The SF SPCA will not take dogs that do not pass a temperament test because it refuses to be the executioner of dogs that people have ruined and are then looking for a cheap and/or guilt-free way to get rid of their problem.

Saying " We won't keep your dangerous dog in a cell and then kill it when no one will adopt it, you will have to take it to a pound that makes no bones about what it does with dangerous dogs or take it to a vet and pay to do the deed yourself", is the only moral thing to do. No animal WELFARE society should be killing the ruined and unwanted cheaply and behind closed doors. Refusing to do so is the first step toward a society that has to pass laws to stop the breeding and ruin of dangerous dogs.

For centuries authorities simply killed dangerous or unwanted dogs. Then so-called "humane societies" got into the business too. Dogs were, and are, easy to get and easy to get rid of, so there has never been an impetus to not get/ruin/dump a dog. Only in the last decade have people who understood how wrong this is begun to "reform" their societies. (We can only hope the BC SPCA at last understands this too.)

So yes, AAS supports the SF SPCA's policy which is based on honesty about what is wrong and a refusal to participate in it and is the only hope to stop the evil we all abhor.