Cat Cleanup In China, Death-Style

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Cat Cleanup In China, Death-Style KINSHIP CIRCLE PRIMARY - PERMISSION TO CROSS-POST AS WRITTEN Be counted. Send a letter. 3/22/08: Cat Cleanup In China, Death-Style http://www.KinshipCircle.org EMAIL kinshipcircle FOR WORD DOC OF A FORMATTED LETTER. Easily modify letter and copy/paste it into an email or print out to fax or mail. A cat begs mercy from her captor... Terrified cats crammed tightly into cages are hauled off to a meat market in Guangzhou. =========================================================== FULL CONTACT INFORMATION. Email Block & Sample Letter Follow. =========================================================== A past letter sweep to Chinese and Beijing-Olympics officials contributed to Beijing calling off one of its dog culls (though some animals were killed). Copy/paste email blocks (at end of contacts list), personalize your letter a bit, and hit send. THANK YOU for taking the time to act effectively. CHINESE GOVERNMENT CONTACTS: His Excellency, Hu Jintao, President of the People's Republic of China 9

Xihuang-Chenggen Beijie; Beijing, Peoples Republic of China email: info, info National People's Congress (NPC) of People's Republic of China No. 23, Xijiaominxiang, Xicheng District, Beijing 100805 People's Republic of China email: english National Government: govonline Supreme People's Procuratorate of China: webmaster Xinhua News Agency Beijing Xuanwumen Street West Building No. 127 Dacheng, Postal Code: 100031 email: xhszbs, xhsgnb, dwb China's Official Gateway to News & Information

China Internet Information Center 6th Floor, Building B, 89 Xi Sanhuan Bei Lu, Beijing 100089, China ph: 86-10-8882 8258; fax: 86-10-8882 8331 email: webmaster, wandi web mail: http://service.china.org.cn/link/wcm/comments_e CHINESE TOURISM: China National Tourism Administration 9A Jianguomennei Ave., Beijing 100740 ph: (0086-10) 65201114; fax: (0086-10) 65122096 email: webmaster, hzhang, xhzhang CHINESE MINISTRIES: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Of The People's Republic Of

China Yang Jiechi, Minister of Foreign Affairs No. 2, Chaoyangmen Nandajie; Chaoyang District; Beijing, 100701 ph: 86-10-65961114; email: webmaster Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China 6/F, B3, Ziguang Building, No 11 Huixin Dongjie Chaoyang District, Beijing 100029, China ph: (8610) 8488 3630; fax: (8610) 8488 3500 email: szw, chinaculture Ministry of Communication: master Ministry of Agriculture: webmaster Ministry of Education: emic Ministry of Health: manage ALL

CHINESE MINISTRIES: http://www.mac.doc.gov/china/Ministries.html CHINESE EMBASSIES: CHINESE EMBASSY IN UNITED STATES 2300 Connecticut Ave. NW; Washington DC 20008 ph: 1+ 202-328-2500; fax: 1+ 202-232-7855 email: chinaembassy_us FOR CHINESE EMBASSIES STATIONED IN OTHER COUNTRIES, TRY: http://www.travelchinaguide.com/embassy/embassy_list.htm http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/wjb/zwjg/2490/default.htm BEIJING GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS: Beijing Tourism

Administration: dongcheng, xicheng, xicheng, chongwen, xuanwu, chaoyang, gaobeidian, haidian, fengtai, shijingshan, mentougou, fangshan, tongzhou, shunyi, daxing, changping, pinggu, huairou, miyun, yanqing, chezhan Beijing Official Website Portal: http://www.eBeijing.gov.cn Digital Beijing Building, Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, PRC fax: 86 10 8437 1700; email:

english web mail (bottom of page): http://www.ebeijing.gov.cn/siteinfo/t43272.htm Beijing Foreign Affairs Office No.2, Zhengyi Road, Dongcheng District, Beijing, PRC 100744 fax: 86 10 6519 2775; email: information BEIJING 2008 OLYMPIC GAMES: Beijing Organising Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) Beijing Olympic Tower, 267 Beisihuanzhonglu Haidian, Beijing, 100083, P.R.China ph: (8610) 66692008; fax: (8610) 66699229 email: 2008, beijingconference ADDITIONAL BEIJING OLYMPIC CONTACTS:

webmaster, mishubu, zongti, international, sports, xuanchuan, guihua, marketing, technology, legal, gamesservices, jiancha, renshi, caiwu, wenhua, security, mediaoperations, VEM, paralympic, transport, OTR, accreditation, OCC, volunteerop, ticketing Jacques Rogge, President, International

Olympic Committee Chateau De Vidy, Case Postale 356; 1007 Lausanne, Switzerland ph: +41-21-621-6111; fax: +41-21-621-6216 email: jacques.rogge, pressoffice, info =========================================================== EMAIL BLOCKS: All emails. Copy/paste into or Bcc: line of email. =========================================================== Kinship Circle cannot guarantee validity of email addresses. During campaigns, recipients may change or disable their emails. Emails obtained from government or corporate websites may be incorrect. info, info, english, webmaster, xhszbs, xhsgnb, dwb, webmaster,

wandi, webmaster, hzhang, xhzhang, webmaster, szw, chinaculture, master, webmaster, emic, manage, chinaembassy_us dongcheng, xicheng, xicheng, chongwen, xuanwu, chaoyang, gaobeidian, haidian, fengtai, shijingshan, mentougou, fangshan, tongzhou, shunyi, daxing, changping, pinggu, huairou, miyun, yanqing, chezhan, english, information 2008, beijingconference, webmaster, mishubu,

zongti, international, sports, xuanchuan, guihua, marketing, technology, legal, gamesservices, jiancha, renshi, caiwu, wenhua, security, mediaoperations, VEM, paralympic, transport, OTR, accreditation, OCC, volunteerop, ticketing, jacques.rogge, pressoffice, info =========================================================== SAMPLE LETTER -- This letter is prepared to inform you about the issue. Try to shorten and personalize your letter before sending.

=========================================================== Honorable Government Officials, The ongoing assault on animals shames China and the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Government-supervised dog culls have already generated negative publicity. Now, cats are corralled into cages and trucked to compounds as part of a "disease prevention" sweep of Beijing's estimated 500,000 cats. I understand tens of thousands of cats have been collected since last July. Citizens worldwide are outraged by press accounts that describe Beijing kindergarten teachers thrashing cats to death with sticks or residents discarding pets in the streets for roundup by killing squads. Labeling cats a health risk linked to the 2003 SARS outbreak does not disguise the government's true motive: To clean-up the capital in time to greet tourists during the Olympics. In fact, extermination of companion animals leads to

international boycotts of the Games. Mass kills reveal how misinformed and barbaric Chinese animal control policies truly are. I call upon officials to stop present and future killing of companion animals. Reactive culls are a crude solution to complex health issues and ultimately do little to control strays or stop disease transmission. I also ask officials to uphold their statement about permitting people to adopt confiscated cats from at least 12 urban pounds. Humane groups have told global media they're denied entry into these filthy compounds where most cats perish from disease. One group allowed inside reported "about 70 cats kept in cages stacked one on top of the other in two tiny rooms." Most cats don't get out alive. Please lower the current 200-yuan fee to have pets neutered and tagged. The high price prompts some people to abandon their pets. Rather than collect and kill, I urge you to

activate low-cost neutering and registration so your citizens can afford their companion animals If China wants to project a sophisticated image during the Olympics, it must foster a culture of responsible guardianship, disease prevention and humane education in keeping with 21st Century animal welfare standards. I respectfully await your reply, =========================================================== SOURCE OF INFORMATION / REFERENCE LINKS =========================================================== LEFT PHOTO: Retired doctor Hu Yuan, 80, runs one of few remaining refuges for abandoned pets in her ramshackle home in the ancient Long Tou Jing area of Beijing. She shares her tiny home with 250 abandoned cats and

has taken in 70 over the past 12 months alone. She pays for neutering and food from her pension and donations. She said: "If I don't take them in, the government will kill them.” RIGHT PHOTO: A rescued pet showing clear signs of disease. * Olympics clean-up Chinese style: Inside Beijings shocking death camp for cats http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=528694 & amp;in_page_id=1766#StartComments * Shocking Death Camps for Cats Result of Beijing Olympics Clean-Up http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,336276,00.html Kinship Circle is a

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