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Justice For Pet Dog, Brutally Killed By Police, Langzhong, China!!

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Why this is important

On 4th March 2014, police in Langzhong City, Sichuan, China, brutally killed a pet dog belonging to a homeless man. The killing was done during the day near a primary school for no reason at all and is totally unacceptable. The dog was still chained when the police forcefully removed it from it's owner who could do nothing but watch while his companion was beaten to death with sticks and shovels in front of him.
The police later issued a statement defending their actions, saying that the dog's presence might have posed a threat to human safety but this just shows the ignorance and cruelty involved in their actions and shows the world how unfeeling they are. The people in charge in the relevant departments of the government now need to show the world that they condemn this killing, along with Chinese citizens and people around the world, by implementing the Small Animal Protection Law.

Groups on Weibo are condemning the killing and petitions have been started.

Help Chinese activists and animal lovers get protection for their animals.
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They kill people the same way .. Tibet??  Why would dogs get better treatment unless they belong to a political or business boss.  Life is cheap in China and always has been.

This sort of thing goes on there on a daily basis, some for no reason like this one, and some because they think a tortured dog tastes better than an untortured dog. They put poison in their food and kill unsuspecting people. They abort and/or kill newborns because they are girls. All in all, China is a horrible place.

Let us not get too self righteous or forget the history of the USA.  China is not a good place to be an animal or human compared to the USA or Europe.  I doubt the chickens or hogs see a lot of difference though from their perspective and the police in the USA have killed quite a lot of dogs needlessly with handguns .. when all you have is a hammer, everything begins to look like a nail.  The Passenger Pigeon and the Bison are but two examples of Americans kindness to animals.  Then there was that time in our USA history in which we starved Native Americans to death and our soldiers clubbed Native American children with rifle butts.  Then there is that thing called slavery and now the "war on terror" with death from above for civilians in Pakistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan from USA bombers, missiles and drones.  I doubt the Russians see a lot of difference between invading Crimea and the USA invading Iraq .. both were unprovoked acts of aggression.  Then there is this thing called global warming and the USA and China are blood brothers in helping destroy the ecology of our planet which will likely lead to death for many of Earth's residents be they human, plant, or animal.

@  mentayflor .
Sure the method of culling the dog is cruel , Here the majority of police are not armed.
The dog had been agressive towards the school children . The dog had no rabies , Parvo , distemper , hepatitis vaccinations.  .
How would the owner pay if the children where bitten ? 
How many healthy dogs are killed every year in the USA and the UK , Europe ect ect ? 

@ bubbabooboo 
   Have you been to Tibet ? 
   If it was not for the Chinese goverment  , The majority of the population would still be serfs .
   Life here is not cheap  ,Life is getting better and better every year . 
   My dogs here have there own fridge freezer , washing machine , go out at least 3 times per day . Only time they go into there kennel is ,  if we have visitors who are scared . Each dog costs around 180 USD per month for the up keeping excl equipment bought from europe . 
   Emissions 2010 China 26.43 %  , USA 17.33 % 
   China has around 4.3 times more people 

 

@ greyhoundgirl 
   How about the healthy dogs in the west getting killed ? 
   Switzerland still eat dog , Other countrys too ....
   Food laws are getting stricter and stricter , If you are caught selling unhealthy food you get banned from selling food stuffs . If you have poisened someone ,,, you get a needle in your arm .
  China and India have around 37 million excess men each .With the exception of Saudi Arabia , all other G20 countries have either more woman than men or the number are almost equal .

Have you been to China ? How do you know if it is a horrible place ?  
Are you a armchair tourist ? 
www.animalsaustralia.org/issues/greyhound-racing.php


 

Lanhua .. BS .. $180 per month is more than many people in rural China and Tibet get to feed themselves and in some cases an entire family for a month.  Just as in the USA the rich have gotten richer in China during the last 20 years as the USA exported US jobs and industrial pollution to China.  China is an environmental mess.  So you are one of the richer winners in the Chinese governments partial conversion of the economy to more capitalism.  Many people in China are better off but many are still living in deplorable conditions and Tibet is an example of lies and Chinese imperial ambitions.  The only nation that has more inequality between the rich and the poor than the USA is China.  It is the shame of both the USA and China that both nations have become more like each other over the last 30 years.

Lanhua, are you justifying the brutallity of the chinese police against an undefenceless dog? if yes, that does not speacks well of chinese people and they culture.

@ Mentayflor
People who live in glass houses should't throw stones .


71% of domestic violence victims report that their abuser also targeted their animal (Ascione, 1997). USA

On average every 30 seconds someone in England and Wales dials 0300 1234 999 - the RSPCA's 24-hour cruelty line - for help. In 2012 we received 1,163,428 phone calls.  UK

The RSPCA is Australia’s oldest, largest and most trusted animal welfare organisation. With this privileged position comes great responsibility. This year we received 126,673 animals in our 39 animal shelters, across the country. - See more at: http://www.rspca.org.au/facts/annual-statistics#sthash.DAguwxJa.dpuf
 

About 2.7 million healthy, adoptable cats and dogs—about one every 11 seconds—are put down in U.S. shelters each year. Often these animals are the offspring of cherished family pets. Spay/neuter is a proven way to reduce pet overpopulation, ensuring that every pet has a family to love them.
 

Last year, around 8000 healthy dogs were killed in the UK. They died afraid and alone - unclaimed strays, tossed aside like unwanted toys. Britain's throw away society has gone mad.

In Australia, we have a system that perpetuates a cycle of breeding to excess, impulse purchasing of pets and then quiet killing of the surplus 250,000 mainly healthy cats and dogs year after year. (We kill more than 57,351 every year in New South Wales alone...see link in left menu for full statistics.)
 

Lanhua, Chinese people boils the puppies alive. Rips the fur from live rabbits, cats and dogs, tortures bears in bear farming. For more than 1,000 years the use of tiger parts has been included in the traditional chinese  medicine regimen. there are chinese dogs restorants and they believe that if the dog is tortured before of the killing, the meat is aphrodisiac Etc etc. It is a barbaric culture and you cannot justify those things by saying that in other country they do not respect the life and right of other animals. Is it a moral response?

@ Mentaflor
What country are you from ? 

While the brown bear's range has shrunk and it has faced local extinctions, it remains listed as a least concern species by the IUCN with a total population of approximately 200,000. As of 2012, this and the American black bear are the only bear species not classified as threatened by the IUCN. However, the Californian, North African (Atlas bear), and Mexican subspecies were hunted to extinction in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Currently, it is estimated by The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) that at least one tiger is killed for use in traditional Chinese medicine every day. The main countries that are involved in the illegal trade of tiger parts are The United States of America, Great Britain, China, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. Japan has the biggest market currently and, although the technical laws forbid such trade, there are loopholes for items that contain traces of tiger products (such as powders and pills, for example).
 

• Forced chemical exposure in toxicity testing, which can include oral force-feeding, forced inhalation, skin or injection into the abdomen, muscle, etc.
• Exposure to drugs, chemicals or infectious disease at levels that cause illness, pain and distress, or death
• Genetic manipulation, e.g., addition or “knocking out” of one or more genes
• Ear-notching and tail-clipping for identification
• Short periods of physical restraint for observation or examination
• Prolonged periods of physical restraint
• Food and water deprivation
• Surgical procedures followed by recovery
• Infliction of wounds, burns and other injuries to study healing
• Infliction of pain to study its physiology and treatment
• Behavioural experiments designed to cause distress, e.g., electric shock or forced swimming
• Other manipulations to create “animal models” of human diseases ranging from cancer to stroke to depression
• Killing by carbon dioxide asphyxiation, neck-breaking, decapitation, or other means

It is estimated that more than 115 million animals worldwide are used in laboratory experiments every year. But because only a small proportion of countries collect and publish data concerning animal use for testing and research, the precise number is unknown. For example, in the United States, up to 90 percent of the animals used in laboratories (purpose-bred rats, mice and birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles and invertebrates) are excluded from the official statistics, meaning that figures published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture are no doubt a substantial underestimate.

Within the European Union, more than 12 million animals are used each year, with France, Germany and the United Kingdom being the top three animal using countries. British statistics reflect the use of more than 3 million animals each year, but this number does not include animals bred for research but killed as “surplus” without being used for specific experimental procedures. Although these animals still endure the stresses and deprivation of life in the sterile laboratory environment, their lives are not recorded in official statistics. HSI believes that complete transparency about animal use is vital and that all animals bred, used or killed for the research industry should be included in official figures.