I want to take a second to walk away from all my self help mumbo jumbo, and discuss something that I am really saddened by, which of course, lots of people are talking about.
My hometown - well, I have a few. One that stays in my heart, is Whistler, B.C. or rather, the whole sea-to-sky. In recent days, there has been a scandal unfolding - The senseless killing of 100 sled dogs. The story is, they were culled because it wasn't worth it to keep feeding them with the downturn after the Olympics. Now.. There are so many websites that are reporting on this. Personal websites, news websites, it makes me sick, and its glorifying the issue, giving it focus, and attention. Yes, we should be aware of the senselessness of the issue. Yes, it's important to know that this happened.
No, its not making a "stand" to have a website dedicated to "boycotting Whistler". This is an AMAZING town. I have spent so much of my life in it to know that this is a town that is dedicated to people and their pets! This is a town with an amazing dog shelter, where everyone knows what a "Mount Currie Special" is, and knows that its an amazing breed of dog; one thats loyal and loving, that will care for and play with your children, that everyone will be drawn to, asking "what kind of dog is that?". This is not a TOWN wide issue, this is a company wide issue.
The company that is involved, is being penalized. The police and the SPCA are involved. People ARE doing something about this. What needs to be done is being done.
Leave the dramatics behind. I know many people who own businesses there. Many people whose lives revolve around those people coming to visit that town. That town, is, everything that the Olympics portrayed it to be.
We need to stand together as people who love our province, our towns, our country. We need to let people know that this isn't something that our town, if it is, if it was your town, stand up, and let it be known what a wonderful town this is.
Beautiful British Columbia.
My hometown - well, I have a few. One that stays in my heart, is Whistler, B.C. or rather, the whole sea-to-sky. In recent days, there has been a scandal unfolding - The senseless killing of 100 sled dogs. The story is, they were culled because it wasn't worth it to keep feeding them with the downturn after the Olympics. Now.. There are so many websites that are reporting on this. Personal websites, news websites, it makes me sick, and its glorifying the issue, giving it focus, and attention. Yes, we should be aware of the senselessness of the issue. Yes, it's important to know that this happened.
No, its not making a "stand" to have a website dedicated to "boycotting Whistler". This is an AMAZING town. I have spent so much of my life in it to know that this is a town that is dedicated to people and their pets! This is a town with an amazing dog shelter, where everyone knows what a "Mount Currie Special" is, and knows that its an amazing breed of dog; one thats loyal and loving, that will care for and play with your children, that everyone will be drawn to, asking "what kind of dog is that?". This is not a TOWN wide issue, this is a company wide issue.
The company that is involved, is being penalized. The police and the SPCA are involved. People ARE doing something about this. What needs to be done is being done.
Leave the dramatics behind. I know many people who own businesses there. Many people whose lives revolve around those people coming to visit that town. That town, is, everything that the Olympics portrayed it to be.
We need to stand together as people who love our province, our towns, our country. We need to let people know that this isn't something that our town, if it is, if it was your town, stand up, and let it be known what a wonderful town this is.
Beautiful British Columbia.
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