Chinese City Orders Pet Dogs Killed

Rabies Fear Is Behind Extreme Measure In District Of Southwestern City Of Chongqing

(AP)  All pet dogs will be killed in a district of the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing as part of an anti-rabies campaign, the government said.

Residents of the city's Wanzhou district have until March 15 to hand over their dogs, according to a directive seen Wednesday on the district's official Web site.

"All the dogs in the area should be killed. A compulsory cull phase will begin after March 16. The forced cull will be carried out by the police," the directive said.

The statement said government guard dogs and those animals kept for research institutions, military and commercial purposes would be spared.

Officials have rounded up dogs in other cities, such as Beijing, as they crack down on strays and unregistered pets.

A spokesman at Wanzhou's Health Department refused to comment about the cull.

Hong Kong's South China Morning Post newspaper on Wednesday quoted a Wanzhou health official, Ran Hua, as saying the move would combat rabies in the area. He said three cases have been reported within the last year, and the paper said one person died last month.

The slaughter of 50,000 dogs for similar reasons last August in Mouding county prompted sharp criticism from the press.

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.

More than 2,000 people die from rabies each year in China.

[mjd16]

This culture has so much to offer yet it lacks such basic logic!! Certainly not all chinese are in favor of this , but where are the voices of opposition to these animals in uniforms killing the innocent???? Are the police just following orders?? Sounds like NAZI Germany!!! Yet most are standing by passively and rewarding this barbarism by allowing these people to benefit by hosting the next Olympic games. Whats wrong here!!!!

[vandlent]

PROTEST THESE BARBARIC CRETINS HERE:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/665021184

[agnim]

"and please stop useing cows as an excuse for us not to care. ive never seen a cow find drugs

Posted by robert_b_p at 10:48 PM : Mar 08, 2007"

Cows provide PRECIOUS MILK!
Got milk? LOL

And cows are not ATTACKING AND BITING AND KILLING Americans the first chance they get, as the dam dogs too often do!

It's not that people do "not care" about the dogs!

It's the irony/hypocrisy that no one seems to care about the countless cows and other animals we slaughter here in America every year; yet like international bullies, we are up the Chinese behinds for behaving like Americans -- KILL ANIMALS TO SUIT THEIR PURPOSE!

[robert_b_p]

Please, if all you feel when some one is beating the hell out of dogs in the street is that it is humane, maybe you should ask the chinese if they can beat the hell out of you to knock some sense into you, Because buddy you dont have any common sense or mercy, or intellegence etc. and please stop useing cows as an excuse for us not to care. ive never seen a cow find drugs, or keep knuckle heads like you away from property. ive never heard of a dog having the title of mans best friend either. you need a lesson in life, you will probably get it later from someone with a big stick for you.

[dlight8]

Inhumane means the opposite of humane. Inhumane means cruel. It is not used only in reference to humans. The Chinese are being very cruel in clubbing innocent family pets to death. They are being very cruel.

[agnim]

"All measures that can be taken to remedy this unreasonable and inhumane solution

Posted by dlight8 at 11:21 AM : Mar 08, 2007"

"inhumane"? Don't make me laugh.

Dogs ARE NOT humans!
Cows are more humans and HARMLESS TOO; yet we slaughter millions every year.
Get a clue will ya!

What we really need are the Chinese sticks in the US; too many dogs have been attacking and killing people on account of these silly dog maes who value humans less than mere dogs.

What the Chinese are doing IS humane!
THE CHINESE ARE OUT TO PROTECT HUMANS -- THE PRIORITY!

Moreover, a lot of those dogs will wind up in Chinese cuisines. LOL

Not a meat eater myself, I'm laughing at the irony of how different cultures react to common circumstances.

[dlight8]

The mass killing of family dogs in China is unnecessary and cruel. It must be stopped! It causes a lot of needless physical suffering for the dogs and emotional suffering for the owners. The problem can be solved simply by rabies vaccinations. We must take a stand! and not sit by idly allowing this to happen. All measures that can be taken to remedy this unreasonable and inhumane solution to a problem in China must be made known through the media. Then we can better avail ourselves of means to put an end to this cruelty.

[gossimer]

Why the h e l l do some people think this is so d a m n e d funny? It's just plain STUPID AND CRUEL!!!

If the Chinese cannot develop an inoculation program against rabies, they aren't as smart as they think they are! Makes me wonder what ELSE they don't have inoculations for! Is it any wonder that so many illnesses START in their country for?

During WWII, the Japanese tried to develop a more potent form of rabies to destroy the Chinese and others. Perhaps their efforts were successful after all! The next thing you know, there won't be any animal life left in China, not even Pandas!

And we do so much TRADE with these people? Time to BOYCOTT China and their imports! Bring industries and jobs BACK HOME to our OWN workers!!!

[gunnerv1]

Don't forget that the American Plains Indians kept dogs as a food source. The Inuit will eat their dogs if they have too (I would too, but I prefer Chow) LOL. I really don't care what the Red Chinese do. The French eat horse meat. and by the way, what ever you do, don't buy/eat Taco's in Mexico (dog/cat/rat) meat du juor.

[dallison7]

Meanwhile, in the United States of America secret trials are scheduled to start shortly, the government has announced that citizens phone conversations, email and mail may be examined without warrants. Federal prosecutors who failed to follow stricly the orders of the right wing leadership have been removed and replaced with more loyal party members.

[robert_b_p]

Your referring to Catholics being trash in my neck of the woods would get you a fat lip, your suppose to be making a comment about the dogs getting killed not about your stupid retarded opinion on religion. How pathetic you are. You don%u2019t feel bad yet? There is something called humane and in-humane and killing 50.000 dog%u2019s sucks. As for cows getting killed that%u2019s the way it is, but they are killed humanely not clubbed in the street. i am referring to the earlyer comment.

[gunownerdan]

What do you expect from a country that forces its people to have abortions and then uses the aborted fetuses for industrial purposes?
There is a rabies vaccine here in America and China can make basically everything we have.
There is no excuse for this tyranny!
Hopefully the Chinese people will wise up(and rise up) maybe when they realize there is no more dog meat?

[outraged3]

This is an outrage! People such as these are the very reason that hell enlarges itself daily! If animal extermination must occur for VALID reasons then there is certainly a more humane way to accomplish this other than to beat ANY animal to death and have them suffer a long agonizing dealth! Do they kill their children this way too? An army should rise up against people of this nature and destroy them-THEY ARE THE REAL THREAT TO SOCIETY! God will destroy all who are wicked! They will pay!

[agnim]

"It's called a Rabies shot.

Posted by blewvelvet at 09:26 PM : Mar 07, 2007"

Right oh!

Those blows ARE called rabies shots! LOL



I'm still amazed that CBS would post a picture like that. It leaves little to the imagination; and I know for sure that many American dog sweethearts wouldn't have wanted to imaging countless dogs getting the daylights whacked out of them with big sticks.

[agnim]

"Hinduism is pretty disgusting, I mean come on, they follow those cows around and collect and drink their urine. Now that's disgusting....

Posted by bildooreilly at 11:02 PM : Mar 07, 2007"

Actually kissing a dog that is always licking at its dirty bahind is more disgusting.

And some Americans even screw their dogs.
We don't think a people can get more disgusting than kissing and *** dogs.

I think the Chinese need to bring those dam clubs to America; they would surely cure a lot of Americans of their psychoses with dogs.

Also, Americans drink loads of cow's milk. Drinking cow urine doesn't seem that much different.

Moreover, cows are vegetarians. They are a lot cleaner than dogs that eat all kinds of chit! LOL

[bildooreilly]

Hinduism is pretty disgusting, I mean come on, they follow those cows around and collect and drink their urine. Now that's disgusting.... you can call it culturalism all you want, you're some sick freaks. Take all the "isms" you want buddhism, cabbalism, hinduism, catholicism, it's all the same trash.


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By the way, the Indians feel similarly about Americans as you feel about the Chinese, Blid, for SLAUGHTERING ALL THOSE NICE AND HARMLESS COWS FOR STEAKS, ETC!
Posted by Agnim at 07:41 PM : Mar 07, 2007
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[bildooreilly]

I've been all around this world, I've filled up a complete passport with entry and exit stamps when I used to work for the government. It doesn't "freak" me out. I do however think it's pretty cruel and don't find it funny at all that people are being forced to give up their animals to be clubbed to death. Move to china you commmie scum.

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LOL

Freaks you out, eh, Bild? LOL

That's one of the challenges of trying to conquer the world and mixing cultures -- different values will freak out the ignorant/faint of heart.

Look on the bright side, will ya: A lot of those dogs will likely wind up as Chinese dog soup, and barbecue ribs, etc. LOL
Posted by Agnim at 07:37 PM : Mar 07, 2007
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[gunownerdan]

This story is just more proof that when a government has a monopoly on weapons and the civilians are unarmed and defenseless, that government can and will do anything it wants to do.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Thank goodness for our SECOND AMENDMENT(and the rest of our Bill Of Rights!)!

"Tyrants mistrust the people, hence they deprive them
of arms."
Aristotle

"To disarm the people is the best and most effective
way to enslave them."
George Mason

"Americans have the right and advantage of being
armed -- unlike the citizens of other countries whose
governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
James Madison

[Kimbakat]

It's called a Rabies shot. There is NO excuse as to why the humans died of it. And there is no excuse for beating a dog to death. Why don't they test the dog first before they kill it. Can you imagine how many healthy home-owned pets they demanded to kill without testing???? What if they decided to do that with their own people? Oh, I forgot these communists already do that with their own people!!!

I don't think there is any thing to LOL about in this article.

Just remember, do unto others as you would have done unto you...it's the golden universal rule! Karma is a ***!!

[agnim]

Picture of the Day!

Talking about beating a dead dog. LOL

Is CBS trying to break the hearts of American dog lovers? LOL