The Nanaimo SPCA failed the family it sold Sophie to and it failed Sophie too. No human welfare...no animal welfare. Remember...Springer Spaniel Rescue warned the Nanaimo SPCA before it sold Sophie, that it might make the mistake that it did then make and it offered to take Sophie, rehabilitate her, place her in the right home and save her life...and was turned down. Can it get worse? Can the conflict between protecting humans and protecting animals be made any clearer?

The Nanaimo SPCA did neither human nor animal welfare. After victimizing a family, it then victimized an animal. BC SPCAs everywhere do this repeatedly: They sell an unrehabilitated dog to unsuspecting people who are then bitten (often it is their child that is bitten), and then either the family has to have the dog killed (a trauma that is equal to the death of a loved one for many people), or take it back to the SPCA where they are told the SPCA is going to kill it.

A moral mess like this one is a sad indicator of the state of the BC SPCA. But it clearly delineates the ethical conflict that is the cause of the mess, and the cause of the deaths of so many innocent animals at the hands of the Society that claims to protect them.

The conflict is that the SPCA began at some point in its history, long ago, to serve humans, not animals. It became the free and easy dumping ground for unwanted pets. It became the paid dog catcher. It became society's animal disposer. It began killing dogs that might bite a human instead of rehabilitating the dog. It began the long list of anti-animal welfare polices that paid it, and its employees, for decades. The list will be posted shortly, for those who still don't understand the business of animal disposal.

What we can say here is that the only beneficiaries of this affair are the employees who are paid to do what they "hate to do".