This is what the BC SPCA calls "animal welfare": This is what the BC SPCA calls "miracles in the branches"

"We don't know where it came from, we don't know who the carrier was," she said. "We don't know how it was transmitted, if it was human transmission or if it was animal transmission. We just know that they were sick."

How long has Woodhouse been working for the SPCA? Quite a few years we believe. And she doesn't know what made the cats sick? No one did a blood test? Not one? Everyone I know who has done cat rescue even for a few months, can recognize "shelter" diseases and if they couldn't, they sure would find out, and start treatment, not start killing. And did you notice? The SPCA does in-house killing. There's quite a savings if you are killing in bulk.

This is not animal welfare. Welfare does not include making the homeless sick and then killing them. But that is precisely what the SPCA has been passing off as animal welfare for at least 50 years. And doing very nicely by it too....as much as $15 million a year in donations from animal lovers.

The shelter has been receiving hundreds of cats each month Woodhouse said, ever since the shelter was no longer able to fund a program to help low-income people spay and neuter their pets due to the loss of $50,000 in lottery money.

First...the BC SPCA is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars of money, given to it by animal lovers for spay/neuter and animal welfare, on a Supreme Court action to silence AAS, just one tiny voice of criticism out of a fast-growing union of animal lovers who are using the internet to expose the SPCA and force it to do honest animal welfare. The SPCA has plenty of money for high-paid staff, lawyers, vehicles, travel, retreats, lawyers, consultants, studies, P.R., and did we mention lawyers? While lavishing MMA (Money Meant for Animals) on itself, it cries poor to the media, while its 3D facilities (dirty, disease-filled, dumps) get more run-down by the year. People have complained about the appalling condition of these SPCA "shelters" for decades. What does it tell you about the SPCA that it spends so much money on vendettas and on itself, while killing animals that it makes sick by unlimited surrender?

Second... As for the overcrowding: Don't believe the 'poor us, its a dirty job, but we are so humane that we kill for kindness', or the 'this is not our fault, it's the fault of all those 'irresponsible" people'.

That's no more true than the SPCA saying it doesn't have the money for spay/neuter while it does have plenty of money to sue its little critics. Overcrowding is the unavoidable and therefore well-known end result of the SPCA's policy of unlimited surrender, and unlimited surrender is the supplier of pets to the pet reselling business. Sick and dead cats are one of the costs of doing business, or as the BC SPCA CEO might put it, "collateral damage". The CEO is the one who boasted last year about the "miracles in the branches".

Watch this space for more "miracles in the branches" reports.