AAS first offered the BC SPCA the information from the Puppy Trafficking database on Sep 5/02; we never received a reply.

Puppy Trafficking Database Coordinator, Joann Bessler, sent another offer to share the entire database to the new BC SPCA manager of cruelty investigations, Craig Daniell, on January 4th, in which she wrote:

"For the good of the pups and dogs, this unregulated industry must be brought into the light of day. All traffickers in puppies - the breeders, the home retailers, and the pet store retailers, must be regulated. They must be licensed, their premises and animals subject to inspection for infractions of the regulations, and they must be required to include their license number in every advertisement and at the place of sale. Pups and dogs must be traceable, from breeder to trafficker to buyer: microchip technology makes this achievable. There is plenty of money in the pet selling industry to pay for inspection and enforcement ... it just needs to be collected from those profiting at the expense of the animals."

Again, no reply.

On Jan 15/03 AAS received a request from the manager of the Burnaby SPCA for our database information on breeders in Burnaby as a result of Burnaby City staff, wanting to know of any instances of dog mistreatment that AAS had records of. (Interesting to note that direct letters to the SPCA accomplish nothing, but a story in a newspaper garners a next-day demand for information.)

He and the City of Burnaby were sent this information from the database:
http://www.animaladvocates.com/PTBurnabyStatsJan03.pdf