linkSASKATOON - The seven dogs who ate the remains of their dead owners in a home in Saskatchewan have all been adopted.
Marv LeNabat of the Saskatoon SPCA says the canines had a behavioural and health assessment and they are confident the dogs will thrive in their new homes.
The dogs belonged to a devoted couple who lived in a rural home near Springside in eastern Saskatchewan.
When the wife died after an illness, her husband then killed himself, leaving the dogs behind to fend for themselves.
RCMP were called to the house July 3 when the owners hadn’t been seen for a couple of weeks.
Brad Pattison, a dog trainer who hosts several TV shows, spent a day earlier this week with the dogs and says they pose no danger to anyone.
Pattison hosts Puppy SOS and is also a trainer on the Slice TV show At the End of My Leash, said the dogs have good dispositions, are compatible with people, and had no trouble being checked out.
He says the dogs did what they had to do to survive.
“You just can’t assume just because they’ve had human flesh, that they’re going to become these creatures of the night, like a werewolf,” says Pattison.
Granted, they didn't attack and kill them, but I'm not sure I'd be entirely comfortable with a dog that would bite into human flesh. Would they do it if someone was passed out drunk or otherwise unconscious, rather than dead?
