Heartbreaking for the dogs. I adopted a dog from a shelter here in Chicago, and she was near being put down; a few days away. CACC is filled with pit mixes, which Greta is, and she’s just the sweetest thing. Our groomer says it every time, and our local Bentley’s has adopted her as an unofficial treat-tester and publicity dog.
I can’t imagine seeing what those dogs in China go through. Honestly, the population are barbarians; at least the ones who will eat anything. Personally, if I can see that an animal is capable of sensitivity and showing emotion, which dogs are, I’d have a hard time eating it. I even have a hard time with pork, because pigs are intelligent animals capable of emotion. Ask anyone who has one as a pet, and I don’t mean on a farm for slaughter.
The problem is that these “meat dogs” have already brought in diseases and parasites to American dogs.
A new distemper, dog rabies is back, a dog flu and the Asian tick all came from these dogs.
My local shelter imports them and one group had to be put down for rabies shortly after arriving.
This last bunch of purebred Jindos [not a dog for casual owners] was “quarantined” for a whole 2 days before being put up for adoption [at hefty prices] while the native dogs still languished in their cells, unwanted and “plain”.
Many of the real meat dogs [not the ones the savvy Asians are now backyard breeding for bleeding hearts] and are so feral and unsocialized that they wind up put down for aggression.
Packs of pure Golden Retrievers, French Bulldogs and other obviously not-meat dogs are being bred to supply the “rescues”.
As much as you know I love all dogs, importing foreign dogs is a very bad thing.
There are thousands upon thousands of “common American dogs” being euthanized because people want these new Virtue Signalling Dogs.
They are also FAR more profitable for these “rescues” which are in reality, quite often “flippers”.
Beyond the heart-tugging commercials is a hidden dark side to these “rescued dogs”, which endangers every dog born here.
Just taking your dog to a pet store where they have tramped exposes them to the new health threats.
It’s not bad enough Asia keeps infecting us, now they’re infecting our dogs, too.
And yes, they are barbaric, sadistic, soulless heathens who torture and slaughter animals brutally and wantonly.
Bless YOU for saving a native dog in need.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/canada-rescue-dogs-import-canines-disease-1.3757656