This criticism of AAS is written by a long-time Surrey SPCA volunteer who has had more than enough time to figure out why the SPCA kills so many animals while claiming it is the lead animal welfare society in BC.
It is this gullibility that is so saddening: that so many people, who are in a position to make real change at the SPCA by telling the truth about what they see and know, defend the status quo. With too few exceptions, this is what SPCA animals have to save their lives and to speak for them: career pet disposers and gullible defenders of animal disposing.
SPCAs don't just dispose of animals by killing them, though it does that frequently. It disposes of far more by selling them into neglect and abuse. It does no (or very close to no) home checks, and we are reliably told that it does no, or almost no, screening. There is no BC SPCA policy on home checks and so it is not done in almost every branch. We know first hand as well as being told by others that even when the SPCA has sold a dog that is then neglected, even chained, that it will do nothing.
We know first hand that the SPCA will sell a dog to a person who openly says it will be kept in a yard.
That is not animal welfare, and it is not "adopting" as the SPCA deceitfully calls it. It is selling product. Until SPCA standards of rehoming are as high as real animal welfarists' standards, it should not be defended by anyone who claims to love animals.
"I find it very sad that an organization can get away with spreading such false and hurtful accusations. Yes, a dog recently transferred to Delta in the exchanges was euthanized, but she had serious dog aggression problems and was extremely stressed in her kennel (spinning in circles/bouncing off her kennel walls). She spent 6 weeks at Surrey and could not find a suitable home willing to work on her very difficult issues. Staff and volunteers did their best to relieve her stresses, but there are so many others also needing that time and it was just not possible to help her as she needed to be in a shelter environment. Two weeks ago she was transferred to the Delta SPCA where it is not as busy or stressful as the Surrey SPCA is. Tina did not improve there and her dog aggression and kennel stress continued to grow...something that is very difficult to see a dog go through. To say 'just put her in a home then' is not as easy as one may think for a dog with serious dog aggression problems. "