Why is the BCSPCA accepting unwanted dogs from Mississippi while killing unwanted dogs from BC? What motive could it possibly have? Let's examine the possibilities.

1. Altruism. The BCSPCA certainly likes to portray the image of an organization that prevents cruelty; killing healthy dogs is clearly cruel. On the surface, accepting dogs scheduled to be killed in another facility is laudable. The problem, of course, is that the BCSPCA admits to killing healthy dogs itself.

In a 6 October 2004 press release, Craig Daniell admitted that the SPCA kills hundreds, perhaps thousands of healthy adoptable animals in northern and remote areas of BC every year.

2. Profit. While shepherd and rottweiler crosses languish in concrete cells until they go crazy from boredom, exotic young coonhounds should be easy to sell.

The resources utilized to move these dogs from Mississippi to Nanaimo must have been considerable. Perhaps next time the money would be better spent on local programs in both Mississippi and BC, instead of on cross-continent pet-shuffling.