About 150 dogs still call the kennel home. When they’re not on the dog sled tour, the racing huskies bide their time play-fighting, barking at unfamiliar faces and chewing their doghouses. Some of the dogs at the kennel have long since retired. The kennel has been unable to find homes for them because of their age, so they remain at the facility, frolicking with the other animals.

AAS COMMENT

Naive reporters are helping to silence the dogs's cries. How could the dogs frolick when they are chained to their dog houses? Why would staff allow the dogs to play unless a reporter were watching? Stressed dogs fight and injured dogs can't earn money, in fact cost money, if only the price of a bullet.

AAS has seen chewed dog house for fifteen years and we know it means suffering, anxiety, frustration, extreme boredom, depression and anger. The SPCA sees it far oftener than AAS does, yet it still tells owners of chained dogs to get a longer chain.

The SPCA left those poor dogs in those cruel conditions, some of them emaciated, some of them sick. It knew, for at least ten years, that these dogs were being treated with great cruelty, and yet it hushed it up by not seizing, over and over. They died horribly because of the SPCA's choices.

The SPCA has seized for far less cruelty many times, but those owners weren't connected to the powerful in business and tourism and government.

The SPCA didn't speak for those dogs; in fact, as it has historically, it helped to silence them.