Powell River SPCA volunteer Robyn Robinson tells us that the SPCA has been finding foster homes for the pets of violence victims for nine years.

Robyn tell us that there are no figures kept, and that Powell River is pretty small, and usually family members take the pets, but if needed the Powell River SPCA is there for these women and their pets.

There is no prison facility (which the BC SPCA calls "shelters") so all the Powell River SPCA's animals are sheltered the way they ought to be - in homes. The Powell River SPCA does not have a dog-catcher's contract the way so many other SPCAs do, so animals aren't sickeningly crowded.

Not only that, but if needed, the Powell River SPCA will sterilize and medically treat the animals they are fostering for a violence victim. Just the way the hundreds of real animal rescuers and welfarists who the SPCA calls "extremist critics" do.

And every single case of animal abuse that is investigated where children also reside are reported to the local child protection agency (MCFD).

We have praised the manager, Audrey Hill, in the past for running an SPCA that ought to be the template for every SPCA in BC. But the BC SPCA does not even know all that Audrey does. Head Office spokesperson, Peter Mwenda, told several callers that the SPCA will only accept animals from victims of violence if the animal is surrendered to the SPCA (thereby allowing the SPCA to kill it and further victimizing the woman). He could not tell us of one SPCA branch that fostered pets of victims of violence and he could not tell us of one transition house that takes pets.

So our hat is off again to Audrey Hill and her hard-working volunteers.

Read the whole SPCA "Violence Link Project" scam here