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VANCOUVER, British Columbia – The 100 dogs were shot dead over two days after an expected post-Olympics boon in dogsledding business at an adventure company didn't pan out. Most died instantly, but others suffered — like the one that ran away with its "face blown off and an eye hanging out."
The gruesome event was described in documents awarding compensation to a worker, who claimed post-traumatic stress disorder for having to shoot the dogs after bookings dropped sharply for a tour operator following the 2010 Winter Olympics.
"He had to chase her down and finish her off," Marcie Moriarty, general manager of cruelty investigations for the B.C. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said of the wounded down that was run down and slain.
Moriarty said the slaughter left her sickened and said it is the worst investigation she's ever done. Both the British Columbia SPCA and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are investigating the slaughter.
Moriarty said all the other dogs would have seen the incident in which the one dog did not die instantly from the single gunshot to the head and ran away from the worker.
"There aren't words to really describe some of the ways these dogs died," she said. "We don't put cows down like that. Slaughterhouses have very strict rules for how supposed culling takes place. This violated every one of them."
An employee of Outdoor Adventures Whistler was awarded compensation in a ruling by WorkSafe BC, the provincial body that manages workers' compensation claims. Outdoor Adventures did not contest the man's compensation claims.
The WorkSafe documents are confidential, but Moriarty has read them as part of the society's investigation.
Moriarty said it is likely the individual who will be facing charges and not the company.
"Obviously we would like to lay charges as soon as possible," she said. "We are looking at the particular individual. Whether the company is liable, I don't know. Morally, yes."
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/ki ... s/4206360/story.htmlso in short, man killed 100 dogs because his company was not doing well.
now before pointing fingers, supposedly the man did try to find the dogs home. however, the SPCA said they could not take them because they could not be adopted.
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The Vancouver Sun has learned the 38-year-old employee of Outdoor Adventures who killed 100 sled dogs in Whistler approached the BC SPCA on two separate occasions asking for its help in finding adoptive homes for some of the company’s dogs.
Both times he was rebuffed.
Officials at the animal protection agency said they didn’t realize the dogs would be brutally slaughtered. But they said they told the man the dogs would not make good pets and were not adoptable.
Senior animal protection officer Eileen Drever confirmed she was contacted last spring by the man, but can’t recall if it was in April or May. The cull happened on April 21 and April 23, 2010.
She said she first learned of the cull last Friday when a WorkSafeBC report providing details of the “execution-style” killings of the sled dogs became public. The report said they were destroyed for economic reasons.
“What happened last spring is [the employee who did the cull] contacted me and complained about some of the conditions of the dogs and I was supposed to go up there and check.”
“I spoke to the owner Joey Houssian and he provided me with a copy of the veterinarian’s report.”
She said she was satisfied with the vet’s report and did not feel it was necessary to go to Whistler and do an on-site inspection herself.
“[The employee] didn’t advise me he was going to kill any dogs. He was looking to find homes. I spoke to an animal behaviourist who is also a vet and she spoke with an expert in the [United] States who said [the sled dogs] weren’t adoptable,” said Drever.
Asked if she told the man the SPCA would not help place the dogs last spring she answered, “I believe so.”
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http://www.vancouversun.com/business/ki ... y.html#ixzz1CsoQD8NuAlthough i would say that if he did give them away, they would have probably been euthanize anyway. watch as PETA goes nutz.
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