Mr Nelson ran the Vancouver SPCA's huge dog control/disposal contracting business. At one time it had eighteen contracts with Lower Mainland municipalities.

AAS and others managed to convince the municipalities of the District of North Vancouver and the City of Coquitlam to discontinue contracting dog control/disposal with the SPCA and to operate their own "Municipal Pound" by showing those municipalities that the SPCA was badly doing animal control and no real animal welfare, and was running bare-bones, bottom-line businesses that horrified and angered many animal-lovers, and that the SPCA was cheating the District of North Vancouver on its disposal fees.

Except for the loss of those two contracts, the Vancouver SPCA's dog disposal/contracting business was in expansion mode when the CEO of the Vancouver SPCA was revealed to be making $204,000 a year at which time Mr Nelson quit the Vancouver SPCA. On the CEO and Mr Nelson's watch the SPCA signed a ten-year agreement with its CUPE local.

Before that Mr Nelson owned his own dog control/disposal business, Mainland Animal Control. One of his contracts was with Langley. When the Vancouver SPCA hired Mr Nelson to run its dog control/disposal business, Mr Nelson moved out of his facility and the Vancouver SPCA moved in. The conditions that dogs have had to endure at that facility, under both Mr Nelson and the SPCA, can be likened to a mad house of the 17th century or a penal institution of the 19th century. Neither of them spent money to make the conditions there in the least humane.

So we are glad that the BC SPCA is leaving but we hope that Mr Nelson is not allowed to pick up the pound contract. Afterall - he still owns that grim place.