They have no local people sitting on their board. Their SPCA is controlled by Vancouver. Except West Vancouver which had the wisdom and true interest in animals welfare to refuse to allow their board to be replaced by the Vancouver board, and they also refused to be the dog catcher for West Vancouver because it would require them to kill dogs if ordered to. In West Vancouver, the poundkeeper is the bylaws department. These horrible machines use an electric current that passes through the dogs.
Witnesses tell of sickeningly brutal deaths of dogs.
Peter Hamilton of Lifeforce Foundation in Vancouver has much first-hand evidence. At that time, the board of the Vancouver SPCA had six real animal-loving members who wanted to replace the electrothanator with humane injection, and instructed their management to do so. The electrothanator was free. Humane injection would take money out of their pockets. Before the issue could be forced, the next A.G.M. was held.