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Sled dogs killed after Whistler Winter Olympics exhumed
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Fifty-two sled dogs who were killed after the 2010 Winter Olympics have been exhumed from a mass grave outside a Whistler ski resort. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals expects to find the bodies of up to 100 dogs at the site. The bodies are being dug up to search for evidence that could back up criminal charges.
...Source and more info: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/sled-dogs-mass-grave-exhumed-to-learn-how-they-died/article2014599/
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

Can somebody explain to me the mentality of a person who kills 70 dogs just coz his supervisor told him to?
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ALQ wrote:
Can somebody explain to me the mentality of a person who kills 70 dogs just coz his supervisor told him to?


There's millions of animals killed in abattoirs every month - there's plenty of people who kill more animals than that every day. In some parts of the world there's 70 dogs get killed in a day for food.

Is it because they are fluffy little angels, man's best friend and all that?

In the UK, if it is done humanely (without causing undue suffering), you can kill an animal. There was a recent case with greyhounds being killed because they were no longer fit enough to race. Unfortunately for the authorities, they discovered that the method used (putting a bullet through the skull) was as humane as any other, and are now pursuing the guy who was doing it on some other technicality.
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I do, however, object to the manner in which he did some of this - stabbing a dog to death is a very different thing to humanely killing it.
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ALQ, there was a huge thread about this when it happened. remember these are working animals not pets and like Monium says, the big issue was the botched cull not the actual killings
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kevindonkleywood wrote:
like Monium says, the big issue was the botched cull not the actual killings


I think the big issue was breeding dogs just to make a quick buck out of them at the Olympics then shooting them.
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the big issue was breeding dogs just to make a quick buck out of them at the Olympics

but as Monium says, animals are bred for commercial purposes all over the world, then killed. In this case, they served their purpose before they were killed, not after as with animals bred for food. There's no other difference if viewed objectively. A lot of people think of animals like children - they aren't.

But of course i agree that they have to be kept and killed humanely, and i don't think that happened here.
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