We know too well what some scientists have done to animals for over a hundred years. While invoking the ideology of "scientific purity", animals have been cooked, skinned, and operated on alive, injected, paralysed, isolated to madness, blinded, caged, and tortured in more ways than a wholesome mind or a feeling heart can bear to think of.

The SPCA is using the "pure science" scam to fool the media who then help to fool the public. It hired Nadine Gourkow as its "science-speak" person after if became horrifyingly clear to the SPCA that the internet and brave insiders meant it would no longer get away with its decades of secret killing that so successfully saved money and freed up space for more dogs that might be more sellable.

Here is what the SPCA has to say about Gourkow:

BC SPCA's Shelter Dog Management (SDM) Program - Part 1
Nadine Gourkow, Manager of Animal Welfare Research, BC SPCA
Dr. Rebecca Ledger, University of British Columbia
Nadine and Rebecca were part of the team that worked collaboratively to develop the SDM Program at the BC SPCA. The System is rooted in scientific knowledge about dog welfare, human/dog relationships and community health. It promotes a team approach to decision-making that weighs the welfare of dogs, adopters and the community while considering equitable distribution of resources to all shelter dogs. (Ledger earned) a bachelor of education with a minor in social work at the University of Calgary, after moving to Canada. She also holds a masters in animal science from UBC, and is currently a PhD candidate in anthrozoology at the University of Southampton in the UK. (Vancouver Courier: Sept 16/02.)

considering equitable distribution of resources to all shelter dogs.

There it is...the real reason for dog assessment tests. Since there are no paid rehabilitators at the SPCA and since it's ruthlessness drives away volunteer rehabilitators and good staff such as Amanda Muir and Kirsten McConnell, the "resources" it boasts of are almost non-existent. It's final and often-used "resource" is the needle which a great money-saver.