"The complaints from sanctuary employees have prompted an inquiry from local animal welfare officials. Eric Anderson, head of San Luis Obispo County Animal Services, said his department concluded that the euthanized animals were "either beyond treatment or had conditions for which euthanasia would be at least one of the considerations that could responsibly be made."

In the 1990s "animal welfare" joined the ranks of words warped by members of the false animal welfare industry, joining other words warped to seem to mean the exact opposite of what they represented.

Words like "euthanasia", widely accepted as meaning assisted death when death is unavoidable, when the industry was (and is) killing animals on specious grounds such as ear mites;

like "adoption", when adoption is widely accepted to mean strict screening with only the most suitable homes accepted, when the industry was (and is) selling animals with no home checks, little screening and no back-up assistance;

like "humane destruction", when the industry used (and uses) electrothanators and gas boxes which often cause (cheap) agonizing and fear-filled deaths;

like "shelter" when the widely accepted meaning of the word shelter (replacing the honest word "pound") does not mean physically and psychologically damaging cages where some of the "sheltered" are killed for being "too many";

like "adoptable animals" as in "When the SPCA must euthanize an animal it is for the same reason 'so-called' no-kill facilities euthanize animals - to end the suffering of an animal that is beyond medical help...", when the SPCA permits itself reasons such as "too many dogs" as a reason to kill dogs.