Animal lovers save dogs from chop
AFTER about 15 hours of negotiation, 520 dogs were saved early yesterday in Beijing after animal lovers paid 115,000 yuan (US$16,420) to buy the dogs from vendor, Beijing Evening News reported yesterday. The canines were thus saved the chop and avoided ending up on restaurant tables.
The dogs were being transported in a truck from central China's Henan Province to northeast Jilin Province yesterday. The truck was held up on the highway after volunteers learnt about it and the rescued dogs were later sent to a stray animals care center in Beijing. The newspaper reported that some of them died on the way to Jilin.
The truck had an iron cage that was 2 meters high. It was divided into four layers with each layer of the cage crammed with more than 100 dogs. Most of them were street dogs but there were some pet dogs as well, including Siberian huskies and golden retrievers. Some of the pet dogs had the patch of a strap around their neck, the newspaper reported. More photos here (Dagbladet)