Thousands of pet cats in Beijing are being abandoned by their owners and sent to die in secretive government pounds as China mounts an aggressive drive to clean up the capital in preparation for the Olympic Games.
Hundreds of cats a day are being rounded and crammed into cages so small they cannot even turn around.
Then they are trucked to what animal welfare groups describe as death camps on the edges of the city.
The cull comes in the wake of a government campaign warning of the diseases cats carry and ordering residents to help clear the streets of them.
But wait. It doesn’t stop there.
Paranoia is so intense that six stray cats -including two pregnant females – were beaten to death with sticks by teachers at a Beijing kindergarten, who feared they might pass illnesses to the children.
And then:
“People don’t want to keep cats in Beijing any more so they abandon them or send them to the compounds.
“When we went inside, we saw about 70 cats being kept in cages stacked one on top of the other in two tiny rooms.
“Disease spreads quickly among them and they die slowly in agony and distress. The government won’t even do the cats the kindness of giving them lethal injections when they become sick. They just wait for them to die.
“It is the abandoned pets that suffer the most and die the soonest. They relied so much on their owners that they can’t cope with the new environment.
“Most refuse to eat or drink and get sick more quickly than the feral cats.”
I can’t go on.
Read the full article if you want to know the terror of China’s official approach to cats.
Cats as pets; cats as wildlife. It’s all the same.
China intends to enact a horrific purge of felines.
It’s already doing so.
Offensive? More than that.
Much more than that.
They recently killed the world’s pets through tainted food and supplies. Now they’re killing their own through violence and sadism.
Boycott all China products. Period. Boycott the Olympics, boycott their crap they sell to other countries, boycott the poison they put on the market for others to consume (whether human or otherwise), and boycott anything else coming from that death trap of a country.
Boycott China in any form.
[via Annie]