Chinese City Orders Pet Dogs Killed

(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.