Absolutely disgusting. Some people do not deserve to be alive.

Amateur cryogenics?

I was at my son's school earlier this week and a young girl told me that her dog had died and they had put the dog in the freezer to await summer when they could bury the beloved dog. I'm wondering if this is something similar that has gone terribly wrong. As morbid as this sounds, I wonder if the animal was alive before it was frozen.
I also can not help but think of Air Canada and the problems some others have experienced with shipping their animals in the unheated cargo bins. A grusome thought but given what has happened in the past, it still might be a possibility.

Alright people. Let's get a grip on things. This story has been on the internet and if you google it, you will find pictures of the block of ice with the dog in it if you are into that sort of thing. Along with the story on the CBC page are over a hundred comments, first starting off exactly as the comments on here. Basically the assumption was that this dog was frozen alive, that this is animal cruelty, etc. etc.

Think it through a bit, please. If there was cruelty of any sort, the dog would have drowned in the first instance. The freezing would have been done after the dog was dead.

Forensics will determine how the dog died, whether by intentional drowning or for some other more natural reason.

If one was to take any living thing, plant, animal, or any other biological organism, and suspend it into a frozen state, it would have to be flash frozen, such as is done with Cryogenics as Harbinger pointed out.

As realist wrote, deceased animals are put into freezers on occasion, not only by lay people, but also by professionals working with animals on a regular basis, for a variety of reasons. This may have been done for a similar purpose with only the best of intentions and not for some sadistic purpose.

Let us wait out the results of this and hope that the BCSPCA erred in leaving the story untouched without putting the public's mind at ease.

I’m not a forensic detective but I can tell you that the dog was alive before it was frozen, and not the other way around

Whitewater, you apparently, by your post, have some information about this animals demise. Kindly contact the SPCA and fill them in.
Gus, thanks for bringing a little normalcy to the rants.

LOL, good one whitewater. I think it was alive before it died before it was frozen.

Who cares?? It's a damn dog. Try to keep in mind that dogs are not humans. The reason it was left on someones lawn escapes me but I can conjure up of plenty.

Supertech, do you have a heart? I don't think you do.
"Who cares? It's a damn dog."
There are many dog lovers on this site including me and the staff of Opinion 250.
Obviously you are not fond of animals so your opinion is of little value in regards to this article.

Not only is this disturbing to anyone who is an animal lover,but studies have found some serial killers have practiced their trade on different species before progressing to humans.This is another reason the authorities are interested in getting to the bottom of this mystery,as we have enough to worry about in this world,without ignoring the obvious signs staring us straight in our faces.

250 is a little slow on this story, I heard it on CBC radio Wednesday morning.
Even the CBC announcers did not run off at the mouth like some of the opinionators here. They stated that the dog was deceased before being frozen, and that it appeared to have been killed by an animal.
Still pretty weird, but my guess is that this was a sick joke perpetrated by some folks of low intellect and questionable breeding. They are probably very immature to boot.
metalman.