Below is the email I got.. (Lucy) only has a couple days if anyone can help, please contact Hazel at the Maple Ridge SPCA ASAP

"We have a dog in the Maple Ridge shelter who really needs a foster ASAP.
'Lucy' is a Lab/Retriever, Shep mix maybe 6 years old but she has an extreme
case of seperation anxiety - she is gentle (we have a blind girl and her
walker who often walk her), she is OK with other dogs and cats, she usually ignores them, but she hates to be out of sight of a person. She has been brought back to the shelter twice, the second time from a very good foster, when the foster had to leave the house for a couple of hours Lucy escaped out of a crate and got out of the house and was waiting at the front door.
Lucy needs a very experienced person who can be with Lucy most of the time.
She is also on medications for an ear infection. If you have a foster that
you think may be suitable could you let me know ASAP. I am afraid that she only has a couple of days as she is so very stressed at the shelter and it is unkind to keep her there. I have attached a picture of her.
Thanks."

Urban Lions

Animal Advocates was told that generally if a dog is not doing well in its SPCA cell, volunteers are given a brief time, maybe only 24 hours, to find a foster home. It is extremely difficult to find foster homes for anything but perfect little dogs, and too often the volunteers only just begin their frantic search when they discover the dog has been killed. In the case of Lucy, there was more dismay than usual as she was a friendly dog and no one really thought the SPCA would kill her.

If AAS had known about Lucy, we would have offered to foster her. We have had many successes with dogs with far greater separation anxiety than Lucy had. But the BC SPCA will not accept our offers to foster, preferring to kill the dog as it tried to do with Cheech. Separation anxiety is an easily-treated condition which usually clears up in a few months. Separation anxiety is no more an excuse to kill dogs than upper respiratory syndrome is an excuse to kill cats.

Killing Lucy can't be justified on the grounds that seem to be being used, that she was unhappy in her SPCA cell. If unhappiness is a valid reason to kill, what reason isn't? It is especially telling that the unhappiness is inflicted by the SPCA's cells and then used to justify killing the unhappy dog.

Not by any stretch can this be called animal welfare.