For decades the SPCA piously said, 'We don't turn an animal away'. What a great money-making slogan! Except that no organization has unlimited space, so the SPCA took all the free 'product' (its word for its animals) surrendered to it every day, and killed the unsellable (what it calls 'unadoptable'). In fact, if an animal hadn't sold or was unlikely to be sold, it was, using SPCA logic, 'unadoptable'. If an animal has health or behaviour problems, even simple ones, using SPCA logic, that animal can be labelled 'unadoptable' and killed.

The BC SPCA takes in around $23 million a year, much of it from people who have just 'always' donated to it. Yet it still kills animals for what it vaguely calls 'lack of resources'; how many it kills it won't or at least, hasn't said, even after the CEO told the Vancouver Sun's Barbara Yaffe in 2004 that he would.

What is the SPCA's surrender policy now? After many decades of unethical unlimited surrender, and consequently (and secretly) killing hundreds of thousands of animals, in effect being the pest-pet disposer for BC, is the SPCA quietly starting to practice ethical limited surrender?

Isn't it about time that the SPCA's donators had straightforward answers to some straightforward questions?