In April 2010, a hundred healthy sled dogs were slaughtered in a town called Whistler in British Columbia, Canada. This happened in a company that specializes in giving its clients an unforgettable ride on a sled pulled by 8 dogs through the remote and beautiful wilderness of Southern British Columbia.

According to the company that was responsible for the deaths, business was considerably down after the very successful Winter Olympics, and there were a hundred spare dogs that could not be cared for. So management decided to cull them.

What has brought world-wide attention to this story which happened nine months ago, is the way in which the dogs were brutally massacred. The lucky ones were shot with a single bullet to the head. The unlucky ones had their throats slit, others had to endure a long and painful death.

All the dogs were piled up into a mass grave and buried. many of the dogs were dtill alive when they were thrown into the mass grave. World public opinion leans towards the fact that the dogs should have been euthanized by a vet, instead of suffering such a horrible death.

The local SPCA officer, Marcie Moriarty commented on the brutal ways in which the dogs suffered: “I won’t use the term euthanized, [which] implies a humane death, and I can say that based on his description, at least a number of dogs did not have a humane death. His descriptions of using a shotgun, blowing off half of the dog’s head while it ran off, a dog crawling out of a mass grave, it just made me shudder,” Moriarty said.

Meanwhile the local police and SPCA are continuing their investigations into this most heinous crime.