"Outdoor Adventures Whistler" is an outfit located near the well known recreational ski resort that recently hosted many events for the 2010 Olympic games. They provide the visitor with many options to go out and experience the outdoors from snowmobiling to horseback riding to sled dog tours. A local news station here in Vancouver has uncovered a mass execution of 100 sled dogs carried out sometime in April of 2010. Documents from Worksafe BC detail that the employee who carried out the slayings shot, stabbed and cut the throats of the dogs before disposing of them in a mass grave and some were still alive.
The employee who carried out the killings is now suffering from PTSD because of the horrific scenes that they inflicted. On the radio this morning a person from the SPCA said that the dogs had mounted a counter attack on that person in an attempt to try and save themselves. More details are in the story at the other end of the link below. My reaction to it is one of outrage, why didn't the employee say no? or why didn't they take the dogs, tie them up nearby and then go directly to police or the SPCA to report what they had been ordered to do? What kind of a sick mind could order something like this? What kind of character can the employee who carried this out have? This tour operator should be boycotted and shut down, this is another case of "beware the hand of man."
The new name for Outdoor Adventures Whistler should be Husky Auschwitz.
Extra Note: just heard on the radio, the police are now investigating the incident.
Link to the story (Beware, graphic content. ) - http://www.cknw.com/Channels/Reg/Ne.....spx?ID=1354856 (http://www.cknw.com/Channels/Reg/Ne.....spx?ID=1354856)
Don't be fooled by the glitz and glam of Whistler Resorts. The only classy people in that town don't bother staying very long, they're just there for vacationing. The real town residents are all redneck trash.
You got to remember that before start of the olympics Whistler was much smaller, and was comprised primarily of sports bars and tiny ski lodges.
100 Sled Dogs were slaughtered in Whistler after a tour company had a time of slow business, not euthanised...Slaughtered, either by shooting or slicing the throat
I've signed this petition to make sure this company see's justice.
I don't ask much of the community, but if you think this is as wrong as i do, you'll sign the bloody thing
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/pr.....100-sled-dogs/ (http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/pr.....100-sled-dogs/)
Cheers
~Tor~
Ah yes I read about this.
It enrages me that some moronic redneck is now collecting money for his psychological trauma after he failed to call spca and failed to humanely kill one hundred dogs.
Why is this employee not being brought to justice? He started to feel guilt only long after the suffering animals had all passed away - many did so slowly - in a mass grave. I believe 'he' should receive no compensation and that he ought to be charged along with his employer for this monstrous act.
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This link doesn't appear to be working, but the one on my FA is for whatever reason, lol
here's a link to my Journal
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2064184/ (http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2064184/)
I signed the petition.. can't believe that happened here of all places..
Link to the article: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20110131/bc-sled-dogs-killed-110131/ (http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20110131/bc-sled-dogs-killed-110131/)
Link to the petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/prosecute-for-the-senseless-slaughter-of-100-sled-dogs/ (http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/prosecute-for-the-senseless-slaughter-of-100-sled-dogs/)
it's pretty f***ed up...i would've adopted one if i had been given half the chance, as i'm sure many other people would have...
Stupid horrible mundanes :'( :'( :'(
unfortunately the legal process in BC doesn't accept online petitions (or at least it didn't last I checked) so I'm afraid thepetitionsite.com is of no help to your cause. :\
If you really want to see them get shut down, you'll actually have to canvass people, maybe set up a petition in a pet store or something, if it hasn't been done it already.
As for those poor dogs.. It really is a shame. I feel sorry for the guy who was ordered to do it. It only came to light because he went to WCB about it, the poor man. I'd suffer from more than PTSD if I'd been ordered to do that. Although, the dogs probably would've lived. It's the boss I'd be worried about. :roll:
It's disgusting enough that 100 of them were killed. Many, if not most/all, were killed inhumanely/improperly. The real outrage is that this was PREVENTABLE, had other actions been taken. He could have gone to the media and asked for help in finding them new homes. Odds are, he would have had that help by the end of the day. But no.
As for the guy who carried out the order, he could have refused. Hell, he could have even made an excuse citing WorkSafe BC regulations (safety hazards,health hazards, etc).
: EmoFox February 01, 2011, 11:36:18 -07:00
I feel sorry for the guy who was ordered to do it. It only came to light because he went to WCB about it, the poor man. I'd suffer from more than PTSD if I'd been ordered to do that. Although, the dogs probably would've lived. It's the boss I'd be worried about. :roll:
Fuck that shit.
He was a perfectly sane adult and was aware of what he was doing.
Personally I hope that he never forgets the guilt of what he's done, and I hope people will remember him for what he did for the rest of his life. He's getting off scott free. He doesn't deserve redemption at this point.
Really he should be charged right along side with his boss.
I agree that it was stupid of him to agree to do it in the first place, but in this economy I'm not terribly surprised that he tried to keep his job by not arguing. Following my general assumptions that most people are good people, and have good reasons for doing things like this, he must have been in a terrible TERRIBLE place to think that killing 100 dogs would be easier than losing his job.
Words can not do those dogs justice nor fully emphasize how disgusting and cruel people are. Signed.
This is beyond freaking disgusting
But throws up other questions...
What the hell was hung over the employees heads to actually do this?
Were they desperate for a job?
Bribed?
Threatend?
I hope those poor dogs find a nice little doggy house in the sky :(
And the people who did this go to a very very special place in hell
The horrors humanity will commit... for a dollar
From my understanding, there was only one employee responsible. Who claims that his boss told him to do it, the manager is denying the allegation that he told his worker to specifically "kill" the dogs. None of the other tour guides are taking responsibility, claiming that they were unaware what was happening at the time.
The link to the CTV news story has now been taken down, and shows a "404" error notice. No surprise there, really...silencing the media as usual. :evil:
WHAT possessed that company to kill the dogs??!!! WHY were they still operating even after previous concerns about the dogs' welfare??!!!
The economic thought patterns that cause crap like this REALLY have to be changed...
Link works fine. Take your conspiracy theories elsewhere.
What's happening right now is the other employees who had no part in slaughter are being harassed by self proclaimed AR activists. I'm sure nobody is trying to silence the media, the press likely think this story has been out for long enough given the violent reaction of the public.
Well shit. That's fucked up. :-\
Well, I am speechless on the act itself... but to answer your question on what kind of employee would carry out such orders... any employee in this day and age who's options are "listen to my bat-shit manager and still make enough money to eat" or "do the right thing and be respected yet be jobless in the tightest working market to date in my lifetime with no sympathy"
Sounds cold and I know money should never come before life, but frankly that's my guess, if they went all post traumatic stress after the fact then its a good bet they were pressured/shoved into this as some sorta "if you don't do this your fired" deal.
(yes I am Jaded towards BC's job market)
okay..might as well toss in my two cents ( sorry i didnt read any other replies if i sound redundant)
first and foremost: they fucked up whistler's, and subsiquently vancouver's tourist economy. The whole world now hears of whistler and thinks of dog massacres.
They should have rented and borrowed dogs from alaska and up north, and returned them come spring.
Now to play devil's advocate:
Sled dogs ARE routenely culled all over the north, as the dogs are viewed as livestock, and not pets despite the fact they are dogs, and not routine livestock animals. The ididarod is under alot of scrutiny as more often than not, several dogs each run are pushed to the point of keeling over from exhaustion. The company states they did try and rehome the pets, and then tried to hire a vetrinarian to euthanise the dogs, but the vet refused. As for the employee, there have been psychological studies showing how easy it is to pressure/persuade a normal human being into carrying out cruel and tortureous orders onto other beings. And sadly in this economy, people will get desperate if they think this is what is needed to keep thier family fed.
But the fact is that they very shoddily executed a HUGE number of perfectly healthy animals that had worked very hard for them, one after another in plain sight of each other. They made someone who was not skilled in humanely dispatching these animals do the work, and the animals panicked and suffered. In this day and age there are groups who take retired greyhounds who would be culled off the tracks, and condition them into family homes. The company could have reached to the media to find homes for the dogs, rather than look around a little bit, and give up early. But instead they did what they did, and now the whole community is going to suffer. I myself just got out of a situation where animals are merely seen as disposable attractions, and this just does not sit well with me -.-
This is why we can't have nice things.
Like many people have said, I would have totally adopted.. =(
I can't believe it...I loved to gawk at those dogs every time they came when I was at lunch brake from school ( I go to Whistler Secondary) but why ???
i just got home and picked up the paper, and it said that there were over 500 dog owners down at the Kelowna waterfront to sign a petition yesterday about what happened. i wish i had known!
The BC Supreme Court ordered WorkSafe to hand over documents pertaining to the slaughter, which they did, with the exception of the health files of the accused. HOPEFULLY, that will shed a lot of light on what went on.