From: http://www.atlantaanimalalliance.com/outdoorcats.htm

Ultimately, pets have people problems, not vice versa, says Chortyk. “As a society we need to step up and take responsibility for the animals in our care and in our communities. When we take a cat into our home we are agreeing to provide food, safety, care and loving companionship for his or her lifetime.”

The SPCA urges animal lovers to work with other concerned individuals in their communities to monitor roaming cats, to encourage neighbors to spay and neuter their pets and to ensure that cats have proper shelter and identification. “We hope people will open their hearts to the suffering of the many abandoned cats in their community,” says Chortyk. “Together, we can work at nurturing a society in which cats are respected and valued, not viewed as disposable.”

The BC SPCA can say anything it wants but until the BC SPCA develops and implements programs that actually DO something the words spoken by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals are HOLLOW and SELF-SERVING.
Many community groups are struggling to fill the gaping ravine that the BC SPCA has created by pretending to do many things.
Sure, the community wants to HELP but it seems the BC SPCA wants us to do it ALL. The BC SPCA has to start to do its part too.

Our society so far in the month of June 2004 alone has assisted with the spaying of 51 cats, the neutering of 36 cats, the spaying of 15 dogs, the neutering of 12 dogs and 51 other emergency procedures.

Perhaps the BC SPCA Victoria Branch would like to similarily publish their verifiable statistics for the community of Victoria to see.