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1.
John van der Hoeven, BC SPCA Head Office, Director of Field Operations, (Dog control
contracting boss for the whole province) on Early Edition, CBC Radio One, August 19/00
"There have been no dogs killed, zero euthanasia rate, at
the North Vancouver SPCA since 1993"
AAS: even the superintendent of the
Vancouver SPCA in North Vancouver, Jeff Lawson, admitted to killing five dogs in 1998, but
the figures the SPCA submitted to the city and district of North Vancouver for 1998, show
102 dogs killed.
2. North Vancouver SPCA, 1992, Jeff Lawson, superintendent
of the Vancouver SPCA in North Vancouver to Judy Stone, at that time the president
of the roofing company which was re-roofing the SPCA for the City and the District of North
Vancouver:
"All these women rescuing cats are
wasting their time. The solution to the cat overpopulation problem is mass euthanasia
– that’s what worked for dogs."
3. Vernon SPCA, 1999, Tom Bishop, manager, Vernon SPCA,
when told it might cost $100 to save a dog, said to Jennifer Dickson, a
vet tech at the clinic which the Vernon SPCA uses,
"Why should I pay a hundred bucks to fix
this dog up when I can have him euthanized for $5.00?"
Jennifer Dickson has been sued by the BC
SPCA. (Added April 3/09)
4. Brian Nelson, Director of Field Operations, Vancouver Regional SPCA; former
private pound contractor:
"A good dog will never bite."
After he had ordered the killing of a tiny old poodle who had nipped out of fear. (See
Dudley: An old man's and an old dog's trust betrayed.)
"More coming in than going out."
To justify the mass killing of animals by the SPCA.
"Raccoons are vermin."
To
justify the killing of raccoons for cash for pest control companies. Not
only that, but the SPCA admitted to drowning raccoons in their cages by
holding them underwater in bathtubs.
"The SPCA kills more humanely than
pounds do."
The SPCA is the pound in 18 lower mainland
municipalities, and Nelson himself was a private pound contractor for seven years. He
owned Mainland Animal Control and had contracts in Anmore, Langley.
Not only that, but the SPCA was using the viley cruel killing machine
called the Electrothanator which the SPCA was too cheap to keep in good
working order, so it "fried" dogs who had to be zapped over and over.
"The SPCA had to kill 10,000 cats last
year." When explaining why the SPCA supported "round up and
kill" cat control by-laws.
"The SPCA only killed 4800 cats last
year." When taking credit for a reduction in cat euthanasias, if in
fact there was a reduction, and if so, credit properly belongs to the cat rescue network.
"The SPCA only started to collect
stray dogs (in Vancouver) because it disapproved of the city pound’s use of gas to
kill them." (Nicholas Read, Sun columnist, October 27/98.)
Nelson said this to justify the Vancouver SPCA’s panicky announcement,
after the Vancouver Pound declared it would be no-kill, that the Vancouver SPCA.
"Brian Nelson was the most adamant
holdout for the use of the electrothanator to kill dogs, and for shooting dogs."
Peter Hamilton, Director Lifeforce
Foundation. Read more on the brutal electrothanator,
click here
"I’ve
killed over 50,000 animals in my lifetime, and do you think I enjoy it?" April 20/00..At a meeting
of the District of North Vancouver’s Animal Cruelty Committee, Nelson defends SPCA
killing. Attended by District of North Vancouver staff,
ex-SPCA volunteer Ron Polly and AAS among others.
He didn't dislike it enough to get another job.
5.
The Vancouver SPCA in Coquitlam
"When we’re ready to put a
dog down, we don’t have time to phone you." When explaining why they
killed a Malamute instead of phoning Malamute rescue.
"Don’t pay any attention to the
neighbours – they’re just troublemakers." Coquitlam SPCA to a
dog neglector, whose dog was chained to a tree for two years.Told to Judy Stone by the
owner of the chained dog.
6. The Vancouver SPCA Clinic
"If you
can’t pay all your bill up front, you can surrender your sick/injured animal to
us."
To hundreds
of people without the cash to pay big vet bills immediately. All the people who reported to AAS that they had
been told this by the SPCA took it to mean that the animal would most likely be killed.
"I thought I would be able to help
needy animals by working at the SPCA clinic, but I found that most private vets do more
for animals and needy people than the SPCA clinic does." "Dr Jamie Lawson
told me that the SPCA hired Brian Nelson to stop him from expanding his private pound
contracting business to some of the SPCA's big contracts in the lower mainland."
Ex-
SPCA clinic veterinarian
7. The Vancouver SPCA in Surrey
"A tree is shelter." Surrey
SPCA about a 12 week old pup, chained to a tree, in the winter, to Judy Stone. (This
response is common). In Coquitlam the SPCA said that two dogs tied to a tree behind a
store had shelter - even though it was winter and the tree was leafless!!
"As long as you’re giving
it water, there’s no law being broken." Surrey SPCA about a 5 month
old pup, chained, its only water being mud or what was given by a neighbour. Many people have told AAS that they have been told that by the SPCA.
"Cost is a concern to us."
Shawn Eccles, SPCA Field Operations Manager, explaining why the SPCA was returning
nine severely neglected horses to their owner, March 1999 (horse people say the SPCA has
for years ignored the most horrifying cases of neglect of horses.)
"It died due to emaciation, probably due to lack of
food. Fat reserves had fallen from 80% to 5%." Doctor David Payton, DVM, on one of our horses that starved to death in a
field that could be viewed from the Surrey SPCA’s windows, 1992. (The owner of
the horses, Mark Durante, was well-known to the SPCA manager. It would have taken a long
time for the horses to starve, and the process was watched by the SPCA, who when asked why
they weren’t seizing the horses said "There’s no law being broken, they
aren’t bad enough yet." Not true, as has been proved by the SPCA's admission in 2001 that it can use the
PCA Act, but this is the SPCA’s oft-repeated reason for not spending money and time on the merely
helpless and dying, because they are quite busy enough (unionized jobs paying up to $30 an
hour, with many perks and benefits) with their animal control contracts. In
our opinion, a real SPCA animal-lover would not been have able to stand watching these
horses slowly die, and would have taken food to the horses when out of uniform.
8. The Vancouver SPCA in Burnaby
"We find that most
complaints are trivial." Said by Carson Wilson, manager of the Burnaby
SPCA in reference to Animal Advocates Society’s concerns about pups kept in
isolation, in tiny cages, with painful metal rack bottoms, in pet stores.) See the
pictures of these horrible cages that the SPCA approves of, click here
"We have always found pet
store owners to be very responsive." "We
had 33 complaints about pet stores in Burnaby last year." Said by Carson
Wilson, Manager, Vancouver SPCA in Burnaby, at a City of Burnaby committee meeting to look
into Animal Advocates Society’s allegations of pet store cruelty, September 22, 1999.
(Surrey SPCA, with far fewer pet stores, says it gets several calls a week.)
"We all get along
with SPCA. Whenever the SPCA comes, we always say, "Oh why are you here, you never
find anything wrong. The SPCA is our friend." Pet store owners at City of
Burnaby committee, Sept 22/99.
9. Parksville SPCA:
"If we pay that bill, we
won’t be able to pay ourselves." Kris Riggins, Administrator, when
cat rescuer took a sick feral cat to the vet, after being told by Riggins to trap the cat.
.....there are many more of these very revealing quotes that
AAS has on file. |
