Posted on 03/09/2008 11:46:25 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Thousands of pet cats in Beijing are being abandoned by their owners and sent to die in secretive government pounds as China mounts an aggressive drive to clean up the capital in preparation for the Olympic Games.
Doomed: Terrified cats crammed tightly into cages are hauled off to a meat market in Guangzhou
Hundreds of cats a day are being rounded and crammed into cages so small they cannot even turn around.
Then they are trucked to what animal welfare groups describe as death camps on the edges of the city.
Secretive: The compound at Da Niu Fang which is patrolled by security guards
The cull comes in the wake of a government campaign warning of the diseases cats carry and ordering residents to help clear the streets of them.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Don't worry - Obama promises to "talk" the world and all will be well.
I tolerate the presence of one cat in my house. It makes my wife happy, so hey.
Bob Barker never made it there, did he?
I was thinking the same thing, Dinner.
I’m not a fan of PETA, but this is deplorable.
“Ahhh......Communism.
Don’t worry - Obama promises to “talk” the world and all will be well.”
Psssssst... ignore what the Chinese do, they work for cheap and make all of our junk.
Tastes like chicken!
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The article is interesting but your commentary is pretty off-the-wall. The US already talks to China.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/09/20050913-8.html
The libs will go ape over this...
...but remember, this is the country with the “one child” policy that enforces it in grizzly ways.
(btw, I have a cat)
In some cultures, rats are held in high esteem and our treatment of them in this country would insult their senses. Its the same with our pets and their treatment in other cultures. While I don’t like to see it, I don’t think it is deplorable.
Let's just hope and pray it's NOT the year of the 'Rat here concerning America's politics.
So? Almost every so called humane animal rescue center in this nation is a death camp for cats, dogs and almost any other critter they get their hands on. 3 days is the usual sometimes a week or two but cats is normaly an hour or two. I love animals and have rescued many but the reality of the humane animal societies is just plain goulish and once again it’s all about the money.
In the USA there is a trend towards shelters going no-kill. I volunteer at one in my community. While sadly there is still kill shelters, the good news is that there are many no-kill humane animal rescue shelters out there. =^..^=
That esteem could cost them, remember plague came via rats.
Too many stray cats is not a good thing but to wipe them all out will only help the rat population to explode.
Hell, the Chinese dont care about thier own people, and we expect them to be humane towards cats.
This is the face of Communism, and Obama wants this for us. Only instead of cats, maybe it will be Christians, or maybe gun owners, or maybe people who listen to talk radio.
During the last avian flu, the market for cat meat went up, which meant the field rat population skyrocketed, which caused the rice yield to go down.
In Hanoi the gov started a visible pro-cat campaign, and had words with the Chinese gov about border crossing cat-nappers.
In Cambodia they simply started eating the field rats, which are actually big fat rice eaters, not the alley rats of NYC.
>>>>>>Too many stray cats is not a good thing but to wipe them all out will only help the rat population to explode.
see my #19
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