At one time the Surrey SPCA, one of ten branches of the then Vancouver Regional SPCA which held as many as eighteen animal control contracts, killed raccoons for pest control companies. A "so-called" animal welfare society took money to kill raccoons. Which makes perfect sense when you think of it: the employees were all trained in animal control and killing so why not make a bit more money killing raccoons for pest control companies? One of the methods of killing that the SPCA admitted to was drowning the raccoons in a tub of water, right in the trap.

In the 1990s Critter Care in Langley found out and complained, pointing out that at certain times of the year some of the raccoons might be nursing mothers and the kits would die of starvation.

This would all be irrelvant history if it weren't for this: that the SPCA is still aggressively pursuing animal control/disposal contracts; that those contracts still cause harm to the SPCA's reputation, far worse harm that any that puny AAS could do it; and that some of its employees still talk like pest controllers.