Guest guest Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 Friday, March 16, 2007 7:16 PM China dog cull - update 03.16.07 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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