If you like dogs (or any animal for that matter), don't read this...

[Particle Man]

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/01...s-comp/?hpt=T2

An animal welfare group is investigating the execution of 100 healthy sled dogs in Vancouver, British Columbia, after tour business got slow following the Olympics, according to Canadian news reports.

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is investigating the animal cruelty allegations after a Howling Dog Tours general manager filed a claim with the provincial workers' compensation board saying he suffered post-traumatic stress after slaughtering the dogs in a two-day cull.

The claim says the dogs were killed in front of each other, causing them to panic and attack the worker, The Vancouver Sun reported.

“By the end, he was covered in blood,” the review board wrote January 25, confirming the worker’s claim. “When he finished, he cleared up the mess, filled in the mass grave and tried to bury the memories as deeply as he could.”

Attorney Corey Steinberg told Vancouver radio station CNKW that his client either shot or slashed the throats of the canines.

“It wasn’t always a clean, one-shot kill,” Steinberg said. “Inevitably, (the employee) ended up seeing and having to put the end to some horrific scenes.”

Marcy Moriarty of the British Columbia SPCA told the station she was most disturbed by the “description where he notes that one of the dogs he thought had been killed was crawling around in this mass grave. ... Honestly, I had to put down the story then.”

The employee, who was compensated for his claim and no longer manages Howling Dog, sought treatment for depression, panic attacks and nightmares five days after the killings, The Sun reported.

Steinberg told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. that his client tried to find adoptive homes for the animals, but when that failed, he and company executives agreed to euthanize the oldest and sickest dogs. The Sun, however, said the workers' compensation report claimed a veterinarian was contacted but refused to kill healthy animals.

“He just wanted the greatest happiness for the greatest number of dogs," Steinberg told CBC. "He had to choose: Do I keep 200 dogs and make their lives great, or do I stick here with the 300 that I have?”

Moriarty countered that “blowing off half of the dog’s head while it ran off” – as one of the executions was described in the worker’s compensation report – did not constitute euthanasia.

She further told The Sun she isn’t moved by the manager’s claim that he named the dogs and had “developed a strong emotional bond of mutual love.” She added, “I don’t feel sorry for this guy for one minute.”

“I’ve no doubt he has suffered post-traumatic stress, but there’s a thing called choice,” she said. “I absolutely would not have done this, and he could have said no.”

The Vancouver Olympics closed February 28, 2010, and Canadian Employment Law Today reported that the company decided to kill the dogs - reportedly a third of its kennels - when business dropped off.

Twitter users have homed their sights on Outdoor Adventures Whistler, which had a financial stake in the company but didn’t take operational control until May 2010, a month after the incident.

“#outdooradventures has the guts to shoot captive animals, do you?” read one.

Another said she “Is truly ashamed to live in Vancouver because of these dog slaughterings taken place in Whistler. I never want to go back there. Idiots.”

Outdoor Adventures, which also offers snowmobile, snowshoe and horseback excursion in Whistler, issued a statement saying it was aware of the “relocation and euthanization” of the Howling Dog animals but was “completely unaware of the details of the incident” before reading a report Sunday.

Spokesman Graham Aldcroft said in the statement that there are no longer firearms on the site, and in the future, sled dogs will be euthanized in a veterinarian’s office.

Tourism Whistler, which has marketed the company’s dog-sled tours for six years, told The Sun that it has suspended dog-sledding reservations for the company and is offering refunds to anyone who has booked a tour.

On Monday morning, Outdoor Adventures was still advertising dog-sled tours on its website, saying that its “lengthened tour means more time with the puppies.”

I bolded the section I feel applies. The guy could have just said no.

[Trip]

Not everyone thinks clearly when how they feed themselves is endangered. Looks like he tried to go about it the right way, just failed spectacularily.

[Kaneman]

Originally Posted by Trip

Not everyone thinks clearly when how they feed themselves is endangered. Looks like he tried to go about it the right way, just failed spectacularily.

"looks like he tried to go about it the right way"

Anyway, yea, this guy was totally just doing his job. Its ok to do pretty much anything as long as someone who gives you money told you to.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Kaneman

"looks like he tried to go about it the right way"

Anyway, yea, this guy was totally just doing his job. Its ok to do pretty much anything as long as someone who gives you money told you to.

I mean he tried to give away or have a vet take care of the dogs. He tried to go about it the right way in the beginning and then went into the spectacular fail.

He wasn't going out and murdering people. He was destroying animals. I know how some of you like to pretend your pets are people, but they are nothing more than cows or chickens. Ever think about how we treat them before we buy them in our grocery store freezer. No meat eater can ever claim shit about cruelty to animals being brutal when it is simply destroying an animal. It's clear he tried to take care of them quickly, but was just really ineffective in that process.

I've shot deer and had it die slowly, OMG, I am a cruel son of a bitch. Then I ate that mother fuckin deer and it was tasty. I'd kill a 100 of them too, mother fuckers are pests.

[Kaneman]

Originally Posted by Trip

I mean he tried to give away or have a vet take care of the dogs. He tried to go about it the right way in the beginning and then went into the spectacular fail.

He wasn't going out and murdering people. He was destroying animals. I know how some of you like to pretend your pets are people, but they are nothing more than cows or chickens. Ever think about how we treat them before we buy them in our grocery store freezer. No meat eater can ever claim shit about cruelty to animals being brutal when it is simply destroying an animal. It's clear he tried to take care of them quickly, but was just really ineffective in that process.

I've shot deer and had it die slowly, OMG, I am a cruel son of a bitch. Then I ate that mother fuckin deer and it was tasty. I'd kill a 100 of them too, mother fuckers are pests.

I don't own any cows or chickens.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Kaneman

I don't own any cows or chickens.

you eat them, that's endorsing the killing of them. Hell you are financing it.

These weren't "pets", they were work animals. No different than a four legged steak.

[pauldun170]

Originally Posted by Kaneman

I don't own any cows or chickens.

I co-own some cows, chickens and pork.
Me and a bunch of other folks get together and purchase a share of whatever looks good. We store those shares in the freezer.

[Triple]

Originally Posted by Trip

IHe wasn't going out and murdering people. He was destroying animals. I know how some of you like to pretend your pets are people, but they are nothing more than cows or chickens.

Killing 100 cows and pushing them into a mass grave would warrant execution as well.

We kill cows and chickens for food. It's unfortunate how most of them are treated prior to slaughter, but their purpose from birth to death is to provide meat.

At least his remorse is giving him nightmares and depression. With any luck, he'll eventually commit suicide, and perhaps kill his boss on his way out.

[Particle Man]

Originally Posted by Triple

Killing 100 cows and pushing them into a mass grave would warrant execution as well.

We kill cows and chickens for food. It's unfortunate how most of them are treated prior to slaughter, but their purpose from birth to death is to provide meat.

My thoughts as well.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Triple

Killing 100 cows and pushing them into a mass grave would warrant execution as well.

We kill cows and chickens for food. It's unfortunate how most of them are treated prior to slaughter, but their purpose from birth to death is to provide meat.

At least his remorse is giving him nightmares and depression. With any luck, he'll eventually commit suicide, and perhaps kill his boss on his way out.

I don't hunt and fish for food all the time. I have killed without using the animal for food. I also have destroyed pest animals/non-natives.

Killing a ton of cows and not using them for food has been done before and not thought of any differently. Disease made them not suitable to eat, so they destroyed the animals to keep the disease from spreading. These dogs were causing an economic drain on the company and they could not get rid of them by any other means, so they had them destroyed.

Killing nonhumans never warrants execution.