In 2000, AAS created the AAS web site and posted the results of our three-year investigation into the BC SPCA.

We documented and proved - by searching newspaper archives, obtaining what financial information was not hidden, in letters, in videos, photographs, and tape-recordings - that the SPCA was not doing animal welfare as it told its donators, but that it had been engaged for fifty years in the pet disposal business through dog control contracts all over BC, and through its policy of unlimited surrender, which provided all the free product for its pet recycling centres. And that those two businesses - stray dogs disposal for municipalities, and pet recycling for the public, meant that the SPCA killed thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of pets a year, that were not quickly sellable.

We showed how little the SPCA spent on animals and education and how much on itself. We showed and recounted the inhumane conditions that the SPCA kept animals in, so bad that the SPCA could have, and should have, been charged with cruelty to animals, and how high off the hog SPCA employees kept themselves.

We showed how any humane employees were driven away from the SPCA because they tried to practice real animal welfare which got in the way of the SPCA's pet disposal business, leaving only employees who were willing to take a cheque to dispose of animals year after year without questioning the morality of what they were doing.

We showed how the SPCA was so corrupted that it permitted its employees to breed and sell animals on the side while being paid to kill excess animals by the SPCA.

We showed how the SPCA was so corrupted that it used its training and tools for animal-disposal to expand into the business of killing people's unwanted pets for them, even healthy pets, even when there was no proof that the person paying was the actual owner of the doomed animal.

We showed how the SPCA had almost never used the PCA Act to prevent cruelty, permitting the most egregious acts of cruelty to go uninvestigated.

We showed how the SPCA had kept the very worst puppymillers in business for decades by telling them that they were breaking no law. Sometimes the SPCA got to sell some of the unwanted purebred dogs and pups from these puppymillers.

We showed that the BC SPCA stopped the legislature of BC from improving the PCA Act to include a clearer definition of food, water and shelter, after AAS had obtained wide-spread MLA support for these improvements. AAS asked for these improvements after we had documented many cases where the SPCA told complainants that a tree or a garage overhang was legally "shelter" and that it could do nothing because the Act was inadequate. The BC SPCA stopped the improvements by telling the government that the Act was adequate and needed no improvement.

And we posted the proof in writing that the then CEO had lied to us when he told us that the BC SPCA was working with the provincial government on improvements to the Act.

The above points were reinforced by hundreds of accounts of SPCA corruption and cruelty that AAS investigated, documented and published.

But it wasn't until AAS paid for a large newspaper ad in the Winter of 2000 that showed "Judith" our poster chained-dog, and saying that the SPCA knew about her for ten years and did nothing, that the SPCA took action to silence us. We were told by many people that they told the SPCA that they were not going donate to it anymore.

In January 2001 the SPCA started its first legal threatening to financially ruin me. It was all about money. When AAS would not back down, but posted even more damning documentation, and saying that there was more to come if the SPCA did not reform, the SPCA announced it would reform.

It announced a round of Community Consultations which it carried out in many BC communities in the summer of 2001, and on November 3, 2001 it released its report, which we have posted below.

AAS praised the report fulsomely for being honest and forthright and for understanding what real animal welfare is and for acknowledging the policies that are not animal welfare and therefore are unethical , and we put a link on our web site to it. In our opinion, that was the last time the SPCA was honest.

(See AAS's SPCA web pages here http://www.animaladvocates.com/spca-pages.htm and WatchDog Top Stories here: http://www.animaladvocates.com/Watchdog/WatchDogFP.htm)