Indiscriminate killings of stray dogs in China
That. Official estimates say that there are more than 45 million animals loose throughout the country, which is almost equivalent to the population of Spain.
Who. The population is divided between those who defend the dogs and those who decide to use violence against those that are potentially dangerous.
Because. Officials in several provinces launch a campaign to capture the “uncivilized” races and slaughter them.
Barks for help come from social networks. “They are breaking into houses and kidnapping dogs to take them to the slaughterhouse!” writes a boy from a province in central China. She claims that, on Wednesday morning, two men from her neighborhood committee sneaked into a neighbor's apartment and took her English pointer, a large dog, justifying that it scared the small children of the community.
“Last morning, in my neighborhood, neighborhood patrols went out to kill stray dogs. They also say that if you have a big dog at home, they can come in and take it away from you,” said a girl from Guangzhou, a large city in the south.. “Not all stray dogs are bad, not all people are good. Please stop killing animals,” posted Cya Liu Ya-se, one of China's most famous actresses.
The commotion has already jumped from the networks to the streets. There were a couple of demonstrations led by animal groups who came out with signs asking the authorities to put an end to the indiscriminate killing of stray dogs.. Official estimates say that there are more than 45 million of these animals loose throughout the country, almost like the entire population of Spain.
It all started a few days ago in Chongzhou, a city in the Sichuan region. A black Rottweiler attacked a two-year-old girl, biting off much of her left leg. The dog was loose inside an urbanization. The mother of the calf threw herself on the ground to try to cover her with her body, but the animal dragged her to the side and continued biting the girl.. In the end, a cleaning worker who was passing by managed to scare him away by hitting him with a broom.. The little girl remains admitted to the ICU. He also has a torn kidney and several fractured ribs.
The scene was captured by the urbanization's security cameras.. The video ended up going viral on social media, igniting a heated national debate about what to do with China's stray dogs.. The rottweiler did have an owner, although he ran away after the attack. He was arrested hours later.
Earlier this week, officials in several provinces released statements announcing that they had launched a campaign to capture “uncivilized” stray dogs.. Most will be sacrificed. In a country where there is no law on animal cruelty that offers protection to pets, the announcement was interpreted in their own way by some community workers and neighbors, who have gone out hunting for these dogs, even taking some large ones that They have an owner.
On Weibo, the Chinese brother of. The online protest grew larger. Users, outraged by the massacre, ask for “more humane” measures, such as adoption and castration.
A university in the north of the country fired its security guard because he strangled a stray dog that frequently roamed the campus. At another university, it was the students themselves who beat a dog to death. There were also several witnesses who narrated how the owner of an apartment, taking advantage of the fact that his tenant was not there, entered the house and killed his two dogs.