It's not very likely that Maple Ridge SPCA employee Michel Massey said the SPCA was no-kill as no one at the SPCA (so far) uses that term. But ever since 2002, when the SPCA was exposed by volunteers on TV for killing a lot of nice dogs for space (claiming falsely that the dogs were all aggressive and then being exposed for that deceit too), and it did frantic damage-control by announcing that it would no longer kill for space, the public has thought (not surprisingly) that the SPCA is no-kill.

The "moratorium on killing for space" was soon revealed as bogus, but was replaced by SPCA statements such as this one made by BC SPCA Craig Daniell in the Vancouver Sun (February 13, 2008), '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' , further led the public to assume that the SPCA is no-kill. AAS is told frequently by confused animal-lovers that the SPCA is no-kill.

AAS did a poll of many animal rescue groups and none of them agree that they euthanize for the many reasons the SPCA does (See '56 Reasons' list below). In fact, most of the reasons on the SPCA's list 'euthanasia' list aren't euthanasia: they are flat-out killing for space, or the SPCA's version of 'disease control' or to save money.