Over 400 cats rescued from the cat dealer in Tianjin

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In the night of Feb.11, volunteers from Beijing and

Tianjin rescued over 400 cats from a cat seller in

Minquanmen Market in Tianjin. The cats were tranported

to the shelter of China Small Animal Protection

Association in Beijing.

 

The cats were mostly stray ones. But some were pets

been stolen. The seller bought them from the cat

catchers and tranport them to the southern area,

selling the fur and the meat.

 

A volunteer of Tianjin " Cat Lovers Society " discovered

the seller and asked the media for help. The media

informed the related government departments including

the police, the commercial administration and the

quarantine bureau. Since there was no law on small

animal protection, those government agencies had no

rights to resolve this issue. But many citizens who

lost their cats came to the market to look for their

cats. They broke the door of the warehouse and rescued

some cats. Then the police interfered and took some

volunteers to the police station.

 

The other volunteers called Ms. Lu Di, President of

China Small Animal Protection Association, for

help.Ms.Lu Di talked with the police on the phone. The

police said there was no relative law on cat selling

and they could not punish the cat seller. Through

negotiation, the commercial administration persuaded

the cat seller entered into an agreement with the

volunteers to hand over the cats.

 

Now all the cats were transferred to Beijing. Some

died because of the weakness and the transportation.

CSAPA is in short of money and people to take care of

all the cats and is calling on the society to help

adopt them.

 

Here is the link of the news report in Chinese media.

http://news.thebeijingnews.com/0554/2007/02-13/011 (AT) 242876 (DOT) htm

 

Irene Zhang

Animal Rescue Beijing

 

 

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