(CN) Chifeng city dog slaughter

August 23, 2009

From Animals Asia Foundation Website:

http://www.animalsasia.org/index.php?UID=A4ZWPZ24JXF

17 August 2009

Animals Asia has received information from contacts in Chifeng City, Inner

Mongolia that the Hongshan district police office has instigated a policy of

indiscriminate dog slaughter. The authorities in Chifeng City issued

dog-management regulations to the people of the city back in 2003.

The authorities claim that in recent years, the behaviour of dogs and their

guardians has become out of control. Therefore in August 2009, the police

issued an official announcement forbidding dogs and dog guardians from:

1. Raising large dogs and dangerous dogs in the downtown area of Chifeng

City.

2. Entering markets, shops, restaurants, parks, public greenbelt, schools,

hospitals, movie theaters, gymnasiums, pleasure grounds, bus stations,

airports, streets, resident communities, and other public areas.

3. Walking dogs on the street and footpath.

4. Entering public vehicles and elevators.

If anyone gets out of line, the police will kill all such dogs....

Evidence of this slaughter has been confirmed by the online news agency

sina.com at

http://bbs.news.sina.com.cn/thread-9-0/tree-842212-3930.html [Please be

warned this link contains disturbing images]

Animals Asia is saddened and appalled by these actions being carried out by

the Chifeng authorities and the development of archaic rules to regulate

dog-guardianship in the city and control street-dog populations.

Animals Asia, in partnership with Chinese animal-welfare groups as part of

the 'Friends of Animals Asia Alliance' has written to the Chifeng

authorities calling for an immediate end to this mass slaughter, and asking

the authorities to consider a 'grandfather' approach allowing people to

keep the dogs they have and, once they have died naturally, instructing

owners not to replace them with other dogs. This will at least allow owners

to keep their beloved family members. Our coalition letter is below.

To read a report on dog-population management in China and how Animals Asia

strives to prevent more culls, please

What you can do

You can help support our efforts to battle this atrocity. Please write a

polite letter to the Chinese Ambassador and send it to the main embassy

address in your country. Embassy addresses can be found here:

http://www.travelchinaguide.com/embassy/embassy_list.htm

Explain, politely but firmly, that the policy is cruel, heartless and

ineffective, and paints the people and government of Chifeng in a very poor

light.

Urge the Chinese authorities to persuade the Chifeng City government to

abandon this carnage in favour of a humane trap-neuter-release and

vaccination programme, as recommended by the WHO, and animal-welfare

organisations worldwide. Please urge the authorities in Beijing to allow dog

owners to keep the dogs they already have and allow them to live out their

natural lives.

Never underestimate the power of letters. We encourage you to send a

letter to the relevant government or organisation concerned, from your own

email address. You can copy and paste the letter below or write a letter

with your own message. We believe that sending it from your personal account

has a greater impact on the recipient than receiving multiple emails sent

through our website.

Mr Chu Bo

Secretary of the CPC Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee

Xinhua Dajie

Hohhot City 010055

Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

Peoples' Republic of China

August 2009

Dear Mr Chu Bo,

The undersigned organisations jointly call on the Chifeng City authorities

to stop the indiscriminate killing of innocent dogs.

We have received information from contacts in Chifeng City reporting the

Hongshan district police office have instigated a policy of indiscriminate

dog slaughter. Information suggests the police are implementing

dog-management regulations issued in 2003 which forbid all dogs from

entering the public areas of the city, forbid people from walking their dogs

on the streets and forbid large dogs in the downtown areas. Dogs found in

public are being brutally slaughtered. This mass slaughter is being

publicised worldwide via the sina.com website.

http://bbs.news.sina.com.cn/thread-9-0/tree-842212-3930.html .

We are appalled at this slaughter, and ask you to put a stop to this

immediately.

We also appeal to you to adopt internationally recognised methods of

street-dog population management. The mass slaughter of street dogs is an

ineffective way of controlling dog populations. Innovative solutions to the

problems of stray-dog control, such as " Animal Birth Control " programmes

coupled with effective waste management, are being adopted throughout the

world, with statistically proven results: shelter intakes are down,

" nuisance " animals greatly reduced and most importantly, the incidence

of rabies has dropped dramatically.

Data from Chennai in India shows a comprehensive animal birth control and

vaccination programme was far more effective in reducing street-dog numbers

and rabies than mass slaughter; Chennai has seen a reduction in human cases

of rabies from around 120 per year to 5 per year since 1996.

International health organisations recognise mass vaccination of dogs as the

most effective method of controlling canine, and by extension, human rabies.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) states " there is no evidence that

removal of dogs alone has ever had a significant impact on dog population

densities or the spread of rabies " .

The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) states " Animal vaccination

remains the method of choice to control and eradicate rabies " . The Alliance

for Rabies Control also states that the most effective method to

successfully eliminate rabies is the use of organised mass vaccination

campaigns.

I refer you to the " Humane Dog Population Management Guidance " , published

by the International Companion Animal Management Coalition and available at

http://www.icam-coalition.org This site offers a comprehensive explanation

of the operation of trap-neuter-release programmes.

Clearing city streets of dogs only encourages other animals from the

surrounding areas to take their place, potentially spreading disease. A

stable, desexed and vaccinated dog population can help prevent rabies by

keeping dogs from other regions away.

A recent online opinion poll suggested that more than 70% of respondents in

China also oppose such dog slaughters. The dog management regulations and

cull in Chifeng City runs counter to the progress made in other cities in

the field of urban animal management, Beijing, and more recently Hehei, have

stopped indiscriminate slaughter and are looking at more enlightened and

humane methods of dog population management and rabies control.

If the dog-killing continues, the image and reputation of Chifeng City, the

autonomous region of Inner Mongolia and China as a whole, will suffer in the

eyes of the world. This misguided slaughter of innocent lives must end.

As a coalition of international and Chinese animal-protection groups that

have always welcomed and supported China's progress, we appeal to the

Chinese authorities to end the dog massacre once and for all.

Our supporters worldwide are expressing grave concern about the unnecessary

suffering in Chifeng City. While we encourage our supporters to continue

monitoring the situation, we wish to adopt a positive approach. To this end,

we are ready to offer appropriate expertise and practical resources to help

localities with the provision of information on the appropriate care of pet

dogs and the problem of dog overpopulation and disease control.

We would also be prepared to set up a task force with the aim of sharing

information on internationally accepted methods of humane dog population

management, dog registration, and mass vaccination.

Over the past 30 years, China has made incredible progress. We believe that

engaging in dialogue with international experts on urban animal management

will represent another big step forward for China in the eyes of the world.

We hope to be able to make a positive contribution to this part of China's

development.

Yours sincerely,

David Neale

Animal Welfare Director

Animals Asia Foundation

Tel: (44) 01579 347148

Fax: (44) 01579 347343

Email: dneale

Web: http://www.animalsasia.org

On behalf of the organisations listed below:

Shan Tou Cat Lover Association

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Fu Zhou Pet /Fu Zhou Small Animal Protection Website/Fu Zhou Cat

Beautiful New World (Beijing)

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Zhang Zhou Small Animal Protection Association

Shen Zhen Stray Dog Posthouse

Chengdu Home of Love Small Animal Rescue Center

Xia Men Animal Protection & Education Association

Chong Qing Small Animal Protection Association

Wu Han Stray Pet Rescue Centre

Xiâ€™an Red Guava Companion Animal Rescue Center

Han Dan Small Animal Protection Website

Chang Sha Small Animal Protection Association

Si Chuan Qi Ming Small Animal Protection Centre

Nan Jing Ping An A Fu Stray Animal Rescue Association

Kun Ming Stray Animal Rescue Alliance

Ha'er Bing Small Animals Protection Association

Guang Yuan Bo Ai Small Animal Protection Association

Favor the World Online Forum

Han Dan Small Animal Protection Website

Humane Society of United States

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Shan Xi Xi Jing Companion Animal Rescue Centre

Letter copied to:

1.Yang Jing, Chairman of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

2.Wang Zhong He: Mayor of Chifeng City

3.Mr Peng Qinghua, Director, Liaison Office of the Central People's Government

in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Area

4.Ambassadors of the Chinese embassies of the UK, the US, Australia, Italy and

Germany.

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