Early last year the BC SPCA said it would consider if was going to get out of the dog control/disposal business and would announce its decision in October. So far we are not aware that it has made any such decision, or at least has not publicly said so.

We reiterate - we do not believe that a true animal welfare organization can also control/dispose of dogs for money without corrupting.

We are not the only ones. It is now a given in progressive U.S. animal welfare circles that it is corrupting. But it became widespread, we believe because the employees that are required to kill dogs for pound contracts were already trained in euthanasia at the 'in-name-only' animal welfare organizations. They had the trained employees and the tools, so pound contracting was an obvious side-line and source of steady income. In fact, it easily slipped into being the focus of some of these organizations, which never publicly admitted to the conflict but which went after more and more contracts, so that many of their employees did little else. Almost entirely ignored in favour of the growth of a pound contracting empire were the promotion of animal welfare, humane education, spay and neuter, lobbying for improved laws, controls on puppy mills and back yard breeders, and most importantly, the prevention of cruelty and the prosecution of animal abusers.

The requirement to kill also led to the kind of employee who the public were repelled by: rude; indifferent; obstructive of volunteer's efforts to save lives, or even to make the doomed comfortable - employees who were willing to take a paycheque year after year for a job that required almost daily killing of pet animals. It also led to killing racoons for pest control companies and cheap killing of pets for cash. AAS's Web Mag documents all this over and over.