Results tagged “animalcruelty”

Chinese tourists on National Holiday killed roughly 300 butterflies a day at the Shanghai Botanic Garden - meaning that the destination has lost around 2,400 of the insects over the last eight days. It tried to hire three volunteers to prevent visitors from grabbing at the butterflies to take pictures of themselves with the insects, but three volunteers apparently couldn't do much versus 10,000 visitors. Ginkgo trees, which tourists shook for fruit, were also damaged. Source: Shanghai Daily

By Richard Yu

By Derek Sandhaus

We are all for this whole harmonious society thing, but when someone sent us this link on popular Chinese message board Tianya today, we couldn’t help wonder ... just what exactly is harmonious these days. We didn’t look at the images posted in the thread (we warn you, don't do it if you don't want nightmares), but they were screen captures from a video uploaded to tudou.com on March 25 (after we protested, the site deleted the video today, but you can still see a small captured image on the uploader's profile.) This user, named "fenluodeiren" posted a video named "黑白双杀" (or "killing white and black"), which basically is about how four guys, allegedly from Hunan, skinned one black and one white cat while they were ALIVE!

Late last year, Shanghaiist ran several stories on the abhorrent Animal Olympics event held in Shanghai. Such was the media and public backlash against this event, we didn't expect to see performances of its ilk again in Shanghai. Optimists like us are often proven wrong. Shanghai Wild Animal Park, the organisers of last year's Animal Olympics, appear to be up to their old tricks.

For days, Shanghaiist has been thinking of new and creative ways to curse the high-heeled kitten killer, even though she made an insincere apology, our anger has not ceased. Because no laws against animal cruelty exist in China, the bitch got off scott free.

Shanghaiist is in a fury. No, not because of the freezing weather, but because of a recent thread in a pet website we frequent.