STILL. HERE. (From LeeAnn Baker)
Why am I still here?
When I have willed death to come?
And yet when I open my eyes,
No change has been done.
I'm still stuck in this place,
in unending days,
the darkness surrounds me,
envelopes and stays.
This metal tether,
attached to my soul,
only grows colder,
only weighs more.
Why am I here?
Stuck in this bleakness so long?
That one person who came,
disappeared, just is gone.
I know the snow will bring people,
for me to pull for a while.
Then I'm back to this world,
this remote, lonely isle.
LeeAnn Baker
During this holiday season, think about all the dogs warehoused outside on uninhabited land for the sole purpose of pulling tourists.
All Industrial Dog Sled Kennels across North America warehouse their dogs for LIFE OUTSIDE in all weather, chained to a barrel or wooden box or caged.
Ontario is among them. Many people don't know this, as the operators meet their clients in a park, far from the dog yard.
Don't go dog sledding and don't let your child's school take them either.
This practice of chaining is overwhelmingly prevalent in the DOG SLEDDING INDUSTRY and supported by
MUSH WITH PRIDE, an antiquated organization based in Alaska who influence our Canadian laws when it comes to the treatment of Sled Dogs and who ignore all current science proving chaining is wrong.
An organization who's former Vice President, Bob Fawcett, was the man that slaughtered all the B.C. Olympic Sled Dogs, after the tourists went home and the money dried up.
The Canadian Veterinary Association and the World Sled Dog Association denounce chaining. Educate yourself on the reality of this industry at http://sleddogsfilm.com
Toronto has a 1 hour limit on chaining. Tell your MPP, ALL Ontario dogs deserve that, with no EXEMPTIONS, as is done, for :
"Sled dogs" or "Working dogs" or "Hunting dogs", just because these Kennels have "labeled" them as such.
Find your MPP here-https://www.ola.org/en/members/current…
Please email both Premier Ford as well as the Solicitor General Sylvia Jones and express your disgust with how they can allow this to go on.
animalwelfareservices@ontario.ca; MCSCS.Feedback@ontario.ca, MCSCS.Customer.Service.Complaints@ontario.ca; doug.fordco@pc.ola.org, sylvia.jones@ontario.ca
All these Industrial Dog Sledding Kennels are the same throughout Canada, the States, the Yukon, NW Territories and Alaska.
Here is a list of Animal Abusing and Chaining and caging Sled Dog Kennels in Canada:
Howling Dog Tours, Escapade Eskimo, Sky High Wilderness Ranch, Algonquin Dog Sled Adventures, ChocPaw Expeditions, (Now closed but the perfect example of how this industry operates with it's pit full of shot dogs), Boreal Journeys, North Ridge Ranch, Windrift Adventures(Now under investigation after having over 200 dogs removed for neglect and not abiding by the meager laws in place) , Snow Forest Adventures, Suger Dogs, booked through "Travelling Chicken" on Trip Advior, Turning Heads, Rob Roy Snow Farm Dogs, Snowy Owl Sled Dog Tours, Cold Fire Creek Dog Sledding, Spirit of the North (Now closed and charged with animal abuse and deaths), Boss Dogs Expeditions, Wapusk Adventures, Muktuk Adventures Kennels in Whitehorse, Adventure Plein Air Inukshuk, Les Chiens de Traineaux, Kinadapt Kennels, Abitibi Dog Tours, Mad Dogs and Englishmen Expeditions, Miortuk Kennels, Blackcomb Snowmobile, Shaytaan Siberians, , Mountain Man Dog Sled Adventures, Haliburton Forest Dog Sled Tours, Evasion Nordik, Timberland Tours, Adrenaline Dog Tours, Adventure Source, Sun Peaks Resort, Revelstoke Dogsled Adventures, to name a few.
.#Humane Mushing
#K-9 Unchain Canada
#K-9 Unchain USA
#End the Dog Sledding Industry
#ontariomushers #mushwithpride #musherlife #animalwelfare #theresnoexcuseforanimalabuse