50,000 dogs slaughtered
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.
Posted on Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
Under: dogs, Pets, Rabies | 3 Comments »