Hundreds Of 'Extra' Sled Dogs Are Being Secretly Killed, Ex-Employee Says (and this isn't all)

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By Kristen Warfield
Published On 03/15/2019

After a trek through the forest at night, the group of people finally reached the spot they’d all been told about.

Brushing off mounds of the packed earth, the group started to dig where the soil had clearly been disturbed before. After a few minutes, they stepped back to shine their flashlights into the shallow ditch they’d just uncovered — and they saw dozens of old dog collars and harnesses buried there, all tarnished and covered in mud. They were confused at first.

But then they saw the bones.
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The advocates at one of the dog pits at Chocpaw Expeditions at March 2018 | Advocates

This is the scene that a group of animal advocates uncovered and photographed during a visit last March to Chocpaw Expeditions — a sled dog kennel in Ontario, Canada, that has long been rumored to have ordered the killings of dogs who weren’t fit for sledding. Tucked away behind the trees and rows of barren doghouses lies this mass grave, where dead sled dogs are tossed away after spending their whole lives on chains there.

These dogs were never meant to be found — but now, someone is speaking up for them. For their protection, the people involved in photographing the pit asked to remain anonymous. But former Chocpaw employee Chantal Dostaler, who worked at the kennel each winter season since 2013 until 2017, has spoken exclusively with The Dodo about her time there, including the moments she was ordered to bury dead dogs and even shoot one for her employer.