The company Expédition (XP) Mi-Loup, from Île-d’Orléans, placed its entire kennel up for adoption before closing its doors permanently, a few weeks after the broadcast of a report highlighting worrying practices.
In 48 hours, nearly a hundred dogs were placed for adoption with loving families or taken in by shelters in Quebec and Ontario.
Some of them were tied to a sled for the last time on Saturday before taking a well-deserved “retirement”.
Photo Didier Debusschere
Anne Shaughnessy – Activist
“I can’t even tell you how happy I am with this outcome. There are so many horrible things that have happened here…”, says activist Anne Shaughnessy, when met on the spot by The newspaper.
Disturbing pictures
Informed of questionable company practices by a former employee, she went to the Mi-Loup Expedition site with two of her friends, including documentary filmmaker Fern Levitt, in February 2020.
Photo courtesy Fern Levitt
Activists claim to have discovered at the site in February 2020 a homemade gas chamber and the corpses of puppies.
There they found a homemade gas chamber used to asphyxiate unwanted puppies as well as a freezer filled with their corpses.
Their discovery was reported on CTV on February 6. Photos taken by the group of a box connected by a tube to a canister of welding gas and the bodies of dogs in a bloody freezer were shown there.
This method of the company to “control” the scale of the kennel has been confirmed at Newspaper by former Mi-Loup Expedition guides. But this is only the tip of the iceberg, they point out.
Photo courtesy Fern Levitt
Activists claim to have discovered at the site in February 2020 a homemade gas chamber and the corpses of puppies.
Twice a year, at least fifteen animals were shot in the head to “allow rotation with the younger dogs”.
A fate that also experienced most injured or sick dogs because we refused to call a veterinarian because of the costs, says Mathieu Lambert.
“The watchword was not to talk about all the disgusting things that were happening. We lived in lies, ”said, for his part, Mathieu Lévesque.
The current owner of Expédition Mi-Loup, Tanya Fournier-Veilleux, indicates that she was not made aware of these practices. She joined the company in September 2020, seven months after the activist group was discovered.
bitter surprise
“I started to have doubts when journalists started contacting me, but it was when I saw the report [de CTV] that I understood the magnitude of the situation,” she told the Newspaper, between two dogs put up for adoption.
Mme Fournier-Veilleux intends to stay in this environment that fascinates her, but she plans to move to a smaller kennel, where the needs of all the animals will be taken into consideration.
Contacted by The newspaper, Élisabeth Leclerc, the former co-owner of the kennel who is still a shareholder, refused to answer our questions.
Reference-www.journaldequebec.com