100 Sled Dogs killed in Whistler so a travel company can save a few dollars

[jacey]

This via Annie Scarborough via facebook. The horrendous details of this sled dog slaughter only came to light when the company employee who did the deed with a gun and a knife (after vets in the area had refused to euthanise 100 healthy dogs for the sake of expediency) applied for mental health counseling for PTSD.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/restlessnativeblog/2014094348_chilling_tale_emerges_of_whistler_sled-dog_slaughter.html

Of course, you've got to wonder why he didn't refuse to do it.

Whistler is a town that lives and dies on its tourist trade. I sure hope this company is hounded out of business. (Pun not quite intentional, because a smile is the last thing this news brings to my face.) They still have 200 sled dogs.

Hopefully this will turn into a criminal prosecution. If it doesn't, it should.

Comments

[ferlonda.livejournal.com]

It is a good sized cull- but not unusual at all. How about the 100s of 1000s of pigs buried alive recently in, I believe, China? Could be wrong about that... Then there's the pig farm in the midwest that was abandoned when the couple who owned it divorced and left thousands of pigs to starve to death. I could go on and on but I won't. I'm not sure that volume of deaths really matters, frankly. It's horrible but only in scale. Even one death like this is one too many for me.

I'm glad these dogs' deaths not only made the news but are getting the attention they deserve. A little after the fact but if it helps to raise awareness of over-breeding and the callous behavior of humans toward animals of all species, including ourselves, it will at least be good in that way.