Dog Lovers?

[GHoosdum]

Apparently, humane pet treatment is beyond some ways of thinking... and so is vaccination?
Chinese county clubs to death 50,000 dogs. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14139027/)

Just wow. :wtf:

“We are urging everyone to actively boycott — not a word we use lightly — anything from China given the bludgeoning killing of thousands of dogs,” PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said.

Well that's a tall order. I guess that means that PETA is going to stop shopping at Wal Mart?

[profdlp]

Originally Posted by article
“We are urging everyone to actively boycott — not a word we use lightly — anything from China given the bludgeoning killing of thousands of dogs,” PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said.
Proof that no one - not even PETA - can be wrong all of the time.

That poor dog in the picture accompanying the article looks a lot like my little dogs. I wish I hadn't seen that. :(

[Nosferatu]

I don't even want to click the link, the description is enough... :bawling:

[Nightwolf]

F*cking Bast*rds.

[Thrax]

That's disgusting. Granted, I am viewing their approach to such an animal through Western eyes, it is still disgusting.

[bothered]

I don't like dogs at all, don't want them anywhere near me or my family. As much as I don't like them I hate to see any animal treated cruely though. The article claims 70% of the population owns dogs and rabies is a problem so yeah, they have to do something, but clubbing them? They're not baby seals after all.

[GHoosdum]

The article claims 70% of the population owns dogs and rabies is a problem so yeah, they have to do something, but clubbing them? They're not baby seals after all.

;D Perfect!

[Zanthian]

"Dogs being walked were seized from their owners and beaten to death on the spot, the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported. "
"Owners were offered 63 cents per animal to kill their own dogs before the teams were sent in, they said."

This is just sad...

[primesuspect]

So wait.... I turn in Snuffie... :range:

63 cents..... not bad for a stinking wiggly mess of a dog.......

[jradmin]

Makes you want to sieze a Chinese official while he's out walking and beat him to death...doesn't it.

I would pay the US government to come after my Ferrets. No stories of massacres have ever been told that would compair to the one that would ensue outside my house.

[profdlp]

So wait.... I turn in Snuffie... :range:

63 cents..... not bad for a stinking wiggly mess of a dog.......
I'll give you ten bucks for him. :)

[airbornflght]

Ill give 10.91, lets have an auction.

[RWB]

Does anyone else at least see the humor in boycotting anything made in china?

[GHoosdum]

Yes, hence my "stop shopping at Wal Mart" comment.

[RWB]

Yes, hence my "stop shopping at Wal Mart" comment.
But no one else :crazy:

[airbornflght]

We might as well not buy anything, becaues 80% of the crap we buy was made over there.

You cant blame them though, if it was between a rabies outbreak and killing the dogs, what would you do if you were the leader, your people would have to come before any animals, as gruesome as it is, if the leader stood by idly, and there was a rabies outbreak, people would blame him and ask why he didnt do anything. I've come to see the positions of authority arent that great, because when there are tough decisions to be made, people are going to blame you and be pissed at you no matter what.

[GHoosdum]

Alternatively, if the government had simply distributed rabies vaccines, it would have avoided the needless violent slaughter of 50,000 pets.

[airbornflght]

true.

but the people should take it upon themselves to vaccinate their dogs.

It is not all too different from what we do in the us, here, the government does not distribute the vaccinations.

[Armo]

but we arent communists

[GHoosdum]

I wonder if the Chinese government banned leishi from viewing Short-Media now that we've posted a thread that's critical about China?

[airbornflght]

probably.

[GHoosdum]

Here we go again! (http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/08/04/china.dogs.ap/index.html?section=cnn_topstories)

[airbornflght]

On the other hand, disease is natures population control, so maybe nature is saying something here about both the dogs and people in china:vimp:

not to draw any conclusions;)