Lessons from a sled dog massacre
By Christie Keith, Special to SF Gate

Christie Keith: "But there's something else that troubles me about this story and its aftermath. That's the way that Fawcett's local animal shelter, the British Columbia SPCA, has been talking about sled dogs -- not just the dogs who were killed by Fawcett, but all sled dogs.

"B.C. SPCA head of animal cruelty Marcie Moriarty told the Vancouver Sun that, even if Fawcett had told her he was going to kill the dogs and asked for the organization's help in finding another solution, the dogs would probably still have been put to death by the SPCA.

"If that attitude seems hard to understand given that the organization is a "society for the prevention of cruelty to animals," try wrapping your brain around their reason turning their backs on these dogs."

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