Chinese Blogger Rescues 1100 Dogs From Slaughterhouse

A Chinese delicacy is Puppy Paws. And dog meat is served regularly in both restaurants and for family meals. One Chinese blogger intercepted a flatbed truck stacked with cramped dog cages as it was headed to a slaughterhouse. But what can one activist do with so many animals?

From NYDailyNews here by way of UniqueDaily:

Chinese blogger rescues 1,137 dogs intended to be killed for food from crammed flatbed truck
Some of the dogs, which were going to be made into food, were already dead when found

China Daily reported that 1,137 dogs were rescued on Monday from the back of a flatbed truck by a 40-year blogger and volunteer at the Chongqing Small Animal Protection Association (CSAPA).

The 1,137 dogs that had been cramped into cages stacked on top of each other into the back of a flatbed truck were intercepted with the help of a blogger, who goes by the surname Peng, as they were on their way to be made into food.

Peng estimated that about 20 percent of the dogs will likely be adopted by locals since some of them are desirable breeds like chow and husky.

However, many of the remaining dogs face unknown futures as adequate housing is hard to come by.

“But as the country lacks regulation on the slaughter of cats and dogs, dealers will not be punished when they ship dead or sick animals for dinner tables.

Not all cultures are equal. The Chinese culture is changing, however. On the one hand, the increase in wealth allows citizens to pursue other interests, and especially altruistic ones such as animal care. On the other hand, China still allows meat for human consumption to come from animals that do not have to be regulated by health agencies. So what’s worse? Chinese eating dogs or that dogs could have been carcasses scraped off a highway?

And if only a fifth of the animals could be adopted, what do you do with the rest? Onwards to the slaughterhouse? Or humane euthanization? And I have written before how the Chinese kill their unwanted dogs. Not pretty.