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An unlinkable story from the South China Morning Post relays the chilling tale of Chongqing municipality's Wanzhou district, where the local government has ordered that all pet dogs be put to death because a resident died of rabies. Just when you think being a dog owner in China can't get any scarier ...
The Wanzhou district government has issued a directive asking residents in the central city area to have their dogs put down before March 15. Exemptions are government department guard dogs, and those kept by research institutions, the military and for commercial purposes.The government will cull the dogs, whether they are vaccinated or not, if the residents do not do so before the deadline. Owners will be fined between 200 yuan and 1,000 yuan for every dog found after that date.
Emphasis added by Shanghaiist. The story continues:
The Wanzhou directive, published on the district government's website, outlines 16 communities and townships suspected of having rabid dogs, including Taibai Street where a resident died after being bitten by an unvaccinated dog last month."All the dogs in the area should be killed. A compulsory cull phase will begin after March 16. The forced cull will be carried out by police," the directive said.
Ran Hua , an official with the district disease control and prevention centre said: "The move is aimed at protecting people's lives. Wanzhou has not had a reported human case of rabies for the nine years up until last year when three cases were reported. We must do something to prevent the situation from worsening."
Mr Ran said the cull and fine were in line with Chongqing's regulations. Residents have voiced strong opposition to the cull but Mr Ran said the killing was necessary to eliminate the threat.
Song Yu, a Wanzhou resident who does not have a pet, said: "I understand the government's intention to protect people's lives, but the extreme decision to kill is hard for many of my friends. How can they kill the dogs they've been with for a long time with their own hands, especially when their pets have been vaccinated?"
Shanghaiist also understands the government's intention to protect ... their asses. If they would have done their jobs in the first place — educate the public (not just dog owners) about rabies prevention, properly regulate and enforce the vaccination procedure, or ... now here's an idea ... actually make the dog licensing and vaccination process easy — thousands of beloved dogs would not be paying with their lives today. And as long as we're violently overreacting, why stop with dogs? Virtually any animal can carry the virus. Kill 'em all — that's what we say. And please start with Mr. Ran Hua.
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So much for your cuddly pic.
Here's how it really goes down
www.loadedcomments.com/chinese-officials-beat-50000-dogs-to-death/
Here's another type of culling:
google.com/search?hl=en&q=gulja+massacre
china.notspecial.org/archives/2007/02/10_years_later.html
yeah, everything is wonderful.
Incidentally, i couldn't link to a story about Gulja on the Amnesty International site as the site seems to be blocked! :D
More mass slaughter... but then they're only chickens, so what the hey...
www.grinningplanet.com/2005/11-29/chicken-raising-article.htm
How about I kill every capitalist-masked-as-communist official within a 500 mile radius of chongqing?
Might that be a remedy?
bob, send me your email address and I can send all of the gory details.
Ha...gory
yeah, capitalism is gory
like the pope is catholic
like shaquille o'neal can dunk
When could those f****** officials realize it's their stupidity to cause rabies but not the dogs?
When?
When capitalism is wiped out from my country once and for all
When every corrupt and inept official is beaten, strung on meathooks and slaughtered like cattle (just like in the early 1950s)
and when my great country is returned to its founding principles of peace, love, and COMMUNISM.
And I, for one, will bleed into the ground to make sure China stays Red, to defend the ideals that many members of my family risked their lives to fight for
And it is my honest and sincere hope, that one day all the world will enjoy the peace and brotherhood of living under one truly communist state.
That's when
I think there should be a policy of culling trolls from this site...
If the “commercial” dogs are protected, why not start a small business showing the dogs, dog guardians could go to each others homes and look at the dogs and pay fees to each other, the dogs would then be protected as “commercial”.
Please get this idea to anyone that can use it or find out if it will work.
Hey Trev, your commie leader of Shanghai was corrupt. Just like so many officials in communist history.
That's because communism does not work. Enjoy bleeding into the ground, you bizarre little weirdo. If you re-consider for a little bit, you may want to go and and eat some cake in the Sun rather than worry about all of this politics stuff.
well well well the civilised race comes thru with flying colours again, kill every dog......hmmmm? good solution, maybe sort out personal hygeine and general sanitation??? you uncivilised rude, ignorant people make me sick!!! if you dont like capitalism Tony Tang, tell all your bastard friends to come home from ruining other civilsed countrys!!!!! us capitalists will fight you to your death!!!
have a great day
SINCE I HAVE LEARNT ABOUT DOGS BEING EATEN AND SLAUGHTERED IN CHINA; I HAVENT TOUCHED A SINGLE PRODUCT OF CHINA- LET ALONE BUY IT !
AND I NEVER WILL.
FOR YEARS- BEFORE I LEARNT ABOUT THE DOG BUSINESS- I WANTED TO VISIT CHINA VERY MUCH.
NOW I NEVER WILL.
China is bad, dirty and ugly
Grausamkeit zu Tieren kann nur der Mensch sein, der selbst grausam ist.
I head you CHINA!!!
I love animals!!!
pelin
STOP IT
Last year I want to visit China but know I never will. Not only they eat Dogs or Cats for me all animals are the same, also because this big and old country had to find another possibility to solve problems in a much more humanist way! One day everyone will pay for there faults and sins this for shure.
My advice is killing those people who decide to kill dogs!
Dogs and other animals are beauty of our world.We are sharing this world with other species. Nobody can decide to kill them! Beware of the curse!
STOPPPPP IT
You aren't people.You will definetely be punished
by god in the hell.I will never buy your products
and I will never visit your country.And I will
persuade my friends not to visit your country and
not to buy your products.You devils.I disgust you
slanting-eyed creatures.I don't want to see you
in my country.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am very concerned about the daily cruelety which is taken place in China at animals. All over the world people kill animals for food and fur - but it is a matter of respect and honour HOW IT IS DONE !!! To torture cats and dogs and other creatures til death is finally a act of mercy shows how poor and shabby a folk is. And the nonrespect to the own people shown by killing their pets with cheap excuses shows the poor government as well. I see China as the biggest danger in this world, as the thrill to get on the top list of the world in economy and power makes a lot of people blind. What happens when China claims the top ?? Do you really believe this will satisfy the greed ?? What the whole world has to learn - and especially China - is the respect of Mother nature and their creatures and last not least the humans living in it. This is what I call a intelligent solution with a full heart. All other sick actions bring a collaps to the whole system. Guess if some intelligent people in the governments would finally find peace in their OWN HEARTS they would find out what kind of nonsens and criminal actions they've done the last centuries. I wish China some people in the politics who appear as REAL GOOD LEADERS and bring their folk back to the human side.
STOP THIS REALLY BAD AND MEAN BEHAVIOURS TO THIS POOR CREATURES ! WE DO HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY IN THIS LIFE !!!
I PRAY TO GOD EVERY DAY TO SHOW THEM PEOPLE HOW WRONG THEY ARE.
GREETINGS WITH THE HOPE THAT THIS WORDS FIND A HUMAN WHO UNDERSTANDS !
Ingrid Kleemann
um ok some of the stuff here is ridiculous and shows a flawed understanding of Chinese government. China's central government is not responsible for this the province is (much as some states in the U.S. have a death penalty and some do not) So to blame the whole country for the act of one province is shortsighted. There are 1.3 billion people here and most are disgusted with this. the west needs to help china and not berate them and belittle them china is a great country and i love where i am in Shenyang and i am a Texas native and i love dogs and they don't eat them much here (Shenyang is in NW China)
I also hate chinese people for doing that to the dogs they even do that in my country suriname sometimes I wish that their whole country would be destroyed by a flood or worse.I really want to stop them but I am alone Is there someone who can help me to protect these dogs?? We can do it together.