Letter
Published: Monday, March 03, 2008
Re: Attack on SPCA full of misinformation, Soundoff, Feb. 19

From personal experience, I know that at least one claim by Craig Daniell is untrue. He stated, "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 or to protect the public from a highly aggressive animal that has not responded to rehabilitation."

The SPCA has euthanized animals when a shelter filled up despite standing offers from rescue groups to take them and despite the fact that cats were suffering from no more than a common curable illness. That is euthanizing for space.

I was the volunteer who put animals on the website for the Maple Ridge and Coquitlam SPCAs. I still have the names and log book numbers of animals that lost their lives needlessly.

Brigitta MacMillan
Maple Ridge