Authorities close dog death factory
By Wang Xiang |
June 19, 2010, Saturday
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A SLAUGHTERHOUSE that killed more than 300 dogs every day has been shut down in northeast China's Changchun City.
The slaughterhouse was set up in Sijianfang Village two years ago and received two or three truckloads of dogs every day.
The dogs were clubbed to death and every pet dog in the village wailed incessantly while the slaughterhouse was in operation, the local Xin Wen Hua Bao newspaper quoted a villager as saying yesterday.
Being delivered from outside the village, the dogs were already in a sorry state in cramped cages before they arrived at the slaughterhouse, the paper said.
Some pregnant dogs gave birth to their cubs on the truck and the cubs were thrown away as garbage. Some villagers picked the cubs up but rarely any survived.
It was like a scene from a horror movie when the slaughterers were at work, said a senior villager surnamed Zhang.
The killers would hold the dogs by using clamps around their necks and then batter them to death with thick clubs.
The dogs were then thrown into a large boiling pot where they were skinned and had their hair removed. The disgusting odor produced could be smelled miles from the site, said Zhang. The dogs' blood was directly poured into the drains.
The workers then removed the intestines from the skinned dogs before they sent them to buyers.
The dog meat was sold at up to 16 yuan (US$2.3) a kilogram to restaurants and grocery markets. The paper said that business was good at the slaughterhouse.
Local Animal Health Inspection authority shut down the slaughterhouse on Thursday, citing its poor sanitary condition. They didn't say where the dogs were from or whether the site would be moved out of the village.
The slaughterhouse was situated right behind a dog farm. The owner of the farm, surnamed Han, said at least a dozen of his dogs were spooked by the horrible screeching from the slaughterhouse. Han's dogs were raised for competition, and none of them dared venture outdoors after the slaughterhouse moved in.
Han wrote letters of protest to the slaughterhouse but never received any answer.
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