FROM THE RICHMOND VIRGINIA SPCA WEB SITE:
"People take on the job of euthanizing animals because they love them and want to provide as much comfort as possible, says Stephanie LaFarge, director of counselling services for the American SPCA in New York City."

PET DISPOSAL BUSINESS LIES
This is one of the big lies in the pet disposal business, a business that is so vile and shocking, that causes so much horror and revulsion when the lid is lifted just a bit, that it needs a lot of lies to cover it up.

Even the hangman was not as reviled as the dog catcher was in our animal loving society because the hangman was widely perceived to be doing a necessary, though terrible, job. And even now, society can accept that someone has to kill dogs that have attacked and have proven that they are dangerous. That job was (and is) done by the dog catcher - the pound - with no secrecy needed because it can be seen to be necessary.

But the dog catcher didn't just hang the convicted - he hung the innocent, guilty only of being not wanted anymore, and that is why the dog catcher was so universally hated. In fact, pounds became places where the unwanted innocent were dragged shaking through the doors to be 'hanged', usually for free.

When so-called Humane Societies, such as SPCAs, decided to get into the dog control/disposal business they had to combine their life-saving image with the business of killing innocent animals. That is what is so corrupting - the need to hide what they were doing from their donators. The BC SPCA was never public about the dog disposal business it was in - that it was the hated dog catcher. In fact it denied ever "getting a penny in government money", when it was being paid millions in government money for dog control and disposal contracts. It lied about its euthanasia statistics for decades, in fact even now there is no way to trust its figures as it is the same people producing figures now that always did - themselves. And the finances and salaries were hidden too, in fact still are.

HOW UNLIMITED INTAKE CORRUPTS
But all Humane Societies with "shelters" were already corrupted by unlimited intake policies that provided lots of free product to sell but also needed a lot of disposal of the unsellable, which is the majority of pets being cast-off at "shelters" and pounds. So it was an easy step for these Humane Societies to doing paid disposal. They already had the tools and staff trained in killing. They already had the corporate culture of pet disposal and secrecy. It was a sensible business decision for Humane Societies to get into the paid dog disposal business.

Aside from deliberate statements like "We don't get a penny of government money", how else did the BC SPCA hide all the killing of innocents it was doing for its two businesses of dog control/disposal and second hand pet sales? It used the tried-and-true p.r. spins that it was morally superior for taking all pets than the morally inferior "limited intake" organizations, but did not say that its policy of taking all pets meant that it actually enabled and encouraged a culture of pet abandonment, and that it often killed the majority of them. Instead it said the reason it had to kill pets was because of "irresponsible" pet owners. It blamed its supplier. And 99.9% of animal lovers bought that.

It said that it was a terrible job but someone had to do it, instead of shutting off the supply of pets it was selling by aggressive sterilization programs, breeding control laws, meaningful education, and the outright refusal to kill so many cast-off pets. It blamed everyone but itself. Again, the media and the public bought it. It was a decades-long successful p.r. campaign. Even now the BC SPCA is using p.r. over real animal welfare when it attempts to sell more dogs more quickly with TV ads that encourage people to view dogs as life-style accessories.

And it had to defend the employees that killed the animals from the loathing of the public. It did this by saying that it is a terrible job, and no one likes to kill animals but someone has to do it.

NO ONE IS FORCED TO KILL PETS FOR A LIVING
First - no one has to kill animals for a living: there are other jobs. No real animal lover would do it no matter how much money they were paid. If you're in the plumbing business, you have to employ plumbers. If you're in the pet disposal business, you have to hire pet disposers

And secondly, if someone has to do it, it should not be anyone at a Society that makes millions by saying it loves and protects animals.

It is a perverted twist of logic to say that it is loving to kill the healthy and innocent. It reveals, in microcosm, the whole perverted, twisted animal welfare game. And if you look closely, you will see that in fact by saying that it is humane to kill pets rather than keep them locked up for long, the pet disposers are saying that it is their own inhumane shelters that they are saving the animals from by killing them, instead of making the shelters humane and refusing to take more animals than can be held happily. How's that for perverted logic?

But that logic has worked successfully for a long time. Spare us the whines of the paid pet disposers. We don't buy it.