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| quote: | SHANGHAI, China - China slaughtered 50,000 dogs in a government-ordered crackdown after three people died of rabies, sparking unusually pointed criticism in state media Tuesday and an outcry from animal rights activists.
Health experts said the brutal policy pointed to deep weaknesses in the health care infrastructure in China, where only 3 percent of dogs are vaccinated against rabies and more than 2,000 people die of the disease each year.
The five-day slaughter in Mouding county in Yunnan province in southwestern China ended Sunday and spared only military guard dogs and police canine units, state media reported.
Dogs being walked were seized from their owners and beaten to death on the spot, the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported. Led by the county police chief, killing teams entered villages at night creating noise to get dogs barking, then beat the animals to death, the reports said.
Owners were offered 63 cents per animal to kill their own dogs before the teams were sent in, they said.
The killings were widely discussed on the Internet, with both legal scholars and animal rights activists criticizing them as crude and cold-blooded. The World Health Organization said more emphasis needed to be placed on rabies prevention.
Mass killings condemned
The official newspaper Legal Daily blasted the killings as an “extraordinarily crude, cold-blooded and lazy way for the government to deal with epidemic disease.”
“Wiping out the dogs shows these government officials didn’t do their jobs right in protecting people from rabies in the first place,” the newspaper, published by the central government’s Politics and Law Committee, said in an editorial in its online edition.
In an editorial, the official Xinhua News Agency said the killings wouldn’t have been necessary if the local government had been more attentive, but called the slaughter “the only way out of a bad situation.”
“If they’d discovered this earlier, they could have vaccinated the dogs and ... controlled the outbreak,” the editorial said.
Pet activists call for boycott
The killings prompted calls for a boycott of Chinese products from the activist group People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
“We are urging everyone to actively boycott — not a word we use lightly — anything from China given the bludgeoning killing of thousands of dogs,” PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said.
She said the group had canceled all orders of merchandise it sells that are made in China. Will Wright, at PETA’s European office in London, said the orders were worth about $300,000.
“We believe other groups will join us in expressing outrage over the blatant cruelty to animals the world is witnessing,” Wright said.
Mouding County officials defended the slaughter in a region where about 360 of the 200,000 residents suffered dog bites this year, with three people reportedly dying of rabies, including a 4-year-old girl.
“With the aim to keep this horrible disease from people, we decided to kill the dogs,” Li Haibo, a spokesman for the county government, was quoted as saying by Xinhua.
Calls to county government offices went unanswered Tuesday. Located in mountains about 1,240 miles southwest of Shanghai, Mouding is famed for its Buddhist shrines.
A dog's life for real
Unlike in the West, where dogs have long been cherished as companions or helpmates, dogs have rarely had an easy time in China. Dog meat is eaten throughout the country, revered as a tonic in winter and a restorer of virility in men.
Following the communist seizure of power in 1949, dog ownership was condemned as a bourgeois affectation and canines were hunted as pests. Attitudes have softened in recent years, although urban Chinese are still subject to strict rules on the size of their pets and must pay steep registration fees.
About 70 percent of rural households now keep dogs, according to the Chinese Center of Disease Control and Prevention, and increased rates of dog ownership have been tied to a surge in the number of rabies cases in recent years. It said there were 2,651 reported deaths from the disease in 2004, the last year for which data was available.
Access to rabies treatment is also highly limited, especially in the countryside, said Dr. Francette Dusan, a World Health Organization expert.
Effective rabies control requires coordinated efforts between human health, animal health and municipal agencies and authorities, Dusan said.
“This has not been pursued adequately to date in China, with most control efforts consisting of purely reactive dog culls,” she said. |
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Officials club a dog to death on a street in Luoping county in Yunnan province in this April 29 photo.
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| Aquarian |
| ing savages. I hope they all die |
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| jonSun |
| WTF thats disgusting. 63 cents a dog. |
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| Omega_M |
| i hope those beaters get slattered by rabies infected blood and die a dog's death :whip: |
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| Omega_M |
| quote: | Originally posted by Aquarian
ing savages. I hope they all die |
u mean the dogs ? |
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| Sunsnail |
| damn. i laughed at the picture :( |
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| DjConfessions |
| once u cook the rabies away, they taste pretty good |
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| Sunsnail |
| quote: | Originally posted by DjConfessions
once u cook the rabies away, they taste pretty good |
are you serious? i've always wanted to eat a dog or a cat. i just dont know if its legal to go to the dog pound and eat one or not. i mean... they kill them anyway |
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| Lira |
| quote: | China couple split over dead dog
A Chinese woman who hired four hit men to kill her husband's beloved pet wolfhound now faces divorce.
The woman, Xiao Fang, told the official Xinhua news agency she did not want the dog to mess up their new apartment in the eastern city of Nanjing.
She tried to throw the dog out but it always came back, so she hired four men to kill it while her husband was away on business.
When her husband Mr Xu found out what had happened, he was so livid he moved out of the apartment and started divorce proceedings, Xinhua said.
Her husband said the wolfhound, called Heihu or "Black Tiger", was "like a member of our family to me".
"How could she be so cruel?" he asked.
Mrs Xiao seemed equally shocked by her husband's reaction.
"Who's more important to him after all - his wife or a dog?" she reportedly asked.
Xinhua reported the incident as part of a feature on pets, and said it took place earlier this year.
The news agency went on to explore the relative benefits and disadvantages of pet ownership.
Last year, the number of rabies cases in China rose sharply - with nearly 1,300 people dying from the disease in the first nine months of the year.
But Xinhua went on to point out that a recent study by Beijing Normal University found that pet owners were healthier and happier than the rest of the population. |
Doggy love still lives on in China <3 |
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| jonSun |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sunsnail
are you serious? i've always wanted to eat a dog or a cat. i just dont know if its legal to go to the dog pound and eat one or not. i mean... they kill them anyway |
The anus is the best part. Raw too. |
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| Omega_Blue |
| i love dogs. especially in a nice gravy. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by jonSun
The anus is the best part. Raw too. |
Been told it tastes like onion rings, is that true? |
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