Culled sled dogs to be exhumed this week
Posted May 1, 2011 1:49 pm.
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WHISTLER (NEWS1130) – The BC SPCA has officially announced plans to dig up the remains of one hundred sled dogs following a mass cull near Whistler last year.
Work will get underway this Thursday. It will take three or four days to recover all the animals from the secured grave.
Marcie Moriarty with the BC SPCA says the investigation will cost over $225,000, but it’s a necessary expense. “We must take clear action in a case of this magnitude and brutality. We owe it to the one hundred sled dogs that are buried in that mass grave to ensure that this type of tragedy is never repeated in British Columbia.”
She admits this is going to be a difficult case for the investigators, “It’s an exceptionally emotional case, and I can’t even begin to imagine the emotion that is going to occur on that site when those dogs are unearthed.”
Moriarty says they want to show other groups that use animals for profit they must treat those animals with respect and dignity.
Some of the forensic experts involved in the case have worked on other high-profile investigations, such as the Robert Pickton, Steven Truscott and Green River serial murder cases. The key thing crews will be looking for is whether any animals suffered during the cull, before they died.
The BC SPCA will be updating the media throughout the investigation, but will not release any footage of the excavation out of respect of the animals.
