RE: Update on Chongqing situation

[Guest guest]

Dear all

 

Is there anything what we/I can do for this situation?

If so, please advise me !

 

Maya Ando in Hong Kong

 

 

>dhartig

>aapn

> Update on Chongqing situation

>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:23:03 +0100 (CET)

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>Friday, March 16, 2007 7:16 PM

>China dog cull - update 03.16.07

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> Dear friends,

>

> I have good news and bad news for you. Let's have the bad news first-

Wanzhou.

> I know how much you care about the dogs there. Here's the report: For

the whole

> day today, I've been watching closely about the every development

there. I called

> the different government departments,the Wanzhou District top boss

(Wanzhou is

> under Chongqing), the volunteers and local AAF rep... From what I've

learnt,

> the government has conceded to agree that as long as the dog with owner

has been

> given the anti-rabies bacterin injection, they won't be killed, at

least at the

> moment. After the local newspaper reported that, so many people have

taken their

> dogs to get the injection, especially today because it's the deadline.

These dogs

> are safe for now, thanks greatly to all your hard working and efforts -

you made

> them had to think twice before they put their hands to these dogs. So

shall we

> say our efforts are not in vain?

>

> When it comes to the homeless dogs it's a different story. Even this

morning when

> I talked to one official, he repeated the same story that I've heard

many times

> - they'll catch them and put them together, observe them then to see if

they carry

> the rabies virus. If they do, they'll be killed in the humane way. I

kept asking

> about the " humane way " and finally they told me it'll be " electric

shot " death.

> The morning pasted in a raletively peaceful way. Mr. Chen Mingcai,

President of

> Chongqing Small Animal Protection Association, who's been in Wanzhou

for many days

> trying to work out a solution and even offered to take all the homeless

dogs away

> with him to Chongqing and build a shelter for them. He won't ask for a

penny from

> the government. But his offer was denied by the governemnt because

there's a " law "

> issued in 2003 - the SARS year - which ordering that once the rabies

epidemic

> situation happened, all dogs living in the range of 3 sq.km should be

killed

> immediately without exceptions. Mr. Chen organized a team of volunteers

to walk

> around the city closely. They've caught or save a few dozens of

homeless dogs

> and transferred them in a safe place to hide. At 4 pm, Chen told me

that a video

> cameraman who's sent by an animal lover from Beijing, was arrested when

he shot

> the policement killing a homeless dog right in the street and the

volunteers trying

> to grab back the second dog the policemen were going to kill. By 6 pm,

he told me

> the cameraman was freed but what he shot was washed - very likely the

only video

> witness of the whole blooding scenes. What a pity and lost! So the

government hasn't

> kept their words and started the bloody killing exactly according to

their plan.

>

> Let's pray for their poor souls, my friends...

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