A citywide dog cull in China is slated to begin on Thursday, September 10, 2009. According to the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), the canine cull is taking place in order to contain rabies and control the dog population in the area.
According to the report, “dog-beating squads” will scour the streets of Qinhuangdao and kill dogs that are not registered, vaccinated or are strays. Dog owners are being asked to kill their own dogs by Thursday if they are considered “dangerous breeds” or are over one foot tall!
Earlier this year, more than 37,000 dogs were brutally killed in the Shaanxi Province of China due to a rabies outbreak involving humans. According to reports, 13 people died of rabies. While 240,000 dogs in the city were vaccinated against rabies, unattended dogs on the streets of Hanzhong were killed. An unnamed official said, “Telling people that unattended dogs will be killed, is an effective way to contain the epidemic because it encourages dog owners to keep their pets at home.” Many of the animals were brutally clubbed to death on the streets. Some dogs were strays, some were pets. Warning – graphic photos can be seen on this website.
Due to the lack of population control efforts, pet education and rabies prevention programs, canine culls are one such way to contain rabies and contain the population. The government is working with various organizations, including the IFAW, the Humane Society International and ACTAsia, in order to draft welfare legislation for animals.
you idiotic chinese people! how dare you kill innocent strays that have no homes, just because 13 people were killed. do you wanna start clubbling to death homeless people because they don’t have homes!!!! it’s even more worse because dogs can’t do anything to help themselves avoid what they do not even know they are doing. for the people who are killing these dogs, how do you live with your self, how do you sleep at night?????????
i just dont under stand y the goverment lets that shit happen it really makes me mad its like how sick and twizted can you be to do that to any animal people need some serious help specialy in china wtf fur farms beating dogs to death whats next if you see a homeless person shoot them
I think that this is disgusting. And that the people that go out and kill these animals are sick individuals and enjoy killing and beating something to death. China is not the new super country it try’s to portray itself as. Its no better than any other 3rd world country who thinks nothing of brutally killing other living things.
BOYCOTT CHINA!!!!
I live in Canada. There is animla cruelty everywhere, but I what I do not understand is the fact all the horrific cases I hear of are mostly from China! There seems to be a pattern here! Maybe if the asians stopped eating domestic animals, they would have more respect for them. I’m surprised they don’t eat their own excrement – they’ll eat anything. From the Japanese dolphin slaughter and whale killings, to the feline cruelty, to the animals abused for their pelts and now culling dogs…. I think it’s funny that most of the diseases that are killing humans are coming from Asia – Maybe God has a hand in this – It’s payback time for the Asians… let them all die of a flu named after an animal that they abused – what goes around comes around.