From: ASPCA.org
"On February 5, Queens, NY, resident Cherie Fillmore was arrested and charged with one count of misdemeanor animal cruelty. The 32-year-old is accused of starving her Pit Bull pup to death.
The initial investigation began on January 14, after concerned neighbors reported seeing a lifeless dog outside a South Jamaica home. ASPCA Special Investigator Paul Romano responded to the scene, where he discovered the severely emaciated dog tethered to a four pound chain—he determined the animal to be deceased.
When questioned, Fillmore, who works part-time in the medical field, admitted to having owned the dog. Special Investigator Romano transported the dog to ASPCA Bergh Memorial Animal Hospital, where a necropsy determined dog had died of starvation.
“The necropsy found raw garbage in the dog’s stomach,” says Joseph Pentangelo, Assistant Director of ASPCA Humane Law Enforcement. “He was rooting around, forced to eat whatever he could trying to stay alive.”
Fillmore is due back in court on February 22. She faces up to one year in jail if convicted.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Updated - BC,Canada - Sled Dog Killings
From: Montreal Gazette
"As the firestorm around the post-Olympic slaughter of 100 dogs in Whistler grows, Premier Gordon Campbell appointed a task force "to prevent such an incident from occurring again."
Late Wednesday, Campbell announced the appointment of Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Dr. Terry Lake to lead the task force, to investigate circumstances related to the incident.
"The tragic and disturbing details that have emerged around how these dogs were inhumanely treated are not acceptable to British Columbians or to their government," Campbell said in a release.
"No creature should ever have to suffer in the manner that has been reported, and we want to ensure that nothing like this ever happens again in our province."
The task force, which will include the B.C. SPCA, will seek to establish a timeline of facts in the case and "will be completed within 45 days, forwarded to the minister of agriculture for review."
Meanwhile, the man allegedly at the centre of the gruesome massacre has already laid out his version of events online.
Internet posts by dogsled tour worker Bob Fawcett suggest corporate orders were behind the dog killings -and they were done haphazardly as the business was under threat of folding.
Fawcett -the man who was compensated by WorkSafe B.C. for debilitating effects from the "execution-style" slaughter of the dogs while working for Outdoor Adventures -outlines in the post his version of the business reasons that led to the killings.
On the other hand, Outdoor Adventures says it knew about "the potential euthanization of the dogs," but expected it would be done in a legal and humane way. Owner Joey Houssian has not responded to repeated interview requests.
On an online forum for soldiers who suffer post-traumatic stress, Fawcett claimed on Jan. 6, 2011: "I have owned a large dogsled company for the last 15 years. As the economy turned, we were forced to sell to a corporation two years ago. They did nothing but complain about costs and were not willing to sell some of the herd because they wanted all the animals on deck 'in case' it was busy. We had 330 dogs."
Fawcett claims that in April 2010: "I was told the company was going to fold unless we took drastic action . . . immediate disposal of half the herd . . .
"I reluctantly agreed to the job . . . I was told I had two days to get the job done due to a large tour group we had coming."
Fawcett claims he and a manager set off in a truck to complete the killings at the bottom of a road "so no one could come up and [I] gave him a radio in case I shot myself."
"I then set about the direct execution of 60 of my friends on Day 1. Some I missed, had to chase around with blood everywhere, some I had to slit their throats because it was the only way to keep them calm in my arms," Fawcett claimed. "I had one still alive in a pit I dug for a mass burial . . . Day 2 was no different."
A joint RCMP and SPCA investigation is under way into the deaths.
Meanwhile, B.C. SPCA's head animal-cruelty investigator, Marcie Moriarty, said Wednesday she's "livid" over reports that the SPCA "rebuffed" requests in 2010 to help adopt out Outdoor Adventures' dogs. Moriarty said the first meeting with Fawcett took place May 28 -long after the killings happened.
"Bob [Fawcett] . . . indicated during that meeting they had reduced numbers of the herd. We had no idea of [the mass killings] before," Moriarty said.
Moriarty said SPCA constables inspected about 150 of Outdoor Adventures' dogs Tuesday, but found no health concerns, and no warrants to protectively seize herd dogs were filed."
"As the firestorm around the post-Olympic slaughter of 100 dogs in Whistler grows, Premier Gordon Campbell appointed a task force "to prevent such an incident from occurring again."
Late Wednesday, Campbell announced the appointment of Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Dr. Terry Lake to lead the task force, to investigate circumstances related to the incident.
"The tragic and disturbing details that have emerged around how these dogs were inhumanely treated are not acceptable to British Columbians or to their government," Campbell said in a release.
"No creature should ever have to suffer in the manner that has been reported, and we want to ensure that nothing like this ever happens again in our province."
The task force, which will include the B.C. SPCA, will seek to establish a timeline of facts in the case and "will be completed within 45 days, forwarded to the minister of agriculture for review."
Meanwhile, the man allegedly at the centre of the gruesome massacre has already laid out his version of events online.
Internet posts by dogsled tour worker Bob Fawcett suggest corporate orders were behind the dog killings -and they were done haphazardly as the business was under threat of folding.
Fawcett -the man who was compensated by WorkSafe B.C. for debilitating effects from the "execution-style" slaughter of the dogs while working for Outdoor Adventures -outlines in the post his version of the business reasons that led to the killings.
On the other hand, Outdoor Adventures says it knew about "the potential euthanization of the dogs," but expected it would be done in a legal and humane way. Owner Joey Houssian has not responded to repeated interview requests.
On an online forum for soldiers who suffer post-traumatic stress, Fawcett claimed on Jan. 6, 2011: "I have owned a large dogsled company for the last 15 years. As the economy turned, we were forced to sell to a corporation two years ago. They did nothing but complain about costs and were not willing to sell some of the herd because they wanted all the animals on deck 'in case' it was busy. We had 330 dogs."
Fawcett claims that in April 2010: "I was told the company was going to fold unless we took drastic action . . . immediate disposal of half the herd . . .
"I reluctantly agreed to the job . . . I was told I had two days to get the job done due to a large tour group we had coming."
Fawcett claims he and a manager set off in a truck to complete the killings at the bottom of a road "so no one could come up and [I] gave him a radio in case I shot myself."
"I then set about the direct execution of 60 of my friends on Day 1. Some I missed, had to chase around with blood everywhere, some I had to slit their throats because it was the only way to keep them calm in my arms," Fawcett claimed. "I had one still alive in a pit I dug for a mass burial . . . Day 2 was no different."
A joint RCMP and SPCA investigation is under way into the deaths.
Meanwhile, B.C. SPCA's head animal-cruelty investigator, Marcie Moriarty, said Wednesday she's "livid" over reports that the SPCA "rebuffed" requests in 2010 to help adopt out Outdoor Adventures' dogs. Moriarty said the first meeting with Fawcett took place May 28 -long after the killings happened.
"Bob [Fawcett] . . . indicated during that meeting they had reduced numbers of the herd. We had no idea of [the mass killings] before," Moriarty said.
Moriarty said SPCA constables inspected about 150 of Outdoor Adventures' dogs Tuesday, but found no health concerns, and no warrants to protectively seize herd dogs were filed."
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