Twenty years ago I found out what kind of people the SPCA hired and I knew that the bosses hired these people deliberately to carry out the SPCA's pest control business.

Cruelty, lying, hypocrisy, defrauding animal-lovers out of millions of dollars a year is what I documented. What has changed?

I think I can see some improvement in facility practices, but since the SPCA has chosen not to be open and post what specific changes are taking place and where, I can't be sure. It is big on sweeping P.R. announcements about "miracles in the branches" but short on specifics.

Improvements have been made, but only after years of hard, grinding work of investigating and documenting SPCA animal-offing business practices, and threats to sue me failed. It isn't possible to trust anyone or any organization that only improves when refusing to has failed. That kind of change is based, not on ethics, but on the bottom line, so the SPCA is still an organization that protects itself first, just as it always has.