Jim. Many thanks for posting this. Just found this latest report (below). There is also a petition circulating to bring pressure on the Canadian Gov’t to prevent this happening again, http://www.thepetitionsite.com/80/help-stop-the-senseless-slaughter-of-healthy-sled-dogs-in-bc/
I am rather surprised that there was’nt more of a protest from the UK, since we profess to be such a nation of dog lovers…
Dated 2012
VANCOUVER – Criminal charges have been laid in connection with the gruesome slaying of dozens of sled dogs in British Columbia in 2010.
Bob Fawcett, the former general manager of the howling Dog Tours, based in Whistler, B.C., has been charged with animal cruelty.
Details of a mass killing of the animals were made public last year after Fawcett filed worker’s compensation claim saying he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. In the claim, Fawcett outlined in detail how he was ordered to kill the sled dogs after business slowed following the 2010 Olympic Games.
Fawcett described shooting the dogs and slitting their throats before dumping them in a mass grave. He claimed some of the dogs were still alive and bloodied as they tried to dig themselves out.
Last May, investigators with the BC Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, exhumed the bodies of 54 dogs.
“The incident drew international outrage, but at the time of the investigation some members of the public didn’t understand why we had to go through the extensive process of exhuming the bodies when Bob Fawcett had already described his actions,” said Marcie Moriarty, general manager of cruelty investigations for the BC SPCA. “In order to move forward with criminal charges in the case, we had to produce clear evidence linking an individual to the crime as well as physical proof that the animals suffered unnecessarily.”
Fawcett is scheduled to be in court to face the charge next month
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