AAS doesn't agree that enforcement of the PCA act should be up to municipalities. In fact, AAS has urged the SPCA to get out of poundkeeping so that it can free up resources to do MORE enforcement. It should be seizing more animals, and it should have a few shelters that are specifically and only for seized animals which are the result of stepped up enforcement. Municipalities should do animal control, the SPCA should do enforcement of neglect and cruelty laws and if that includes a badly-run pound, good!
By the way - the police are always having to do the SPCA's work because the SPCA won't, and it makes them hopping mad. Case in point - the starving horses in Anahim lake. The SPCA ignored complaints for years so the neighbours finally begged the RCMP to investigate. Two years ago I talked to the officer in charge and like so many others, he was "irritated' by having to do the SPCA's work plus his own. The SPCA should be streamlining its operations so that it dedicates itself to what it was created to do 107 years ago, enforce the PCA act.

By the way again - the Anahim Lake story was another blatant grab by the SPCA and its media buddies for credit. Nicholas Read of the Vancouver Sun did not mention once that it was not the SPCA that initiated the investigation and that if it had been up to the SPCA the horses would be starving still.