Dog gone it!!

Seems on January 15, 2012 Chongquing police stopped a truck delivering more than 1,100 dogs to Zhanjiang in Guangdong Province where dog meat is a popular dish. The China Daily newspaper goes on to describe how the dogs were found in a pick up truck with 30 cm cages stacked eight high and with as many as eight dogs in each cage. Most of the dogs were injured or dead having died from suffocation, bone fractures and disease. Not a pretty picture.

The good news is once this horrible situation was made public, Chinese activists raised over $111,000 (US) in the form of cash donations, food and medicine to care for the surviving dogs. But there is a catch as with everything in China. Since the dogs were transported illegally, the animal quarantine station in the district insists the dogs must be removed from the temporary shelter and people's homes where they were placed because the area is a "livestock-breeding free district" and they must be gone by February 22 - tomorrow!!

So there you have it - Jumping from the proverbial pot into the frying pan. It doesn't get much worse than this. If the Chinese people do one thing in the next few years it should be to eliminate dog from their menus - its happening in the urban cities but head into the hinterland and watch out - that next stew you could be eating might just be good old fido!!