AAS is performing the most necessary animal welfare work of all when it performs the public service of telling readers that there is much at the SPCA that must be reformed for the misery and killing to stop; the misery and killing that drives all real animal welfarists to do the work we do on a pittance and out of our own pockets.

There is only one way to protect animals in BC from cruelty and that is to make the SPCA stop being cruel itself and start to do real animal welfare.

None of us can do what the SPCA can do. That is why AAS has not ever wanted the SPCA to be destroyed. In fact, we have said repeatedly that we want the SPCA to be financially strong so that it can properly do the jobs it is mandated to do: prevent cruelty and promote animal welfare. But to trust that it has reformed its old animal-using ways, the SPCA has to be as open, accountable, and transparent as it tells the media it is.

Just asking the SPCA to be open, accountable and transparent, and to do real animal welfare, was a waste of breath. Everyone who has ever tried has been stopped, right from the top with directors fired for being too humane, to staff fired for being too humane, to volunteers told to never come back for being too humane, to many real animal welfarists who begged for decades and were derided and ignored while the SPCA got on expanding its pet disposal business. We have proof of this going back decades.