100x more important than diddy being sued.

José · 02-01-2011, 11:09 AM

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An animal welfare group is investigating the execution of 100 healthy sled dogs in Vancouver, British Columbia, after tour business got slow following the Olympics, according to Canadian news reports.

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is investigating the animal cruelty allegations after a Howling Dog Tours general manager filed a claim with the provincial workers' compensation board saying he suffered post-traumatic stress after slaughtering the dogs in a two-day cull.

The claim says the dogs were killed in front of each other, causing them to panic and attack the worker, The Vancouver Sun reported.

“By the end, he was covered in blood,” the review board wrote January 25, confirming the worker’s claim. “When he finished, he cleared up the mess, filled in the mass grave and tried to bury the memories as deeply as he could.”

Attorney Corey Steinberg told Vancouver radio station CNKW that his client either shot or slashed the throats of the canines.

“It wasn’t always a clean, one-shot kill,” Steinberg said. “Inevitably, (the employee) ended up seeing and having to put the end to some horrific scenes.”

Marcy Moriarty of the British Columbia SPCA told the station she was most disturbed by the “description where he notes that one of the dogs he thought had been killed was crawling around in this mass grave. ... Honestly, I had to put down the story then.”

The employee, who was compensated for his claim and no longer manages Howling Dog, sought treatment for depression, panic attacks and nightmares five days after the killings, The Sun reported.

Steinberg told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. that his client tried to find adoptive homes for the animals, but when that failed, he and company executives agreed to euthanize the oldest and sickest dogs. The Sun, however, said the workers' compensation report claimed a veterinarian was contacted but refused to kill healthy animals.

“He just wanted the greatest happiness for the greatest number of dogs," Steinberg told CBC. "He had to choose: Do I keep 200 dogs and make their lives great, or do I stick here with the 300 that I have?”

Moriarty countered that “blowing off half of the dog’s head while it ran off” – as one of the executions was described in the worker’s compensation report – did not constitute euthanasia.

She further told The Sun she isn’t moved by the manager’s claim that he named the dogs and had “developed a strong emotional bond of mutual love.” She added, “I don’t feel sorry for this guy for one minute.”

“I’ve no doubt he has suffered post-traumatic stress, but there’s a thing called choice,” she said. “I absolutely would not have done this, and he could have said no.”

The Vancouver Olympics closed February 28, 2010, and Canadian Employment Law Today reported that the company decided to kill the dogs - reportedly a third of its kennels - when business dropped off.

Twitter users have homed their sights on Outdoor Adventures Whistler, which had a financial stake in the company but didn’t take operational control until May 2010, a month after the incident.

“#outdooradventures has the guts to shoot captive animals, do you?” read one.

Another said she “Is truly ashamed to live in #Vancouver because of these dog slaughterings taken place in #Whistler. I never want to go back there. Idiots.”

Outdoor Adventures, which also offers snowmobile, snowshoe and horseback excursion in Whistler, issued a statement saying it was aware of the “relocation and euthanization” of the Howling Dog animals but was “completely unaware of the details of the incident” before reading a report Sunday.

Spokesman Graham Aldcroft said in the statement that there are no longer firearms on the site, and in the future, sled dogs will be euthanized in a veterinarian’s office.

Tourism Whistler, which has marketed the company’s dog-sled tours for six years, told The Sun that it has suspended dog-sledding reservations for the company and is offering refunds to anyone who has booked a tour.

On Monday morning, Outdoor Adventures was still advertising dog-sled tours on its website, saying that its “lengthened tour means more time with the puppies.”

After mass dog slaughter, stressed man files workers' comp – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs

**Mafoo** · 02-01-2011, 11:25 AM

holy fuck. thats beyond fucked up.

SmokeaJoint · 02-01-2011, 11:25 AM

Thats fucking sick.

Snowmayne · 02-01-2011, 12:24 PM

da fuck, how do you follow those orders

**Home Wrecker** · 02-01-2011, 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Snowmayne

da fuck, how do you follow those orders

actually a really good point imo

Though I think the real question is how this impacts on the diddy lawsuit.

Grieves · 02-01-2011, 02:24 PM

I read about that, apparently it is okay to shoot any animal in Canada if the shot kills instantly....The fucked thing about this is that they didn't use guns, they slit the neck and threw them in a ditch....Way fucked up...and Way to not seek out homes for the dogs, or anywhere to donate them too...

vanilla · 02-01-2011, 02:51 PM

i think im gonna puke...

The Rev · 02-01-2011, 02:59 PM

A good example of how cruelty hurts everyone involved, victim and perpetrator alike.

(and reader)

The Rev

Cerpin Taxt · 02-01-2011, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Snowmayne

da fuck, how do you follow those orders

A classic psychological experiment by Stanley Milgrim which helps explain. He was interested in exploring how those people in the third reich were taking their orders, and didn't believe the notion that they were inherently evil.

YouTube - Milgram Experiment (Derren Brown)

"Before conducting the experiment, Milgram polled fourteen Yale University senior-year psychology majors to predict the behavior of 100 hypothetical teachers. All of the poll respondents believed that only a very small fraction of teachers (the range was from zero to 3 out of 100, with an average of 1.2) would be prepared to inflict the maximum voltage. Milgram also informally polled his colleagues and found that they, too, believed very few subjects would progress beyond a very strong shock.[1]

In Milgram's first set of experiments, 65 percent (26 of 40)[1] of experiment participants administered the experiment's final massive 450-volt shock, though many were very uncomfortable doing so; at some point, every participant paused and questioned the experiment, some said they would refund the money they were paid for participating in the experiment."

Also, this story is clearly a conspiracy involving Diddy. He holds considerable stock in Howling Dog and has plenty of connections which could have helped orchestrate this massacre in order to distract media attention.

Kompressor · 02-01-2011, 03:08 PM

The Rev · 02-01-2011, 04:45 PM

I wonder what Rorschach would have done, had he been there (and, of course, been a real person).

The Rev

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Grieves The Worst Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Interstate 8 Posts: 12,086 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 2,569 Thanked 3,115 Times in 1,710 Posts	I read about that, apparently it is okay to shoot any animal in Canada if the shot kills instantly....The fucked thing about this is that they didn't use guns, they slit the neck and threw them in a ditch....Way fucked up...and Way to not seek out homes for the dogs, or anywhere to donate them too... __________________ "And no matter what they said dollar is not your friend and it's the feelings that are hard to know are the feelings that all come slow No matter what they said dollar is not your friend and these feelings that so hard to know are the feelings that wont let go No don't let go, till you find a home World Unite and I'll love you forever"

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