AAS gets so many emails and phone calls begging us to help a dog, because the SPCA still will not do anything of any real use to the dog or for the animal lover that is forced to witness prolonged cruelty and neglect.

The SPCA is adept at reports and promises and insinuations that it is proactive for suffering dogs, but it is all just P.R. In March 2003, the CEO produced a slick report on Tethering for his board of directors. It is still not being acted on. (Read the Report: http://www.animaladvocates.com/cgi-bin/newsroom.pl/read/7461)

In the SPCA's AnimalSense magazine, Spring 2004, the SPCA led readers to believe that it had convicted the owner of a dog named Bonnie it had seized for psychological neglect. Not true. Amanda Muir, then of the Delta SPCA, told us what our reading of the judgement said, that the owner handed Bonnie over and was convicted of only physical distress. (Read more: http://www.animaladvocates.com/cgi-bin/newsroom.pl/read/7462)

Last year at this time, when the lower mainland was experiencing record low temperatures, AAS was begged to help many freezing dogs. One dog we didn't hear of until too late. (Read more: http://www.animaladvocates.com/cgi-bin/newsroom.pl/read/4186)

Has the SPCA improved its response to reports of freezing dogs? If the number of reports that AAS gets are any indication, the answer is no.

This old, arthritic shepherd was reported to the SPCA for almost ten years. It died in this pen.....