After reading some of these negative reviews I had...

After reading some of these negative reviews I had to post with my own experiences with this organization. I worked for the Sacramento SPCA for a time so know what it looks like from the OTHER side of desk. First of all, the SPCA does not euthanize adoptable animals. They've had dogs there for over a year before they were adopted but so long as they were healthy and not dangerous, they were lovingly cared for by the staff and the host of volunteers.

The staff is overworked and underpaid, but do their jobs for the love of animals. The job is VERY overwhelming sometimes. You work like an insane person all day, the phone messages pile up, and then you see posts online about how you don't care. Many of the staff literally take their work home with them, fostering animals until they're ready for adoption. At this minute there's probably an SPCA employee or volunteer hand-feeding an abandoned kitten.

And the hardest job of all is euthanizing animals. The people who do that job need counseling because it's so devastating emotionally. But if nobody was willing to do it, Sacramento would have sick or dangerous dogs either wandering the streets, or piling up in shelters until there is no room for healthy, adoptable dogs.

I feel bad for people who've had bad experiences, but every organization has an occasional bad employee -- or a good one having a bad day. Before working there I interacted with the organization as a client many times and always had very good experiences. Luckily that's the case for most people.