50,000 dogs slaughtered
By Gary Bogue
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006 at 12:49 pm in dogs, Pets, Rabies.
According to a story on Aug. 1 by Associated Press Writer Christopher Bodeen, "a county in southwestern China has killed as many as 50,000 dogs in a government campaign ordered after three people died from rabies."
I guess they figured beating the dogs to death was easier than organizing a rabies prevention program and vaccinating the dogs before they had a chance to get rabies.
Such a program of course would also have prevented those three people from dying from rabies in the first place.
Next time somebody gets rabies, I guess they’ll just go out and kill more dogs.
Curious logic. Strange world.
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August 2nd, 2006 at 7:03 pm
This article made me sick!! What a CRUEL thing to do. The article said that dogs were taken from their owners as they walked & beaten to death on the spot…..then people (and I use the term lightly) were sent to neighborhoods making enough noise so that the dogs barked & in doing so brought the killers to them, where they too, were beaten. I hugged my dog a little tighter after that.
Pat in Antioch
August 2nd, 2006 at 11:46 pm
what really surprised me is they offered money to the owners of dogs for their dogs prior to the mass culling but wouldnt spend money on vaccinations.
August 3rd, 2006 at 5:03 am
As I said, it’s a strange world out there in never-never-land. /Gary