Kelly Aitkin was caught when she worked for the Newfoundland SPCA, as so many compassionate workers at humane societies have been, in the problem of what should be done with society's unwanted pet animals. Kelly asked, "When the last foster home is filled and your neighbor's cat has yet another litter, where do we put them?"
The short answer is a question: If someone is going to kill them, should that agency be an animal welfare society, supported by animal lovers, or an government agency paid for by taxpayers?
AAS began saying many years ago that the disposal of pet animals is a government responsibility and that for an animal welfare society to do this is corrupting in that it almost always leads to cruelty, secrecy, and dishonesty by the disposing societies. We proved many times over that this happened in BC.
But it is said with greater authority by the leader of the no-kill movement, Richard Avanzino, a lawyer who became president of the San Francisco SPCA in the 1990s, who says, "We were founded to protect our communities animals and provide for their well being, not to perform animal control or kill cats and dogs. The killing function is a government responsibility and passing it off to a humane organization through a contract is a disconnect."
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