Maple Ridge volunteer proves the SPCA's stats are false

Posted By: AAS
Date: Friday, 4 June 2004, at 5:22 a.m.

In Response To: Oh look! AAS has found the SPCA's missing euthanasia stats! (AAS)

EUTHANASIA STATISTICS - HOW MANY ANIMALS HAS THE SPCA REALLY KILLED?

Volunteers have known for many years that SPCA euthanasia figures are inaccurate. The proof of this is in it's own wildly fluctuating published figures. Insiders know that whole boxes of kittens come over the counter and out the back in plastic bags without being entered in the records. Even some dogs and pups don't make it into the log, to say nothing of the hundreds of little animals. And where are the SPCA's records on number of raccoons killed for pest control companies for a fee? (Read more, http://www.animaladvocates.com/spca-trigger-happy.htm)

The housecleaning at the Vancouver SPCA by the euthanasia of six dogs in 2002, is just one example of how the SPCA is trying to cover up how much killing it does for no reason other than the dead animals weren't sellable and were taking up room that could be filled by other, more sellable animals.
(Read more, http://www.animaladvocates.com/spca-six-dogs.htm)

From Maple Ridge SPCA volunteer and SPCA Pet Squad member Brigitta MacMillan (read more on the SPCA by Brigitta, http://www.animaladvocates.com/brigitta.htm): The SPCA's own figures (below from an interview in the Maple Ridge News with Maple Ridge SPCA manager Rick Favelle) make liars of them:

4 of 1,850 dogs had to be put down for lack of space in the past two years. (From Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows News, Jan 30/02.)
56 dogs were put down for lack of space in the last couple of years. (Maple Ridge SPCA web site).
10 dogs a year due to lack of space 5 years ago . (Newspaper quote of SPCA Maple Ridge Manager Rick Favelle)
48 dogs a year euthanized 5 years (Maple Ridge web site stats.)
1 cat was put down for lack of space in 2000. (Newspaper quote of SPCA Maple Ridge Manager Rick Favelle)
106 cats were put down for lack of space in 2000. (Maple Ridge SPCA web site).
Re: The Sun, BC SPCA to cut shelter destructions, will euthanize only for health reasons - March 6/02
The SPCA admits to destroying 18,000 animals yearly across all 32 branches. The article reports that in the ten Lower Mainland branches 173 animals were destroyed for lack of space in 2000. But in Maple Ridge alone, 162 cats and dogs were destroyed for lack of space in 2000 and this shelter has an exemplary Pet Squad saving most of the cats since late 1999.

Brigitta MacMillan,
Maple Ridge