This is a really hard one guys

[Rosie]

Check out this story, apologies in advance.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060731...naanimalhealth

 

[Rick Blaine]

Check out this story, apologies in advance.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060731...naanimalhealth

... link will not work

 

[scotrace]

This takes me to Mr. Dead Link??

 

[Rosie]

Sorry, try this one:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060731/wl_afp/chinaanimalhealth



50,000 dogs slaughtered in China in anti-rabies campaign

Mon Jul 31, 2:42 AM ET

BEIJING (AFP) - A county in southwest China has ordered all 50,546 dogs to be killed in an effort to fight a rabies outbreak that has caused the deaths of three people, state media has said.
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Around 90 percent of the dogs in Muding county, Yunnan province, had already been killed since the campaign began on July 25, the Beijing News said.

Owners were ordered to kill their pets or face having teams of local police and other enforcement officers kill them, it said.

Even the 4,292 dogs in the county that had been immunized against rabies were ordered put to death, as authorities said the immunizations were not 100 percent effective, the report said.

From January through July, 360 people in the county had been bitten by dogs, with the three human deaths occurring since April, the Beijing Times said.

Some owners have used methods including hanging their dogs, electrocuting them and clubbing them to death, while others used drugs, the Beijing News said.

Dog owwners had been compensated five yuan (60 cents) each for the loss of their pets.

A reporter for the Beijing News who visited the county said one woman was told by dog-elimination squads patrolling the streets that her dog had to be killed. She covered her eyes as the patrollers beat her dog to death.

To prevent dog owners from violating the order, roadside checkpoints had been set up to inspect vehicles for dogs, the Beijing News said. Any dogs found were immediately killed at the scene.

Only police dogs and canines used to guard military artillery warehouses were spared.

China has laws banning harm to endangered animals. But there are no regulations protecting other animals, including pets.

A small but growing number of animal activists and pet owners in China are pushing to build a humane society and legislate animal protection, but those efforts are usually only in big cities.



A county in southwest China has ordered all 50,546 dogs to be killed in an effort to fight a rabies outbreak that has caused the deaths of three people, state media has said.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Can they at least be eaten? Can the fur be used to make coats and blankets? Can the bones be used for glue? Otherwise, it seems a total waste.


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[Daisy Buchanan]

That is just horrible!
Being someone whose dog recently passed away, I couldn't imagine going through what these people are going through. Although, it seems like they aren't having a problem doing it, by their explanation of the way these people are disposing of their pets. It's all quite ill making, really.

 

[Cousin Hepcat]

Check out this story, apologies in advance.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060731...naanimalhealth

Deplorable. Was talking about that with coworkers when the story appeared. I read things like that, and say Thank God I was born in the US...

Swing High,
- C H

 

[Marc Chevalier]

In China, dogs have traditionally been seen as sources of food or safety. A dog was like a hog: edible. It could also guard one's home.

Having dogs as pets is a relatively new practice in China. Western influence, mainly.

We slaughter and eat millions of cows every year. Observant Hindus are horrified by this.


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[Daisy Buchanan]

In China, dogs have traditionally been seen as sources of food or safety. A dog was like a hog: edible. It could also guard one's home.

Having dogs as pets is a relatively new practice in China. Western influence, mainly.

We slaughter and eat millions of cows every year. Observant Hindus are horrified by this.


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You're right about the cows. But my 1500 sq. foot condo just isn't big enough for a pet cow. My dog was black and white spotted, and I did lovingly call her "moo". Everyone has the right to their own opinion, but I like to eat steak, if the cow were my pet, I probably wouldn't be able to eat it. I prefer to play catch with dogs, we get close to them, we consider them companions, not food. In some cultures, people eat bugs. We think this is gross. So many differences.

 

[Hemingway Jones]

I would beat my 401K that more dogs than 50,000 are killed in shelters in the US each year, but it is not the killing; it's the senseless cruelity of the reasoning behind it and the method that is so offensive to this story.

Sophisticated societies have humane methods, from slaughterhouse to animal shelters.

In my opinion, just because I eat an animal doesn't mean that it is entitled to any less respect. In some cases, it is entitled to more respect.

When I last went Yellow-fin Tuna fishing and I caught three that were above 75 lbs and as I saw how incomprehensibly beautiful those fish were with their silvery sides and incandescent fins and as I reeled them in I realized that they were precious and that taking them out of the cold deep ocean was serious. So I caught them well with the best technic I had; keeping my back straight and "swimming" the fish toward the boat.

Catching them well and treating them with respect helped assuage some of the regret of taking so magnificant a fish from the sea.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

...my 1500 sq. foot condo just isn't big enough for a pet cow.

Daisy, you're a sweetheart! lol

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[Twitch]

If there's an upside to this, at least it's not people as it often has been over there.....