Earlier this week more than 1,100 dogs destined for the slaughterhouse in Chongqing were saved from an ignoble ending by a pet-loving Good Samaritan.
More than 1,100 dogs destined for a slaughterhouse were rescued this week by an animal-loving blogger in Chongqing, China, China Daily reported.
The 1,137 dogs that had been cramped into cages stacked on top of each other into the back of a flatbed truck were intercepted with the help of a blogger, who goes by the surname Peng, as they were on their way to be made into food.
"Now we urgently need more professional volunteers to come and take care of the dogs as many people are going home as the Chinese New Year is approaching," Peng told the newspaper.
The dogs were found to be in poor health and deplorable conditions - with some of the unlucky ones already dead in their cages.
By Thursday, 16 dogs had died while another 30 were rushed to a veterinary hospital in Chongqing.
One generous activist volunteered a 1,000 square-foot warehouse to keep the animals as organizers try to deal with the next steps in getting the poor pooches to safety, the paper reported.
Peng estimated that about 20 percent of the dogs will likely be adopted by locals since some of them are desirable breeds like chow and husky.
However, many of the remaining dogs face unknown futures as adequate housing is hard to come by.
"The association plans to rent another building to put other sick dogs under quarantine in the next few days to ensure most dogs can survive,"
Chen Mingcai, head of the Chongqing Small Animal Protection Association, told China Daily.
A number of cases in which domesticated pets became destined for dinner tables have sprung up in China recently due to a lack of legal animal protections, China Daily said.
"But as the country lacks regulation on the slaughter of cats and dogs, dealers will not be punished when they ship dead or sick animals for dinner tables. Therefore, such cruel business cannot be easily banned in the near future," Cai Chunhong, a Beijing lawyer who focuses on animal protection, told the newspaper.
Recently, two animal protection organizations paid the equivalent of $13,000 to a dog trader in Zigong to rescue nearly 800 dogs that were to be delivered to restaurants in the Guangxi Zhuang region, according to the report.
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