If one looks at BC SPCA policies and practices over the last fifty years, as AAS has, a clear picture of a pest control business emerges. Whether the pest animals are unwanted pets or wild urban pest animals, the SPCA has controlled their populations by killing them. It successfully claimed that this was animal welfare and got millions of dollars in donations a year.

It used the cheapest methods of killing for decades, such as electrothanators and gas boxes, until the bad P.R. reached levels where donations were, or could be, impacted. Only then did it stop. This has been demonstrated many times over the last two decades.

Extreme levels of bad P.R. is why the SPCA cancelled its crab-boiling fundraiser. At first it tried to justify it, but an internet petition, newspapers, radio, and the Sea Shepherd Society ramped up the P.R. Only then was the live crab-boil cancelled.

In a letter from the BC SPCA to the City of Richmond, urging the City to continue its contract with the BC SPCA, this statement is made: "Transfer of surplus Richmond animals to other SPCA shelters, thereby avoiding the euthanasia of animals for reasons of space."

Killing animals for reasons of space cannot ever honestly be called "euthanasia".

Killing animals for reasons of space is not animal welfare, it is the killing of animals that have not sold, or are unlikely to be sold.