China Plans to Slaughter 500,000 Dogs

In a hideously cruel response to an outbreak of rabies in late July, authorities in China ordered the killing of more than 50,000 dogs, 4,000 of whom were immunized against the disease. Officials clubbed many animals to death in the street right before their guardians' eyes, while others suffered gruesome deaths by poisoning or electrocution. Now the Chinese government has issued orders to kill an additional 500,000 dogs. None of these beloved companions will have the benefit of a humane death, because there isn't a single law in China that prevents cruelty to animals.

Please help urge the Chinese government to call of this planned massacre: CLICK HERE to learn more and to write a message to Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong. PETA president, Ingrid Newkirk, will personally deliver all of the letters to Mr. Wenzhong. After you write a message, repost this bulletin so that your friends can write in - the animals need all the voices they can possibly get!

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I appreciate your love of animals and whatnot but don't you think if the Chinese had means to a more effective manner in which to cull the semi-wild dogs, that have ATTACKED humans!, they would use it?

Instead, why not send the Chinese some vets to sterilze at least some of them? Also, we shouldn't be quick to judge the cultures of others by our own standards. Historically semi-wild dogs were viewed by many cultures as a source of mobile, low investment potential food/material resource.

Culling is nothing new and has allowed humans saftey in their areas of habitation. It may not sound very humane but it will provide a quick, effective solution. Additionally, the Chinese have more important problems than animal rights to deal with first, namely human rights violations.

Let's hear a call to work on that first. I guess we'll have to put that joint down. Darn. . .

this year of the dog turned out to be a massacure! wtf! these dogs are being beaten to death. i cant even comprehend how someone can justify that man, havent u seen old yeller

Sure and I loved Old Yellah, Lassie, Benji and all dem.
But come on, China has one of the worst human rights records out there. We can't be fuss'in over some dogs-humans are more important. I know it may sound hard to believe in this day when pets are treated better than human beings, but it's true. The petvertisers out there don want ya to know it but humans are more important than pets. They were man's best friends for a reason. When staration hit human settlements, dogs extended the periods that starvation coudl be survived through.

Let's do something about human rights abuses, then worry about the poochies.

the thing is that this isnt nessecary. a life is a life.

what if you had been born a dog?

the pain and fear these animals will be experiencing will be like a child being chased and beaten to death for no reason 500,000 times. we look the other way because they look different than us and because they dont speak our launguage or whatever.

Why would you choose to defend the people beating animals to death over the victims?

Sadly Euphoric...many people follow a path that, confoundedly, allows for killing to be a birthright.

Thats sick.. wasnt china the same place they put kittens in bottles and let them grow into it... makes me sick how someone could do shit like that realy pisses me off!!! oh well hopefully karma catches up with whoever decided to do this!...

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Originally Posted by bud breath420

Thats sick.. wasnt china the same place they put kittens in bottles and let them grow into it... makes me sick how someone could do shit like that realy pisses me off!!! oh well hopefully karma catches up with whoever decided to do this!...

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I think that was the Japanese. Someone sent me an email with pictures attached. It wasnt a very pretty picture.

If someone tried to club my dog to death before my eyes,
I fear that I wouldn't have the restraint not to rip that person apart.

People make me sick.