Why is the BC SPCA still in the dog-catching/disposal business? If it were the best dog-catcher in BC, that could be some small justification. But in fact, where the SPCA has been replaced as the poundkeeper (Langley, North Vancouver District, Coquitlam, Delta, etc) the level of animal welfare has improved at those pounds. We say "could" be justification, but in fact, because of the requirement for pounds to seize and destroy dogs deemed dangerous, no real animal welfare agency ought to take money to do this. This ought only to be the duty of municipalities.

Question 11: Why is the SPCA still intaking more animals than it can rehabilitate and rehome, knowing that it is going to kill a percentage of them? This is especially true of cats which inevitably sicken in confined catteries such as the SPCA's.

Question 12: Why does the biggest animal organization in North America (the BC SPCA's claim) lag decades behind in real animal welfare policies?

Question 13: The BC SPCA not only does not lead animal welfare, it does not even follow. Other animal welfare organizations long ago set the example by adopting policies of cruelty-free fundraising. The BC SPCA has gone on selling cooked animals - the products of cruel factory farming - at its fundraisers. The SPCA historically has only budged if it is in its best interests - not because of the best interests of animals or of furthering a culture of compassion. Selling cooked animals supports, entrenches, and legitimizes a culture of thoughtless cruelty. Why is the BC SPCA still setting an example of thoughtless cruelty in the year 2006?

Question 14: What needs to change at the BC SPCA before it ruins its reputation irrevocably?