Nearly 50 dogs from China were in Great Falls on Wednesday as they waited to go to a rescue facility in Canada. The dogs are currently being housed at Happy Tails Lodge.
They were flown from China to Los Angeles, California, and then driven to the Canadian border to cross into Canada.
But when they got to the border no vet was available to check them out, so the organization transporting the dogs asked Happy Tails to take the dogs in temporarily. […]
The dogs are not available for adoption here; they are contractually obligated to be delivered to the agency in Canada. Duncan did not know the name of the Canadian facility.
Most of the dogs appear to be strays or stolen pets.
Must a tribe in Montana that eats dogs. Problem solved.
I mean when Lewis and Clark went west 200 years ago dog was on the menu with a lot of tribes.
The Blackfoot, or Blackfeet as they are known south of the border are close. The Cree are also close by Great Falls.
Builder Barbie must be really hungry…..
I emailed my MP – McKenna (sigh) – about this issue. Pointless…
Good grief we are a nation of fools.
What did it cost to transport 50 dogs from China and who paid for it?
Thousands upon thousands of “feminists” with no man or no children in their pathetic lives.
Ouch! Sometimes the truth is a painful thing to hear. No wonder the leftists are attempting to control … Miss-information
I’m sorry, but people who go to other countries–especially those over oceans–to “rescue” dogs need their heads examined. And I say this with a relative-by-marriage who dragged her husband into it. They travel to some very nice places to do this, so I wonder how much of this effort is to justify or feel less guilty about travelling. Regardless, it’s dumb. Stick to charity work closer to home.
It’s not charity work. It’s a scam.
Stick to charity scams closer to home.
Undoubtedly, but knowing my relatives, they are well-intentioned at some level. As TheTooner says above, they can assuage their presumed guilt/virtue-signalling within Canada. Or even Calgary. Going abroad to “rescue” dogs is insane. It’s in the same vein as our governments shipping so much money to fix foreign shitholes, when our own still needs so much work.
And they couldn’t make room for at least one Uyghur child.
Ouch! But in all honesty … Uyghur children should be airlifted to Yemen
Here’s a thought.
Because it’s okay to declare to be anything you want let’s get some asylum seekers out of communist countries by having them self identify as beagles.
There are enough stray doggies to go around on any Native reserve in Canada. We don’t need imports, especially from Chinah.
Just drive NW an hour or so of Great Falls to Browning, the reservation town of the Blackfoot and you will see them.
I drove through there once, from the Canadian side and then east into Browning. Years ago. The US border guys warned us about it. Not any different from the Blackfoot on the CDN side. There’s a big reserve just 5 km west of me in Calgary, Tsuut’ina Nation 145. The new COSTCO is located on the reserve. Occasionally they 5 finger discount at the SOBEY’S nearby. Watched one of their “ancestors” (a little Chinese guy) kick some them out of the store and swipe back the groceries they’d swiped. Hilarious to watch.
It’s a beautiful sunny morn and I feel connected with creation.
Dogs have feelings and I’m happy the dogs won’t be boiled alive.
As for the apparatchiks & sycophants, they can go curl up and die.
Note to China dog Wranglers … when raising dogs for meat … choose larger breeds.
I agree with you JS. A lot of mean-minded conservatives on this thread, and that’s fine. But one can want to help rescue dogs without supporting radical animal rights groups like PETA.
My wife and I imported a Jack Russell/Gorgi terrier mix, Jack, from Florida, from a US private, non-charity group, “Hearts of the North, Inc.” We worked through a related volunteer non-profit, Hearts of the North New Brunswick”, to get Jack into the province. In a few months the pandemic hit, and Jack has been great for us during the times in isolation. Jack came to us reasonably trained, kennel trained and house trained. The dog rescue groups involved have been very professional, as to getting the animals vaccinated properly, checking the owners’ suitability, and so forth. There was no need for a vet to check Jack at the border.
Can’t see that getting a rescue dog from outside Canada is all that bad.
Until you find out they also import incurable canine brucellosis (Mexico > Alberta), novel forms of Asian distemper or a new variant of canine influenza.
https://www.pethealthnetwork.com/news-blogs/a-vets-life/chicagos-mystery-dog-virus-outbreak-identified-asian-strain
A niece who lives in Ottawa recently got a rescue dog that had been (allegedly) flown in from Russia. The dog spent the first 10 days just sitting there looking at them, doing nothing …no tail wags …no barking …drank some water and nibbled a bit of food, but nothing else for the first 10 days. The Ottawa ‘rescue’ operation charged them a 3 digit fee allegedly for transportation from Russia. My niece claims to be thrilled with her canine acquisition.
How did people ever get this stupid?
Yea….there are NO adoptable Dogs at your local SPCA.
“We must import them – at your expense” sic.
SCAM allright…a big one…likely easier than smuggling humans and near as profitable.
The people who told you there was a pet overpopulation problem are telling you we must bring dogs in from China to refill their empty shelters.
Ongoing job creation.
Doesn’t Canada have a large muzzie population? Have them call moochelle o’bammy for some recipes. Problem solved.
Why can’t this practice of importing dogs be outright banned? Unless there’s a provable shortage of a particular breed, why TF is this allowed? It’s a scam targeting the mush-minds of virtue signalers.
Are reputable dog breeding orgs alerting the media about the scam? Is anyone pressuring the dumbasses in govt?
Stupid people bought pet rocks too. Though those rocks didn’t come with a risk of importing nasty canine diseases & viruses.
People who ” rescue” dogs are like vegans, you know about it as soon as they open their mouths. Unless you dashed into a burning building or something, you didn’t rescue it, you bought it.
Every virus seems to come from China. They’ll literally eat anything down there. exposing themselves to almost every virus that comes along. Species jumping as it were. You don’t eat cats, rats, bats, gnats, etc.
One of the most heart wrenching things I saw from a video of a Chinese wet market, was a Serval in a filthy cage being sold for food. This poor animal gave a pitiful, pleaful meow. Completely helpless.
I remain frustrated that we have gone to great, and hopefully good, lengths to close the puppy mills in North America, only to see them globalized. Sickly pets as importable commodity products. (and blonde dogs seem to be in fashion).
Then I see this article today about pet ownership being a race issue. Marxist politics and global economics collide.
https://areomagazine.com/2021/02/01/critical-race-theory-is-coming-for-the-dogs-katja-guenthers-the-lives-and-deaths-of-shelter-animals/
We need a reputable psychologist to explain why otherwise sage people fall for this con. And the “ rescuers” need to recognize that their “ compassion “ in buying a “ rescued “ – trafficked – dog may bring in an incurable canine epidemic- while lining the pockets of the so- called non-profits engaging in this.
Another expression of the death of the west.
One helluva lot of people are getting dogs. They never had one before.
What happens when they go back to work?
They should get cats.