Truckload of dogs saved by activists in China
Another truckload of dogs have been saved from being slaughtered and sold in restaurants after a standoff between a dog trader and animal activists over the weekend in China.
Two animal protection organizations paid about $13,000 to a dog trader in Southwest China’s Sichuan province to rescue nearly 800 dogs that were due to be delivered to restaurants, China Daily reports.
The deal was reached in the city of Zigong on Saturday night after two-days of negotiations.
The Sichuan Qiming Companion Animal Protection Center (SCAPC), a Chengdu-based animal welfare organization, and the Love of Home Animal Rescue Center (LHARC) in Chengdu raised the funds.
In exchange, the dog trader, Tang Daguo, has promised to give up dog trading.
Supporters were rallied after an animal activist saw caged dogs being loaded on two trucks in a village on Friday evening. One truck with about 500 dogs pulled away, but they managed to stop the second one.
The dog trader refused to release the dogs and asked for money. Eight dogs died in the cages during the standoff, which lasted well into Saturday.
The dogs are now being cared for by the SCAPC and LHARC in Chengdu.
A volunteer said most of the dogs are in poor health after two days without food and water, and some have broken legs as a result of being crammed in cages. At least two of the dogs turned out to be stolen from owners.
In April, animal activists stopped a truck carrying 520 dogs on the Beijing-Harbin Highway and, after a 15-hour standoff, paid 100,000 yuan to save them from being butchered and sold as meat.
(Photo by Chuan You / China Daily)
Posted by jwoestendiek October 18th, 2011 under Muttsblog.
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Comments
Comment from Questions
Time October 18, 2011 at 6:50 pm
Granted I only spent a few minutes on the net, but I wasn’t able to find info on one of the two rescues orgs mentioned in the article. If we have a problem in the states adopting out socialized animals from our shelters what is life going to be like for these dogs? I assume they are mostly unsocialized, and many are sick. Are they sent to a sanctuary, humanly euthanized, adopted out? Recently the HSUS seized 700 cats from a “sanctuary” in Florida (about 60 were immediately euthanized) http://www.humanesociety.org/news/press_releases/2011/06/florida_cat_rescue_alleged_hoarding_060711.html
Those cats were legally given to HSUS in July/August to be adopted out. Last I was aware there were still 100 or so left and it is now October. So what happens in a country like China to unsocialized, sick and injured dogs after they are rescued?
Comment from yinguoren
Time October 24, 2011 at 11:42 am
Like there is any difference between eating a dog and eating a chicken, cow, pig or duck!! They are all animals so what’s the difference?
Comment from doreen
Time October 18, 2011 at 12:41 pm
I would never forgive chinese people for
what they’ve done to God’s beautiful,
wonderful, innocent animals, and this goes for any other country that does so
much harm to these innocent animals.