China slaughtered 50,000 dogs

[michaelpush]

SHANGHAI, China -- 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.

[graduate student]

1. yes...

instead of checking the dogs for rabies, they just decided to kill them all.

i mean at least, no matter how many anti-animal people there are in the US, that we are above that sort of thing.

Can you imagine that for every rabies outbreak in one county, the government would kill half the dogs in your state?

crazy

[melv]

7. I agree with your outrage, however

the only way to test a dog for rabies is to cut off it's head and send it to the lab for testing, if things haven't changed. Or, they could also put dogs under rabies observation, like they do here in the states. This takes about a week. Animals with rabies will show outward signs within 7 days of onset.

[chastitybeaverhausen]

2. Keep in mind...

This is the same culture that abandon or kill infants if they are not born male. Looks like it's not a good thing to be born a girl or a dog in China.

[Beaverhausen]

3. China orders mass slaughter of dogs

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060804/ap_on_re_as/china_dogs_killed

China orders mass slaughter of dogs
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press Writer
Fri Aug 4, 1:08 PM ET


SHANGHAI, China - For the second time in days, Chinese authorities have ordered a mass slaughter of dogs to curb a rabies outbreak — drawing criticism from animal lovers but also support from many who say it's the only way to contain a disease that kills more than 2,000 Chinese a year.

Officials in the eastern city of Jining plan to kill all dogs within three miles of areas where rabies has been found, the official Xinhua News Agency said Friday.

The measure came in response to the deaths of 16 people from rabies in Jining in the last eight months, Xinhua said. It didn't say when the slaughter would begin or how the animals would be killed. It said the city had about 500,000 dogs.

Rabies cases are on the rise in China, with 2,651 reported deaths from the disease in 2004, the last year for which data was available. Only 3 percent of the country's dogs are vaccinated against rabies.

Last week, a county in southwestern Yunnan province killed 50,000 dogs, many of them beaten to death in front of their owners, after three people died of rabies.

The slaughters have outraged animal rights groups, who call them cruel and a sign of government incompetence in dealing with rabies, an often fatal disease that attacks the nervous system but which can be warded off with a series of injections.

"I think this is completely insane," said Zhang Luping, founder of the Beijing Human and Animal Environmental Education Center.

more at the link

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. Sickening.

Some days I wish I could resign from the human race.

[michaelpush]

4. Dogs being walked were seized..

"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."
story link:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-china02.html?click

[nam78_two]

5. Good God!

:cry:

Is there any way to help, donate, anything :(