Will the BC SPCA continue to hold the Langley dog control/disposal contract?

The SPCA could hold onto its contract by running it from Abbotsford. The dog control/disposal business is a serious conflict of interest that the SPCA must address before it can truly reform as it says it is doing. All pounds must kill some dogs. A pound's only legal reason to exist is to protect citizens from loose and dangerous dogs. Dangerous dogs must be killed. A stray dog can be returned to its owner if claimed; if not claimed, it can be sold; if not sold; it is killed. No pound has property on another planet to keep all the dogs that no one is ever going to buy. For fifty years the SPCA wore the white hat of animal welfare in public and the black hat of dog disposal behind closed doors. If the BC SPCA is sincere about reforming it will have to disencumber itself of the obligation to kill dogs.

If the SPCA is not going to continue to do dog-disposal in Langley, then Langley animal-lovers must act quickly to prevent another private pound contractor, such as Mainland Animal Control, from grabbing the contract.

Langley animal-lovers must quickly urge their Mayor and Council to operate its own "Municipal Pound" as does the District of North Vancouver and the City of Coquitlam.