ANIMAL ADVOCATES WATCH DOG WEB - THE SLAUGHTER OF THE SIX INNOCENTS

THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS - SIX DEAD DOGS DO MORE GOOD FOR THE CAUSE OF ANIMAL WELFARE THAN ANY OF US HAVE DONE...

In January of this year (2002) the Vancouver SPCA killed six healthy dogs. It was the final straw for six volunteers who went to the media and told the sad and brutal story of the slaughter of these six innocents.

The SPCA publicly - on television - blamed the dogs for their own deaths - for being "aggressive". They weren't. The volunteers who so bravely broke ranks and spoke out made that clear: They had been walking and grooming these dogs, some for months and they were not aggressive. It was a lie. One of the volunteers said that that the man who said the dogs were killed for being aggressive, John van der Hoeven, the long-time boss of the SPCA's pound contracts and "shelters" should be fired. He is still there.

Publicly shooting themselves in the foot this way was the best thing the SPCA could have done for all future animals at their horrible "shelters" because now it has had to announce it won't kill for aggression anymore. (Although even this is not honest: it has allowed itself to kill for ill-health including "behavioural ill-health, which is the SPCA's new name for aggression. See the proof of this statement, click here)

The callous killing of these six dogs at an SPCA "shelter" (what a corruption of a good, decent word) did more to expose the SPCA's true agenda than anything since the launch of the Animal Advocates' web site. It precipitated the panicky, p.r., damage-control announcement by the SPCA of a "moratorium" on killing. That immediately blew up in its face because, in its haste to counteract the exposure of the killing of the six dogs, it didn't even consult with the people in the branches that had to stop killing but could not stop taking in. See a letter from the Prince George SPCA, click here) Whoever at the SPCA made the decision to announce the moratorium obviously can't even organize a rock fight and should be fired too, but he is still there.

In memory of the Six Innocents, of all creatures in BC, abandoned and neglected by the SPCA for fifty years, be a Watch Dog for the animals of BC. Keep an eye on the AAS web site and send it to all animal lovers. The web never sleeps. It never closes its million eyes. The SPCA is never going to be able to get away with this again - as long as the web is watching.

AAS web pages of interest:
The reports: No. 1 http://www.animaladvocates.com/raise-the-bar-1.htm
No. 2 http://www.animaladvocates.com/raise-the-bar-2.htm
No. 3 http://www.animaladvocates.com/raise-the-bar-3.htm