SLED DOGS AND THE BC SPCA

When [name removed] was an BC SPCA agent from 1997 to 2000 she covered the Pemberton area, Mount Currie and Whistler. She had a complaint where 73 sled dogs belong to Howling Dogs Sled Dogs company were being kept in crates on the back of two trucks. The crates were only suppose to be used for transport to and from snow sledding jobs, but were being used to keep the dogs in, rather than in proper, permanent kennels. Not all got out every day except for their one meal. Those that were used to pull a sled were out from about 10 to 11 am and are done about 3 to 4 pm. Some crates had two to three dogs in them. When she went to investigate she was alarmed at the condition these dogs were being kept in and was told by the owner/operator that the dogs only got water once a day in their food. This was not only alarming but contrary to all the SPCA's own kennel standards. Also that dogs are to be given water and food daily. All the dogs were way under weight as you can see by the photos. She still has the pictures and the newspaper clippings of this complaint that the SPCA swept under the carpet as fast as they could. She quit her unpaid volunteer job as an agent for the SPCA because she refused to work with an organization that does not do what they tell people they are suppose to be doing.

All the photos are SPCA photos

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See also:
sleddogs/howling-dogs.htm
sleddogs/seymour.php
sleddogs/spca-gawthorn.php
sleddogs/salmo.php
www.sleddogwatchdog.com