On page 6 of the City's report:

"The BC SPCA also takes in unwanted exotic/wild animals. From July 2005 to July 2006, the BC SPCA received 27 abandoned exotic pets from Vancouver alone; mostly reptiles, birds and insects where nearly half of these animals had to be euthanized due to lack of space."

First: The City report-writers are wrong when they call killing for space "euthanasia".

Second: The argument over whether killing healthy animals for to make room for more animals is ever ethical for a "humane society" to do has been going on under the radar of the average person for many decades. But at last, this horror and disgrace is being dragged out of the dark closet it has been operating in for so long by the trial of the PETA employees who are using the argument that the killing they did is a form of animal welfare. (The trial begins here: http://animaladvocates.com/cgi-bin/newsroom.pl/read/15188)

Third: The BC SPCA announced a moratorium on killing for space in March 2002. The announcement was hailed with front page stories in the press and from that point on the average person in BC believed that the BC SPCA is no-kill. (To this day AAS is still told by animal lovers that the SPCA is no-kill.) But any agency with unlimited surrender must kill for space (the math is very simple) and the subsequent the announcement in May that there were still plenty of reasons the SPCA had to kill animals other than to make space did nothing to correct the misconception that the BC SPCA is no-kill.

Yet this admission in the City of Vancouver's report is not the first admission that the SPCA accepts animals that there is a high likelihood they will kill.

We believe that the SPCA kills fewer animals every year, but that is due in large part to the quickly growing alternative animal welfare network that takes old, sick, or unsellable animals out of SPCAs as fast as they can and who take on unwanted animals to prevent them from getting into an SPCA in the first place. AAS alone is asked several times a day to take an unwanted pet - so that the owner won't have to take it to an SPCA!