Just to help understand all this: Animal control contracting (a euphemism for dog catcher) is divided into enforcement (picking up stray dogs, ticketing for off-leash, etc) and impound/disposal (holding stray dogs the required time and disposing of them). Some SPCAs in BC do both, some only do impound/disposal and the municipality does the enforcement component itself. The SPCA's recently announced that it does not want to do enforcement any longer but will keep impound/disposal.

Enforcement looses money and does not require killing, impound/disposal makes money (attracts donations) and requires killing. Self-contradictory statements from the SPCA's in-house spin doctor notwithstanding, the SPCA's announcement to keep the component of animal control contracts that requires it to kill animals that cannot be disposed of any other way, but to get out of the component that does not require it to kill animals, is very revealing in my opinion. It has chosen money/killing. It is keeping the lucrative, donation-attracting, killing component. Further - it is keeping unlimited surrender, also lucrative for the same reason and also requiring killing.