This past week, a horrifying report was released by the British Columbia Worker’s Compensation Board in which the general manager of a sled dog tour company was claiming post traumatic stress after having brutally executed 100 sled dogs on April 21st & 23rd of this past year. He was ordered to do the killings by his employer and he shot the dogs one by one in front of the other terrified dogs waiting to be put down. Allegedly, dogs were still running around with 1/2 of their heads blown off and there was a dog, still alive after having been targeted, that desperately tried to crawl out of a mass grave where other murdered dogs lay. According to USA Today, the cull was ordered because of a “slow winter season.”
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Marcie Moriarty, head of the British Columbia SPCA cruelty investigations division, stated “There is a problem with the sled dog industry in general. People see these 20 sled dogs, an idyllic setting with snow in the background and think how great. But what they don’t see is the 200 dogs tethered and sleeping out back, chained to a barrel….What do they do when they don’t have the money to feed them all? When the dogs aren’t needed. The order to simply put them down is not acceptable.”
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WONDERFUL those dogs are SO CUTE