Business is down for a dog sled tour company. So the bosses decide to kill 100 of their 300 dogs. (After supposedly trying to place them). And since they (supposedly) couldn’t get a vet to properly and humanely euthanize healthy animals (something which would be sad and sucky but not beyond belief or cause for hysteria), they gave the job to the general manager to do.
The general manager accepted the instruction and carried it out.
Personally.
Over two days.
Using a gun.
And a knife.
In front of the other dogs.
While they panicked, tried to flee, and attacked him.
Following his literally blood-drenched task, during which he found he lacked the skill to successfully kill every dog on the first attempt, the Dog Slaughterer filed a worker’s comp claim for the PTSD I absolutely believe he’s suffering from.
Let’s hope that the depression, panic attacks, and nightmares help him grow a pair so the next time someone tells him to spend a couple of days slaughtering dogs his balls are sufficiently developed for him to apply himself to finding more humane alternatives, and if he can’t, tell his bosses to do it themselves.
Jesus fucking christ.
(And fuck his bosses, of course. I don’t believe for TEN FUCKING SECONDS that they made a good faith effort to find homes for those dogs and failed to find homes for a single one. BULLSHIT.)
There is a special place in doggy hell for these people. I have no sympathy for any human involved in this. I look forward to the day when intelligent animals are given the respect/rights they deserve. Mass murderers get treated better than this in prison.
I think I’m more pissed off at the bosses at the moment. The general manager sounds like he’s already in a special doggy hell, and deservedly so. The bosses, on the other hand, get off without having to literally get their hands dirty. May the ghosts of a hundred sled dogs haunt their dreams.
Destroying chattel that you own isn’t illegal, nor should it be.
Sorry if that comes across as harsh, but it’s reality. The criminality here is only whether they were abusive towards the animals when killing them.
In this case, though, it seems pretty clear that the process was needlessly cruel. In some cases, the dogs appear to have been shot while attempting to flee, or tossed into a mass grave while still alive.
Nightmarish stuff. I’m not a dog person, but you’d have to be a monster not to be horrified by this. Poor doggies.
Exactly what rights do you wish them to have, other than the right not to be treated in a cruel or inhumane manner, which they already possess under law? The right to vote? The right to free speech? I’m honestly puzzled as to what rights you mean.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not exactly peachy keen about the whole thing. It is sad and it was unnecessary.
But that’s a huge step to get to criminal behavior. And i’m not sure how you demonstrate that the owners, who gave the order to kill the animals, told their employer to be needlessly cruel about it.
(incidentally, I don’t think that killing a fleeing animal is cruel or abusive)
This has been on the news here the last few days, and I’m totally enraged by this. I hope that this situation helps to increase fines and jail time for people who neglect or abuse animals.
The problem isn’t with the culling of 100 dogs, sad as it may be. It’s the manner with which it was undertaken. I can’t bear to read the documents and am sticking to the watered-down news reports for now.
This guy should have quit and gone to the media. There are hundreds of rescue organizations in North America that would have taken these dogs if they would have looked. Incidentally, I work for a rescue organization in Calgary, and none of the rescues here heard from this outfit about looking for homes for these dogs. I’d bet they didn’t look much at all.
This was a Dog Sled TOUR company? Seriously? They didn’t realize that once word got out that they KILL DOGS that maybe, just maybe people would not want to patronize their company?
What are they going to do now, kill the other 200?
Or was that their nefarious plan? “Come see our tour or we’ll shoot this dog.”
Isn’t “killing an animal that is fleeing” the same as “hunting” ?
There was a story in today’s Vancouver Sun reporting that they had contacted the BC SPCA and portraying the latter in a rather bad light: story here. To be clear, I’m not condoning the killing or condemning the SPCA, just commenting on the tone of the linked article.
The dogs were bred and raised specifically for the Winter 2010 Olympics. Once the tourists were gone, they didn’t want to keep that many dogs. I’ve been reading many articles on this, and all of them quote the owners of the company saying that they didn’t care about the daily operations, and that they just had a financial stake in it.
I know people like to point their fingers and assign blame when things like this happen, but I don’t think it’s just the worker who screwed up.
Whose bright idea was it to get 300 dogs for a specific one time event, and didn’t think ahead about what might happen to them once said event was over?
Why didn’t any alert any animal shelters that there were 100 dogs that they couldn’t keep? Whistler doesn’t have a local SPCA, but there is a humane society there. Even if they didn’t have the resources, they could alert the BCSPCA.
Oh, and the vet screwed up too. I understand that he had a policy of not euthanizing healthy animals, but when he was approached, why didn’t he alert the authorities that he was approached to mass murder some dogs?
The whole situation is so stupid when you think about how things could have been done differently, but some people out there really don’t value animals as living creatures, but just another tool to line their own damn fat cat pockets. Yet another agonizing aftermath of the Winter 2010 Olympics…
