Found: After several years of refusing to stop electrocuting dogs, the SPCA was forced to stop by bad P.R. - not by compassion. AAS has over 60 pages of engineer's reports, letters, newspaper clippings and press releases. (See the details: http://www.animaladvocates.com/spca-electrothanator-history.htm) Here's the telling part: BC SPCA CEO Al Hickey said that "Local branches have been given two years to comply. Some of them are locked into animal control contracts with municipalities for up to two years. Since injections are more expensive than the electrocution method, some branches will be unable to switch until their contracts come up for negotiation." And the manager of the Langley SPCA said that the reason the SPCA electrocutes dogs is because it is the cheapest method.

That is exactly what AAS has alleged from the beginning of our fight to make the SPCA reform. The SPCA's pound contracting business was about money, not, as the SPCA always insists, about animal welfare. There was nothing to stop the BC SPCA from paying the difference to the branches that had contracts to dispose of dogs. When you consider that killing by injection only cost (at that time) about $1.00, cost should have been no impediment to humane killing. Not unless the branches were killing several thousand dogs are year. As they were of course, in spite of the SPCA's lying statistics to the contrary. AAS pointed out long ago that dog disposing contracts require a ruthless attention to expenses to be profitable, and that it is immoral and corrupting for an "animal welfare" organization to be in the business of disposing of animals. For saying that we are being told that we are defaming the SPCA, but of course it has defamed itself as it has and continues to do in so many other ways.