Chinese man caught with 500 imprisoned cats destined for restaurants

Washington Post ^ | June 13 at 5:15 AM | By Simon Denyer

[Red Badger]

BEIJING — In China, it is legal to eat cats and dogs. Even so, ordinary people reacted with alarm this week as news broke of a Chinese man caught with 500 cats, crowded into tiny cages, which he intended to sell to restaurants.

The man had used sparrows and caged birds to lure both stray cats and domestic ones in the city of Jiujiang in southern Jiangsu province, the 163.com and news.ifeng.com websites reported.

Many of the cats were found in cages in the back of a small truck, some near death and mewing faintly in the heat, while others were recovered in a hut near a highway, cooled only by a ceiling fan. The man usually sold the cats for about 30 yuan ($4.40) each, the report said, citing a local policeman.

The man, identified only as Sun, was arrested Sunday after another man complained to police that someone had been stealing his pets, including a mother nursing five kittens. Police said that if no owners came forward, they would just release the 500 cats, the report said.

The news provoked intense debate on the Netease portal, with more than 40,000 comments, although more appeared to express indignation at the idea that the man had lured away people’s pets than at the idea of eating the animals.

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[stboz]

The whiskers can be used for dental floss....

[MplsSteve]

Over the years, I’ve eaten at a few Chinese restaurants that might possibly have believed that eating cats (and dogs) was legal here too.

Blech!

[brucedickinson]

trumps’ department of justice grabbed this guys’ pussies

[Ciaphas Cain]

Some years ago my girlfriend and I went for dinner after a movie and ended up at a Chinese restaurant. It was a Saturday night and the place was packed.

Halfway through our meal there came a LOUD crashing sound from the direction of the kitchen. It was so cacophonous that EVERYONE stopped eating and turned to look.

And in that horrible pause, I succumbed to the lesser angels of my nature and blurted out for all to hear...

"They can't find their cat."

[Red Badger]

[ZULU]

All cultures are equal? Bull$**(

[bk1000]

how do parts of the world not see the difference between cats, dogs, and the other animals? Don’t say there is no difference between a dog and a cow.

[dfwgator]

Came for the pic of the restaurant sign, goes away happy.

[MrEdd]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn2Sa5UGxK8

[Red Badger]

To them, there is no difference.
What is the difference between eating a squirrel and a rat?.................

[MrEdd]

The difference is the love put into a pet.
That comes from the human that loves it.

[SparkyBass]

Waaaay back a Mexican restaurant opened in a small town not far from my small hometown... Casa Lupe.

After a few years they were busted for cages in the alley behind the kitchen...

We all started calling it Catsa Lupe!

[Red Badger]

Have you ever noticed that the name of the restaurant on the sign is different in different places?.............

[rlmorel]

Me too...:)

[taterjay]

Let’s see...strange religions can behead and kill people with no outrage, but someone wants to eat a cat and the world goes bonkers.

[rlmorel]

I can’t bring myself to watch it...last week, I stumbled across Weird Al doing a cover of James Brown’s “Living in America” titled “Living With a Hernia” and it has about destroyed that song for me...

Darn it.

[neefer]

I asked an acupuncturist why the Chinese eat unusual foods. He said it was due to many famines over the centuries. Everyone is sentimental about their grandma’s sauteed rat recipe.

[MrEdd]

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