ANIMALADVOCATES SOCIETY OF BC - THE SPCA TRIES TO SABOTAGE THE DISTRICT OF NORTH VANCOUVER SHELTER

THESE LETTERS SHOW HOW THE DEPOSED SPCA EMPLOYEES ARE FIGHTING TO GET BACK THE DOG-DISPOSAL CONTRACT IN THE DISTRICT OF NORTH VANCOUVER

For two years the employees at the North Vancouver SPCA fought to stop the District of North Vancouver from discontinuing to contract dog control to the SPCA. The animals won in the District of North Vancouver and the SPCA was gone, January 1st, 2002, and the District started running its its own shelter. http://www.district.north-van.bc.ca/article.asp?c=576

This is what AAS wanted stopped: RON POLLY, BRIAN NELSON, AND JEFF LAWSON STATEMENTS; and this: THE SPCA UNION FIGHTS TO KEEP ITS JOBS PROVIDING "SERVICES"

This is the way the employees fought: SPCA PROPAGANDA

AAS sent the following letter to the North Shore News. It wasn't published.

May 28, 2002

The Letters Editor,
The North Shore News

Last week, as I was in the Vancouver SPCA, a person trying to surrender pets was told that they would have to make a donation. The policy at most SPCAs in the lower mainland now is to try to get some money to both offset the expenses of dumped animals and to send the message that it is no longer easy and cheap to get rid of helpless animals that are no longer cute, or too expensive, or take too much time, or are untrained and dangerous. This is the reason most pets are surrendered, not for the heart-tugging pictures of hardship that the SPCA paints.

This week we got an email from a person who told us that when their neighbour tried to dump their dog they were turned down by the Richmond and the Vancouver SPCA because they were full. This is good news for animals.

What do people think the SPCA does with animals that it keeps taking, even when it is full? It does what it has been doing for fifty years - it kills animals to make room for more. Fifty years of easy pet disposal. Fifty years of enabling and entrenching irresponsible behaviour. How can anyone defend that?

It appears that the SPCA is finally being dragged, kicking and screaming, out of the animals' dark ages of the old SPCA and into 21st century animal welfare.

Judy Stone,
President,
Animal Advocates Society of BC

See also how the SPCA's union employees worked to undermine the new Coquitlam Animal Shelter (which also stopped contracting with the SPCA, click here)