After some bills went unpaid for two years, Dr Gordon McDonald, owner of Langley Animal Clinic, has filed a claim against the SPCA in small claims court for as much as $7,000 to $8,000.

The interesting part is some of that debt is for spay/neuter certificates the SPCA won't honour.

The certificates are paid for by the purchaser, at the time of the purchase from an SPCA, of an intact animal, about $45.00 for a dog and $30.00 for a cat. If the purchaser of the animal never gets the animal sterilized, then the SPCA gets to keep the money. That accounts for the SPCA never enforcing its agreement that a intact animal must be sterilized, and for so many decades of selling intact animals rather than doing pre-adoption sterilization as real animal welfarists do, even the tiniest, brokest ones. It was money for old rope.

If the purchaser does get the animal sterilized, then the vet knocks the value of the certificate off his bill to the owner and then submits the certificate to the SPCA for refunding.

But if the SPCA won't refund the certificate to the vet, it gets to keep the money.

Not bad....

While telling vets it is too poor to pay their bills, it is spending the vets' money to sue AAS so that we can't do things like tell vets that the SPCA has got plenty of money, just screwed up priorities on what to spend it on. AAS is in the process of sending a letter to every vet in BC, telling them that if they haven't been paid, it may be because the SPCA is spending their money to sue AAS.

Dr McDonald is very forthright in his opinion of the SPCA, saying, among other things that we will not repeat because they might get him sued too, "Everyone should know how bad the SPCA is", when we asked him if we could go public with this.

Dr McDonald also told AAS that many vets in BC are in the same position and that the SPCA is disingenuously getting money from seizures and prosecutions (something AAS realized as soon as the SPCA let loose its wannabe cops on unsuspecting animal owners, bringing the media with it). Like many vets, Dr McDonald knows that most of the animals the SPCA seizes should be left where they are and conditions improved on-site, not trucked under extreme distress and then neglected, sometimes to death, by ignorant SPCA staff.

The SPCA has killed thousands of animals deliberately for its dog control and pet recycling businesses, but it has also killed thousands more by neglect - for which it will eventually be charged, if the SPCA is not completely gutted by government and a new board and executive installed.