China province orders mass killing of ALL dogs, street or pet
Full article by HSUS here.
China: Yangxian, a city of 430,000 residents, lies in southern Shaanxi. In recent weeks the local authority jumpstarted a MASS DOG KILLING program by alleging that more than 300 people had been bitten by stray dogs and that two had died of dog-bite-caused rabies. At least 20,000 dogs, many registered and vaccinated household pets, have been bludgeoned to death. Not all successfully before being buried alive in mass graves.
The authorities are not simply targeting street dogs: they demanded that dog owners kill their pets within two days or surrender them to be killed by the military police at a cost of 100 yuan ($16) each. Widespread resistance to the government order was not surprising. To break the resistance, dog killing squad teams composed of government officials were hastily set up and tasked with exterminating all the dogs in designated districts. The squad team members cannot return home, according to a government order, until they finish killing the last dog in the districts to which they were assigned.
After achieving success in stopping government-mandated culls in several major cities, Chinese animal protection groups are mobilizing to stop this inhumane practice across the country. International support for Chinese grassroots efforts is vital to speeding up policy change and making dog culling history.
You can sign a petition to President Hu Jintao of the People’s Republic of China HERE..
You can donate to sterilization and vaccination programs for street dogs in China HERE.
China: Yangxian, a city of 430,000 residents, lies in southern Shaanxi. In recent weeks the local authority jumpstarted a MASS DOG KILLING program by alleging that more than 300 people had been bitten by stray dogs and that two had died of dog-bite-caused rabies. At least 20,000 dogs, many registered and vaccinated household pets, have been bludgeoned to death. Not all successfully before being buried alive in mass graves.
The authorities are not simply targeting street dogs: they demanded that dog owners kill their pets within two days or surrender them to be killed by the military police at a cost of 100 yuan ($16) each. Widespread resistance to the government order was not surprising. To break the resistance, dog killing squad teams composed of government officials were hastily set up and tasked with exterminating all the dogs in designated districts. The squad team members cannot return home, according to a government order, until they finish killing the last dog in the districts to which they were assigned.
After achieving success in stopping government-mandated culls in several major cities, Chinese animal protection groups are mobilizing to stop this inhumane practice across the country. International support for Chinese grassroots efforts is vital to speeding up policy change and making dog culling history.
You can sign a petition to President Hu Jintao of the People’s Republic of China HERE..
You can donate to sterilization and vaccination programs for street dogs in China HERE.