BC SPCA Head Office is hotly denying that there is any deviation from its official policy of "never turning an animal away". (See policy in sub-post.) This unlimited surrender meant that the SPCA at one time killed the majority of the dogs and cats and caged pets it took in because (in the SPCA's own words) "There isn't enough homes for them." The SPCA knew it was going to kill many thousands of pets a year and yet it accepted them anyway. Of course, it also knew that if it ever told the truth about how many animals it killed, donations would dry up, so it didn't ever publish true statistics. The SPCA's unlimited surrender policy is a business plan, not animal welfare. Unlimited surrender means that the SPCA has an unlimited supply of product (the SPCA's own word for animals) to sell. And what there is no market for, is killed. When there are too many cats, many cats are killed...still. The SPCA used to immediately kill boxes and bags of kittens and puppies when the market was saturated.

The unlimited surrender business was promoted as compassionate animal welfare and attracted the donations. Unlimited surrender meant that the SPCA was always full of a wide variety of product and a full "shelter" "proves" that you are compassionate and attracts donations from animal lovers. This, coupled with the dog control business, accounts for all of the SPCA's income. Animal welfare was the public product, but the SPCA did not practice any animal welfare. It didn't even sterilize its own product nor did it attempt to regulate breeding, in fact, it let its own staff breed and sell dogs and cats. The SPCA was the biggest player in the retail animal business and since all its product was free, it could afford to dispose of any bad product that got taken in with sellable product. It even trained its staff in cheap in-house disposal. It was a slick business operation with the media and the public completely gulled by its P.R. department.