Posted by: jneighbors on: February 4, 2011
So I havent blogged in a really long time. But after hearing about this for the last few days I felt like a blog would help get the thoughts in my head out into the open.
Not only because I am an owner of two dogs, but because I love any animal and belive they should be treated with fairness and respect. This story gave me goose bumps, How could 100 dogs be killed just because they were too much money to keep. It’s a horrible, horrible event that occurred and I hope that the company pays for their actions.
Now for the individual who was told to commit this disgusting act, I know it would be easy to say he should pay for everything that he did and he should have stopped it and so forth, and I was one of those people, untill yesterday when I tuned into the popular radio station “the beat” 94.5fm. and while listening to the Kid Carson show where they discus a lot of topics, this being one of them, Kid had a very valid point. That under authority people tend to do what they are told. Now Id like to belive that if I where to ever be in a situation such as this (which heaven forbid I ever am) that I would tell my boss to F! off and try my hardest to stop the situation from ever happening, but you never know how you would react in a situation till your actually in it. Now I am defiantly not defending this individual for what he did, not at all but before anyone can say he should pay or suffer for what he did you need to put your self in his shoes.
If someone in authority told you to do something wouldn’t you listen? If your teacher told you to stay after class, wouldn’t you? there are many situations where if another individual had power over you, you just do what your told. Now of course in this situation things occurred that shouldnt have and 100 innocent dogs lives were taken in horrific ways. I hope that this type of incident never happens again and the right actions are taken to prevent this situation and the right actions are taken to make the company and any other individuals realize that this was the worst possible situation they caused.
WHISTLER — A man who shot 100 sled dogs complained to WorkSafeBC B.C. that he suffered post traumatic stress after the slaughter and was granted compensation.
The news has horrified dog lovers and led to a joint criminal investigation by the RCMP and B.C. SPCA.
“Shocking doesn’t begin to describe what happened to these poor dogs,” said an emotional Marcie Moriarty, B.C. SPCA’s manager of animal-cruelty investigations on Monday.
“I don’t want to use the term euthanize because the man describes it as execution-style killings.”
A WorkSafe B.C. report dealing with the compensation, details the gruesome scenes on April 21 and 23, 2010, when the worker euthanized 100 dogs over two days. The size of the cull meant he had to kill the dogs in full view of the rest of the pack, leading to a bloody frenzy of wounded, frightened and angry dogs.
The dogs were buried in a mass grave.
One dog, Nora, was found crawling around in the mass grave 20 minutes after he had dumped her body into the pit. Others were chased, shot cleanly or died after their throats were slit. The employee, according to the report, was “covered in blood” when finished.
According to the report, on April 21, the man wounded one dog — Suzy, the mother of his family’s pet dog — who managed to run away despite having the left side of its cheek blown off and an eye hanging from its socket. A rifle with a scope was used to kill her from a distance; that bullet passed through her and seriously wounded Poker, a dog that wasn’t slated to be euthanized. It was later killed.
On April 23, one dog, who had part of its head blown off, attacked him after he ran out of ammunition. He killed the dog with a knife, slitting its throat while it was on top of him.
The report said the man, who had named and raised many of the dogs, has “continued to deteriorate mentally and emotionally” since the incident.
While not named in the WorkSafe B.C. documents, the man has been identified as Robert T. Fawcett, listed in corporate papers as a director of Howling Dog Tours Whistler Ltd.
In a Dec. 27, 2010, posting on a website forum for trauma sufferers, a Whistler resident named Bob Fawcett, an award-winning dogsledder, wrote: “I’ve had a pretty horrible ordeal and actually figure I may be able to be a good sounding board for others … and it has pretty much destroyed my soul.”
Outdoor Adventures at Whistler said in a release that it has had a “financial interest” in Howling Dogs Tour Whistler Inc., which has “operational control of the dogsledding operations,” for four years.
In the statement issued Monday, Outdoor Adventures said: “OAW was aware of the relocation and euthanization of dogs at Howling Dogs in April 2010, but it was our expectation that it was done in a proper, legal and humane manner.”
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