China Massacres 50,000 Dogs in Anti-Rabies Campaign

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SHANGHAI, China (Aug. 2) - China slaughtered 50,000 dogs in a government-ordered crackdown after three people died of rabies, sparking unusually pointed criticism in state media Tuesday and an outcry from animal rights activists.

Health experts said the brutal policy pointed to deep weaknesses in the health care infrastructure in China, where only 3 percent of dogs are vaccinated against rabies and more than 2,000 people die of the disease each year.

The five-day slaughter in Mouding county in Yunnan province in southwestern China ended Sunday and spared only military guard dogs and police canine units, state media reported.

Dogs being walked were seized from their owners and beaten to death on the spot, the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported. Led by the county police chief, killing teams entered villages at night creating noise to get dogs barking, then beat the animals to death, the reports said.

Owners were offered 63 cents per animal to kill their own dogs before the teams were sent in, they said.

The killings were widely discussed on the Internet, with both legal scholars and animal rights activists criticizing them as crude and cold-blooded. The World Health Organization said more emphasis needed to be placed on rabies prevention.

The official newspaper Legal Daily blasted the killings as an "extraordinarily crude, cold-blooded and lazy way for the government to deal with epidemic disease."

"Wiping out the dogs shows these government officials didn't do their jobs right in protecting people from rabies in the first place," the newspaper, published by the central government's Politics and Law Committee, said in an editorial in its online edition.

In an editorial, the official Xinhua News Agency said the killings wouldn't have been necessary if the local government had been more attentive, but called the slaughter "the only way out of a bad situation."


"If they'd discovered this earlier, they could have vaccinated the dogs and ... controlled the outbreak," the editorial said.

The killings prompted calls for a boycott of Chinese products from the activist group People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

"We are urging everyone to actively boycott - not a word we use lightly - anything from China given the bludgeoning killing of thousands of dogs," PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said.

She said the group had canceled all orders of merchandise it sells that are made in China. Will Wright, at PETA's European office in London, said the orders were worth about $300,000.

"We believe other groups will join us in expressing outrage over the blatant cruelty to animals the world is witnessing," Wright said.

Mouding County officials defended the slaughter in a region where about 360 of the 200,000 residents suffered dog bites this year, with three people reportedly dying of rabies, including a 4-year-old girl.

"With the aim to keep this horrible disease from people, we decided to kill the dogs," Li Haibo, a spokesman for the county government, was quoted as saying by Xinhua.

Calls to county government offices went unanswered Tuesday. Located in mountains about 1,240 miles southwest of Shanghai, Mouding is famed for its Buddhist shrines.

Unlike in the West, where dogs have long been cherished as companions or helpmates, dogs have rarely had an easy time in China. Dog meat is eaten throughout the country, revered as a tonic in winter and a restorer of virility in men.

Following the communist seizure of power in 1949, dog ownership was condemned as a bourgeois affectation and canines were hunted as pests. Attitudes have softened in recent years, although urban Chinese are still subject to strict rules on the size of their pets and must pay steep registration fees.

About 70 percent of rural households now keep dogs, according to the Chinese Center of Disease Control and Prevention, and increased rates of dog ownership have been tied to a surge in the number of rabies cases in recent years. It said there were 2,651 reported deaths from the disease in 2004, the last year for which data was available.

Access to rabies treatment is also highly limited, especially in the countryside, said Dr. Francette Dusan, a World Health Organization expert.

Effective rabies control requires coordinated efforts between human health, animal health and municipal agencies and authorities, Dusan said.

"This has not been pursued adequately to date in China, with most control efforts consisting of purely reactive dog culls," she said.
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If you're not dismayed by this, then there's something wrong with you. This is one of those few occassions that you should agree with PETA. I'm in a really bad mood right now because of this.
 
This is an actual pic of how the slaughter was carried out.

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Oooooohhhh That gets my blood boiling !!!! I wish the Chinese communist soldiers who inwardly and knows they have a righteous heart will machine gun those cruel men to death !!!! My God those innocent dogs !!!!! :mad: :squint: :pissed:
 
Buckdodgers said:
Chinese Leader is no differant than adolph hitler.
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Adolf Hitler loved dogs and in fact he was an avid collector of dogs. He had a family dog I forgot the name of the family dog Adolf had but he did love dogs. I don't know about China though. They should be able to see that dogs are wonderful and a man's best friend.
 
I do know that in China they do eat dog meats... sicko..
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Levonian said:
Round two begins. :mad:
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2,000 Chinese deaths per a year ? That is nothing compared to billion of people living in China. I am truly appalled at the Chinese government, no wonder the Chinese government has a very bad, I mean bad human rights track record. Not only that the Chinese government peresecutes and kills Christians in China also too.
 
It's interesting, you all get fumed about dogs getting beaten up but do you get upset about all the animals who got killed so you would eat them?
 
:roll: :mad: Hurt my service dog, I WILL hurt you . . . how would you like it to occur? Those Chinese really have way too much time on their hands, perhaps they should exercise that energy on something more worthwhile, don't you think?
 
netrox said:
It's interesting, you all get fumed about dogs getting beaten up but do you get upset about all the animals who got killed so you would eat them?
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There is a big difference between animal suffering and lawful hunting. When I hunt deer, I always try to make sure the deer does not suffer. One shot, One kill and if the deer is still kicking around then I will run to the deer and put the deer down for good and not allow the deer to suffer anymore then take the deer meat home. That is lawful hunting. :)

These people on the another hand spend like what 5 to 20 mintunes beating up a poor defenseless innocent dog and it makes me very mad !!!!! Those cruel men ought to be shot !!!!!! :mad:
 
DeafMonkey said:
China beat up the dogs till death?? that turned me off :mad: :mad: :mad:
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Hey DeafMonkey I know this is off topic but I really like your dancing avatar. :) :thumb:
 
Ok George Bush,,Lets Get it over with it...WARN CHINA The next dog they kill the result the Nuclear Missle in Bejing.

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That's really sick. I feel sorry for the dogs, because they can't defend themselves from killin'. :(
Once they kill them all, there won't be any barkin' anymore. No dogs for the children to play with. Soo sad !

I heard there's no birds, either because, of plague/virus' goin' on. I don't know if, that's true. If, it is true, then there's no more birds' singin' either.

FYI, I am a dog lover and it would upset me if, I see anyone hurt the dog. :mad:
 
Doesn't like hurting animal for no reason..
Just take the street dog and placed shelter.. instead whopping dog!
 
I wish there was an Island for Dogs and Another Island 1 mile away for cats.
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CyberRed said:
That's really sick. I feel sorry for the dogs, because they can't defend themselves from killin'. :(
Once they kill them all, there won't be any barkin' anymore. No dogs for the children to play with. Soo sad !

I heard there's no birds, either because, of plague/virus' goin' on. I don't know if, that's true. If, it is true, then there's no more birds' singin' either.

FYI, I am a dog lover and it would upset me if, I see anyone hurt the dog. :mad:
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Yep that's true there's no birds flying in the sky, my aunty told me that when she visit China years ago...

But darn they are sooooo cruel to animals all animals living there... geez.
 
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