The value of dogs, polar bears, seals and hookers

[JakeYYZ]

Missing furry friends, not missing women, is unmistakably the inquiry that people want.

http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_release ... 000094.htm

It took three years after the conviction of serial killer Robert Pickton for the government to call an inquiry into the botched police investigation that could have got him behind bars sooner, saving as many as 14 lives. It seems dogs, polar bears and seals are Canada’s sacred cow, above things like corruption, murder and human injustice...

[Beefitarian]

You may not have met a good hooker but everyone has met a great dog somewhere.

[JakeYYZ]

Spoken like a true PETA supporter.

[Beefitarian]

Yeah, you're on to me.

KD Lang.

[Pirate Pilot]

Unfortunately Jake, you are making a correct written statement but it will be lost as the media and the politicians have gripped onto a story that has a win\win from their viewpoint. From the media this is a heartrending horrible story that cannot be refuted by any comment of rebuttal or refusal of the facts....It was a horrible incident....it happened....not justification whatsoever.
For the politicians this event gave them some media time they would not have enjoyed otherwise. Can you imagine a member of the opposition criticising(sp?) the investigation of this incident?
For the record it was a terrible and horrific act against creatures that had made money for a company during an event and then were no longer needed. Excess inventory???? I realize that is very cold but I believe that is the crux of the story. The operators did not know how to dispose of excess labour\inventory after the fact.
The sled dog fraternity has disavowed this activity completely and rightfully so but it does raise the question...."has this happened before?" I am a dog owner and I am very disturbed about this whole episode so I asked a friend of mine who has lived in northern B.C. for many years. His reply...."you're a pilot, ask your northern bush pilot friends how many of the same dogs they see every year on every sled...they slow down, they get ornery, they don't behave....they're gone" I certainly don't agree with that but perhaps that is the culture????

[BigglesNBella]

I thought Campbell stepped down?

Forgive me... been out of the country for awhile.

[moocow]

Correction, he stepped down as leader of BC Liberals but not as BC Premier. He is more of less out of public view the day he said he was going to quit a few months back.

[Doc]

Imagine! Whacking 100 dogs. And, they weren't even pit bulls! Everyone involved in this should do jail time. It's disgusting.

[dashx]

I guess we can ignore the dogs whacked in other countries (Korea comes to mind....) after all its just food in some places.

If I remember correctly the issue in BC was poor aim and if I am not mistaken there are expert gopher killers out there somewhere that could have done a better job.

Sadly a bullet is cheaper than a needle.

[moocow]

Getting back to Jake's original post. Could it be possible that people are more upset at 100 dead dogs than 30 dead Native women is because people inherently believe humans have a sense of logic and the ability to choose while animals do not?

[dashx]

Yes. Yes they are.

[2R]

Did they ever publish the names of the restaurants that the Picton pig farm supplied with MEAT ???

[niss]

You may not have met a good hooker but everyone has met a great dog somewhere.

I have to pay a hooker to lick my nuts, a dog will do it just for the peanut butter.

But in all seriousness this is atrocious.

[Beefitarian]

Well don't tell Jake but I think the hookers should be considered more valuable than the dogs. It's just like everyone else I notice it's easier to feel sypathy for the dogs because of what I wrote there and the hookers in a perfect world would be able to make choices in life and have more control over where they end up.

The reality is much more likely that most of those women lived through more abuse from other people for years before being murdered than the dogs may have.

The dogs may have even had it pretty good until they over populated and started to starve. As terrible as it is to think of them being shot it might have actually been better for some of them overall. Still, none of what happened to the dogs was their choice and that seems to be the big difference for a lot of people.

I'm not against the concept of PETA it just seems a little wrong and strange there's no PETH.

[Sulako]

You know what's really messed up? The guy who shot all the sled dogs was a commercial pilot - I flew with him back in 1997, at Northern Dene Airways in northern Saskatchewan - he was assigned to one of the ski planes that winter. I'm not even kidding. I tracked him down a couple of years ago to see what he was up to, and he had gotten out of aviation and had started running a sled dog tour company. Today I see the news and see the guy's name and his picture, and it's the same guy. I don't even know how to process all that just yet, other than to say it's pretty screwed up.