標題: Death threats against sled dog company employees [打印本頁] 作者: tiffiant 時間: 2011-2-3 19:22 標題: Death threats against sled dog company employees
Death threats against sled dog company employees
Police say some people are going way too far
News1130 Staff Feb 03, 2011 17:30:51 PM
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - The Mounties say employees at Outdoor Adventures Whistler continue to receive death threats because of the outrage over the cruel culling of one hundred sled dogs last year.
Police say the employees had absolutely no involvement in that awful incident, and want to remind people that no one has the right to make threats, no matter how much anger they might be feeling.
The threats, some of which are said to be very graphic, were made face-to-face, over the phone and through social media and have caused significant trauma and stress for the employees.
Police say uttering death threats is a criminal offence that can result in jail time.
Sled dog treatment
Meanwhile, the BC SPCA says animal cruelty laws treat regular dogs and sled dogs differently, and that needs to change.
Marcie Moriarty with the BC SPCA tells City TV they first received complaints about the company Howling Dog Tours five years ago. "The conditions in which we found those dogs in required 65 orders being given at that time, and remarkably they complied with all 65 orders."
Moriarty says under the legislation, sled dogs are allowed to be kept on seven foot chains and regular dogs aren't作者: tiffiant 時間: 2011-2-3 19:22
