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LOL!!!!! Obviously not.

Damn. Seemed like I was so right, there, too. :2T:

 

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Ouch. Somebody post Old Yeller and/or Where the Red Fern Grows to complete this.

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If this doesn't make you cry then you have no soul.

 

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you know how it is; you click that link on another forum, you cant make sense of it, it's been discussed over there for more than 10 pages (from every angle, even the humans > animals one), you feel compelled to repost it regardless of the effect. for what it's worth, the black humor i put on the link itself only works in this thread.

ill change the name, but yeah, even if my rational side says there's stuff in my first post way worse than this, the gut-feeling is one of awful depression/rage, ill go make that more evident in the link.

 

ps she's basically been found, even PETA put out a reward for bringing her in. more info.

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horrendous woman throwing puppies to their death

please note, this video is going to upset you if you have a soul

 

My soul needs a band-aid after watching that...

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...ahh. Better.

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you know how it is; you click that link on another forum, you cant make sense of it, it's been discussed over there for more than 10 pages (from every angle, even the humans > animals one), you feel compelled to repost it regardless of the effect. for what it's worth, the black humor i put on the link itself only works in this thread.

ill change the name, but yeah, even if my rational side says there's stuff in my first post way worse than this, the gut-feeling is one of awful depression/rage, ill go make that more evident in the link.

 

ps she's basically been found, even PETA put out a reward for bringing her in. more info.

 

i just read that and was going to post. i hope she gets what she deserves.

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That is sad, but kind of endearing in a way. I mean, that guy didn't even have time to think, he just did it.

There was a desert racing thing in the western US this year where something similar happened. a crowd of spectators was too close (they would be safe if there hadn't been an accident, but when one happened, they were gonna get mowed over). A man saw a car coming their way and pushed his girlfriend, child and friend's child out of the way but didn't make it himself.

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dog-lovers; i was callous posting the puppy-throwing shit, i admit. this is horrifically upsetting, and i have no excuse.

 

At least 100 sled dogs killed, dumped in mass grave

 

The employee at a dog-sledding company now owned by Outdoor Adventures Whistler filed a WorkSafe BC claim for post-traumatic stress in May 2010 after shooting dozens of dogs to death.

 

"It's horrific," Marcie Moriarty, general manager for SPCA cruelty investigations, told ctvbc.ca.

 

"I've seen some pretty terrible things, but reading this [claim], I had to put it down at times."

 

The slaughter was conducted on April 21 and 23. In his claim, the worker wrote that he had killed 70 dogs, but the company corrected that number to 100.

The dogs were killed because of a "slow winter season" after the Winter Olympics, according to WorkSafe BC documents.

 

Whistler RCMP Staff Sgt. Steve LeClair said police are investigating the allegations, and criminal charges are possible, including cruelty to animals and injuring or endangering animals.

 

Outdoor Adventures says the cull was conducted by the manager of its subsidiary company Howling Dog Tours.

 

"It was our expectation that it was done in a proper, legal and humane manner. We only learned otherwise on Friday, January 28 when we read the WCB ruling for the first time," Outdoor Adventures said in a release.

 

The company says that it is also investigating the mass killing, and the employee no longer manages the dog business.

 

"This employee continues to get our support as he heals from his injuries and illness," the company said.

 

Outdoor Adventures has had a financial stake in Howling Dog for four years and took over complete control of the company in May 2010.

 

Gruesome details contained in claim

 

In WorkSafe BC documents, the worker describes chasing after a dog that survived a shot to the face: "Although she had the left side of her cheek blown off and her eye hanging out, he was unable to catch her."

 

Another apparently dead dog was dumped into the grave. "‘Nora,' who he had shot approximately 20 minutes before, was crawling around in the mass grave he had dug for the animals. He had to climb down into the grave amidst the 10 or so bodies already there and put her out of her misery."

 

According to the claim, the dogs panicked as they watched their compatriots being killed, and attacked the worker as he finished his job.

 

At one point during the slaughter, he ran out of ammunition and had to kill an aggressive dog with a knife.

 

"By that point he wanted nothing more than to stop the ‘nightmare' but he continued because he had been given a job to finish," according to the documents.

 

"He stated that he felt ‘numb.'"

 

The worker told WorkSafe BC he had worked for the company for years, lived on a farm with the dogs, "and had developed a strong emotional bond of mutual love and trust with them."

 

He said that he consulted a veterinarian after being told to get rid of 100 animals, but they refused to euthanize healthy dogs. He had previously killed, at most, four or five dogs at once.

 

Vet-supervised lethal injections would have been the humane way to cull the dogs, Moriarty said. "It is technically legal to shoot an animal, as long as it dies instantly. That most certainly did not happen in this instance."

Moriarty said the SPCA will have to dig up the mass grave to complete its investigation, which will include the possibility of criminal charges.

 

Ban on sled-dog tours?

 

The Vancouver Humane Society is now calling for a ban on sled-dog tours.

 

"The details of how these dogs were killed are absolutely shocking," VHS spokesman Peter Fricker said in a release.

 

"This is what happens when animals are exploited for profit and become surplus to requirements when business is bad."

 

Moriarty said the SPCA isn't impressed with most sled-dog businesses, either.

 

"I've had a huge problem with the sled-dogging industry for years," she said, adding that some dogs are tied up all day on short tethers, with little chance for exercise, rather than being taken out on tours.

 

"In B.C. we come across far more dogs in horrible conditions in the name of quote-unquote dog-sledding operations."

 

But she stopped short of calling for an all-out ban on dog-sledding tours.

 

"It's hard given stories like today for me to say this, but there are good sled-dogging operations out there. I have seen them," Moriarty said.

 

She added that the best businesses tend to have between 20 and 30 animals raised by a single family.

 

Changes at Outdoor Adventures

 

Outdoor Adventures says that since it took control of Howling Dogs, it has made "significant" changes to the business to ensure the humane treatment of its animals.

 

Those changes include giving away 75 dogs, neutering males and creating an open-pen kennel rather than tethering the dogs. Guns are no longer allowed on site and the company's new policy is that euthanasia must be performed at a veterinary office.

 

UGH i fuckin hate people sometimes.

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CALGARY - The distraught father of a five-year-old Calgary boy was able to be at his son’s bedside when he died, thanks to the city’s police chopper.

 

RCMP Sgt. Patrick Webb said the boy was with adult family members on the shore of Sylvan Lake in the Summer Village of Norglenwold, about 170 km northwest of Calgary, at 7 p.m. Monday when he went under that water.

 

“This resulted from a moment’s inattention — he was literally on the shore one moment, and a very short time later found floating,” Webb said.

 

The boy was pulled from the water and rushed hospital in Red Deer, where he later died.

 

While the child’s mother was nearby when the tragedy unfolded, his father was still in Calgary, but thanks to a rare move by city police’s HAWCS helicopter he was given the chance to see him alive one last time, and say goodbye.

 

“He was still alive — at that point in time we wanted to locate the father and get him there as soon as possible,” Webb said.

 

When RCMP called cops at 8:30 p.m., the plan was to notify the father and drive him to Red Deer where Mounties would pick him up and take him the rest of the way.

 

But since HAWCS was airborne and staff already doing patrols, the call was made to fly the father to Red Deer to cut travel time, said police spokesman Kevin Brookwell.

 

“I believe it was the right thing to do given the circumstances and the fact that we were already airborne and we had that resource available to us,” said Brookwell.

 

“What we did not want is a distraught father travelling northbound on Hwy. 2 at a high rate of speed, not really in the right mindset given the circumstances with the son.

 

“So I think this was a very prudent thing to do and a safe thing to do and the resource was there and we could get him to Red Deer as quickly as possible.”

 

Brookwell said it’s not uncommon for HAWCS to help with RCMP calls outside the city, but this was the first time since its operations began in 1995 the helicopter was used to transport a victim’s family out of Calgary.

 

Whether or not the decision will set a precedent is unclear and situations will continue to be treated on a case-by-case basis, said Brookwell.

 

“If it happened again, I think at the time we would look at the circumstances, the urgency, the request, and if it was operationally possible, given what was happening in the city, if the helicopter was airborne — all those factors we have to look at,” he said.

 

The operational cost of flying HAWCS is about $750 per hour, said Brookwell.

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