Who is this “expert”? What are their “credentials”? And is there a professional organization we can parade the corpse of their reputation before?
Comment by Rob McMillin — February 3, 2011 @ 1:44 am
Howling Dog Tours
How gruesomely prophetic……..
And yes, the SPCA is going to have it’s “pitbull moment”. Hopefully someone will “cull” employees from their ranks who don’t care about animals, from the bottom to the TOP.
Comment by CathyA — February 3, 2011 @ 2:44 am
Shelter … shelter … shelter … what is so difficult to understand about that? It’s not your job to help animals? It’s your job to condemn them wholesale because of circumstances of birth and housing?
I went to bed grieving and woke up furious.
The shelter industry needs to be cleaned from top to bottom, until attitudes like these are gone, gone, gone.
The man who did this deserves a jail term, not a workers comp check. The company who employed him deserves to go bankrupt. (And the whistleblower who leaked the docs deserves our gratitude for putting her/his job on the line.)
As for the shelter industry … no stronger case for reform could possibly be made. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty? Hell, they set the stage for it.
Comment by Gina Spadafori — February 3, 2011 @ 7:05 am
Let’s make sure the shelter industry understands that pit bulls and sled dogs deserve the same individual evaluations and effort to get placed that fuzzy little mop dogs do.
If the BC SPCA had even made the slightest damn effort, many if not most of these dogs would be alive now, as the Vick dogs are … and NONE of them would have suffered such a cruel fate as this mass slaughter.
Comment by Gina Spadafori — February 3, 2011 @ 7:36 am
The problem across this whole country is that the SPCA does not stand for what people think they stand for. They don’t help in many many cases and those that work in this system get very frustrated also :o(
Comment by Jeannie — February 3, 2011 @ 8:44 am
Thing is there are quite a number of smaller rescues in British Columbia and environs that would have been willing to help.
Comment by Jan — February 3, 2011 @ 8:57 am
I’ve left a voice message asking the BC SPCA’s community relations contact who the expert was.
Comment by Christie Keith — February 3, 2011 @ 9:59 am
If these had been 100 dogs reported in a hoarding situation, wouldn’t [the SPCA] have been right in there on the evening news, pulling dogs from deplorable conditions while soaking up all that fine publicity?
To say these dogs are not adoptable is an outrage and a cop-out. Sure, not all can be re-homed, but that is true regardless of the breed. My adopeted sled dog rescue was the calmest, most even-tempered, sweet, well-behaved dog I have ever been around. People commented about these traits all the time - my family called him the “buddha” because of his calm nature.
Everyone from the business to the employee to the SPCA is complicit in this heinous crime, regardless of all their excuses.
Comment by dina — February 3, 2011 @ 10:32 am
Agree 100%. The big loophole there is “unadoptable,” which, if you allow the BC SPCA to define it, would have included *all* of the sled dogs owned by OAW, not just the ones that were killed. Maybe one or two of them were also past their prime. It’s awfully vague.
Comment by Laura Sterner — February 3, 2011 @ 11:47 am
Disgusted by everyone involved in this senseless killing
Ms E Drever and Ms Moriarty should get off the TV and concentrate on what they were hired to do, help the animals
Spokespeople for Animals my ASS !
Where’s Donald Trump when you need him, “YOU’RE FIRED”
I am hopeful — tho’ I’m not sure why — that this incident will provoke a wider investigation of conditions and practices among dog tourers and racers. Maybe the BC SPCA could start its redemption by undertaking such an effort? They have a big bunch of redeeming to do.
Comment by Tom Cushing — February 3, 2011 @ 12:40 pm
One thing I have not heard discussed is the fact that the investigation into this matter is apparently being handled jointly between the RCMP and the BC SPCA. Given that there are accusations that the SPCA fell down on the job (and admitted they wouldn’t have rehomed the dogs anyway), why are they even part of this at all?
Comment by Rob McMillin — February 10, 2011 @ 11:47 am
Having the BCSPCA do the investigation is like letting an accessory to murder do the CSI work.
Comment by Indra — February 11, 2011 @ 10:33 am
I tell you: This is the ONE and only ONE good thing that came out of the Michael Vick situation (and Sick Vick gets NO CREDIT for it):
We now know that ALL dogs deserve to be considered as individuals, and that NO dog is “automatically” ineligible for rehoming because of breed, history or occupation.
Any “humane society” or “SPCA” that says otherwise should turn over their leadership to people who know better … and any veterinarian who thinks mass “killing” is “euthanasia” that needs to be defended and encouraged needs to be in another line of work.
http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2011/02/18/head-of-b-c-task-force/#comment-503746