Protestors decry slaughter of pet dogs

[judaspriestess]

BEIJING - At least 200 protesters lined a chilly Beijing street on Saturday to denounce a government crackdown on pet dogs that has the city’s usually passive citizens crying murder.

“Arbitrary slaughter is disgraceful,” read one sign held up by the demonstrators who gathered in front of the city zoo.

“Legislate to protect our pets,” they yelled

The protesters, many holding up toy fluffy dogs, were decrying government moves to restrict the number of pooches by enforcing a 35-centimeter height limit on dogs and confiscating and culling oversized ones, said one of the organizers, who asked to be known only by her surname, Wu.

For her and others the struggle against the pooch purge has become a struggle in miniature against arbitrary power and Chinese people’s powerlessness before faceless officialdom.

“Raising a dog is a right, not a privilege,” said Wu, who furtively keeps five dogs and runs a pet store. “But now our rights are under attack and we can only take out our dogs in the dead of night.”

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15664083/

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[Ptah]

1. And closer to home: Dogs Gone

From the Tucson Weekly:

Dogs Gone

A man with a questionable past was paid to take more than 150
animals from Tucson Greyhound Park--and then they disappeared

By SAXON BURNS
Dogs Gone
Jason Swift
Ralph is a retired racer housed at an Arizona Greyhound Rescue kennel.
Dogs Gone
Susan Netboy, president of the Greyhound Protection League, said a private
investigator took this picture of Richard Favreau on one of his greyhound hauls.
Greyhound lovers go to great lengths to find homes for racing dogs that have
reached the end of their careers. So it's especially heartbreaking for them
that between 150 and 200 dogs--ostensibly bound for adoption--seem to have
disappeared into thin air.

Tucson Greyhound Park reportedly paid a Colorado man $150 a head to haul
the dogs outside the state in order to place them with adoption groups.
Over a six-month period starting about a year ago, Richard Favreau,
who owns a greyhound breeding and training facility just outside
Colorado Springs, made numerous trips to Tucson to load hounds into
his white pickup truck and trailer.

Each time, he drove back to Colorado with the dogs, but what became of
them after that is anyone's guess at this point. During two hearings
with Arizona authorities, Favreau was reportedly unable to produce
papers detailing where the vast majority of the dogs had gone,
and now he's at the center of a story that is receiving national attention.


http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=oid:88954


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[judaspriestess]

2. oh and this jerk also breeds the dogs

for profit?? I hope he rots in hell or better yet take his effing business away and send the asshole to jail

on edit:grr: :mad:

[judaspriestess]

3. kick for the love of our pets