We don't torture them first.
Are you talking about before or after they get to the pound?
Hypocrisy for eating cat and dog never entered my mind. Just because I hadn't eaten them before and had never considered it while in the US, it didn't seem hypocritical to eat what was common in that part of the world. Half the time we had no idea what we were eating. It's not like you can order off a menu you understand.
When submitting expense reports back to my husbands company, we named the one place where we ate alot, "The Don't Ask Cafe", partly because we didn't know the name of the restaurant in English, and partly because my husband's translator had told us it was better not to ask what you were eating.
We found very few restaurants where English was spoken, or you could get a fork (LOL, I'm awful with chopsticks.) Sometimes a Chinese business associate would take us out to eat and order the meal. I wouldn't think of insulting him by quizzing him on what the stringy meat in the dish was. We, as a family, accepted the adage, "Eat what's set before you", at least while on the trip.
In Guangzhou we never saw a dog as a pet. But from what folks in other parts of China have told us, they do keep dogs and cats as pets. They do not eat dog and cat in all parts of China, just certain provinces.