When the BCSPCA met with the Tour Operator on May 28/10 did this meeting include looking at the dogs? If this had been done then maybe they would have noticed that 100 were missing. Then the question would have been where are the rest of the dogs? Then this siutation could have been dealt with in 2010 not left until Jan. 2011.
If the courts rule that the BCSPCA cannot have access to Work-Safe B.C. information that Bob Fawcett filed, what will they do then?
Will they dig the dogs up, and do necropsies on them? They would have to wait until the Spring of this year, as the pit where the bodies are is frozen and covered with snow.
To have to rely on someone's Work-Safe B.C. report for information on dog cruelty seems to smack of incompetency. What would have happened if Bob Fawcett had not filed a claim....then no one would have known of the slaughter? How many other slaughters of sled-dogs are happening in the province? What is the BCSPCA's plan to prevent this from happening again?
This business, Howling Dogs, was given too many chances, from what I have seen. And in the end it was the dogs that paid the ultimate price, which was their lives. The fact that if the SPCA had done what its donors feel assured by the SPCA's P.R. it does, that this could have been prevented, is the most heart-breaking aspect of this crime.