Moving past the part where we’re speaking in terms of what most Americans view as their pets....
Most dogs are beaten or tortured immediately prior to being killed because those who eat dog believe the dogs flesh/meat is tender due to the stress of the beating.
Now, if you can get past that and are okay with animals being beaten.....
Then there is the way the dogs are being cared for as they are raised; stuffed in cages where they cannot even begin to move, not feed or cared for in any healthy way.
It’s interesting in that those same countries are often the countries that are so cavalier about abandoning female enfants and disabled enfants (of both sexes).
Rabbits? Don’t know if they are cared for any better than the dogs.
I'd like the same thing to happen to the Chinese who do that. I would not care if they starved, they are so cruel to animals all over the world. They commit savage inhuman acts on dogs, cats, equines---anything that they can stuff in their mouths or use to "increase their virility". There are heartbreaking pictures on the internet of them removing live dogs from their cruelly tiny cages with long handled pincers, around the dog's neck or any part they can get the pincers on, with the dog screaming in pain. They tie up dogs and cats with their legs behind them and leave them in that horribly painful position until they hack them to death alive or throw them alive into vats of boiling water.
They are responsible for many species becoming endangered and regularly pay poachers to kill animals such as elephants, tigers, etc. to make their tribal version of Viagra--as if there aren't enough of them in the world already. From what I see here, they breed like roaches already. Frankly, when my neighbor spotted a cat in the window of the Chinese next door and then didn't see it thereafter, she and I were very worried about its health, or even if it was still alive.
You probably don’t know how pigs are treated at most farms and at slaughter house too.
For them dog is a farm animal. Some people has pigs for pets too. Does it mean we shouldn’t eat pig too?
Like the typical chicken that produces eggs. Go to any hatchery web site and look at the cages for sale and how many hens they are designed for. It's sick how many birds are stuffed into a cage too small to serve even a pair of canaries or finches.