Moriarty said she’s “glad a light is finally being shed on this industry. I just shudder whenever I see the ads for sled dog tours because I know how the majority of dogs are living. There are a few good operations but on a smaller scale.”
Moriarty knows how the majority of sled dogs are living. Then why didn't Eileen Drever (who I'm sure also knows how the majority of sled dogs are living) even go up to investigate the Whistler dogs, when asked - in the spring of 2010, before the killings?
What was Ms. Drever doing that was more important? Since when can situations like this be dealt with over the phone? She went up to Whistler after the killings.
But according to The Vancouver Sun, Fawcett did call the B.C. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at some point, to describe the condition of his animals. A B.C. SPCA animal protection officer admitted that she had spoken with him. "What happened last spring is [Mr. Fawcett] contacted me and complained about some of the conditions of the dogs and I was supposed to go up there and check," senior animal protection officer Eileen Drever told the Sun.
Ms. Drever did not travel to Whistler. This might seem like a missed opportunity for someone ostensibly in the business of protecting animals. "[Mr. Fawcett] didn't advise me he was going to kill any dogs," she explained to the Sun. "He was going to find homes."
The Sun story angered Ms. Drever's boss, B.C. SPCA executive director Craig Daniell. He fired off his own news release Wednesday. "It is deeply distressing to our organization that anyone would imply we had knowledge of, or could have prevented, the devastating killings carried out by Outdoor Adventures Whistler," it read.
Why is Craig Daniell so angry at the media, and not angry with his employee (Drever) who admits that she was supposed to go to Whistler to check on the conditions of the dogs, and did not go?
How can a task force which includes the SPCA look into this matter? The SPCA is just too busy pointing fingers away from themselves.