Chinese dog and cat killing update

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Fri, 23 May 2008 17:16:04 +0800

" Shu Xian Zu " <zu.shuxian

" Kim Bartlett " <ANPEOPLE

Fwd: English version of the article posted (translated in a

hurry, did not get to check typo and spelling

 

 

Dear Kim, Following is a news from the earthquake areas from others.

I changed some mistakes. I've written a commment on my Blog. We can't

say too much about this during the big disaster.

 

Best wishes,

 

Shuxian

 

 

The Notice on the culling of dogs and cats from the goverment of the

earthquake areas

 

" It is better to let dogs die than let people die! " In Sichuan

earthquate area, there is a paucity of water, food, and lodging; the

pets that were owned by their onwers became homeless. Without a

source of food, they are recently wandering around rubbish heaps and

pee and shit everywhere. This only worsens the bad hygienic

conditions of the environment.

 

The government is afraid of the outbreak of rabies, neither do they

want to see the starving dogs to bite into people's corpses, so they

decided to kill the dogs and cats on a large scale, and has

established the policy of " killing every pets that are seen " .

 

The City of Dujiangyan posted dog-killing orders.

 

Starting the day before yesterday, the streets were posted with the

public notice of " launching post-calamity dog-culling compaign " ,

declaring that it is strictly forbidden to keep any dogs or cats in

the earthquake areas by any individuals or units. The authorities

(gov.) of various levels should kill all homeless dogs and cats

encountered. Nobody is allowed to stop that, any violators will be

severly punished.

 

In addition, the public announement instructed the public not to

abandon any corpses of cats and dogs, but have them deeply buried.

The city government also strongly sdvise any person biten by the dogs

to have the rabies vaciccine injected asap. The compaign is widely

welcomed by the people in the earthquate inflicted areas. Some people

say, " it is better to let dogs die than let people die " . Howerver,

the journalist still saw many homeless dogs and cats on the streets

of Dujianyan city on May 20. Before the earthquake, Sichuan province

was endemic area of rabies, the quake worsens the situation because

it makes hygiene conditions of the quake-infected areas' enviornment

very bad.

 

 

International Dept. of CSAPA

 

 

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