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500 CATS RESCUED in CHINA! 500 cats crammed in trucks…

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Volunteers Celebrate Saving 500 Cats from Meat Trade

 

Volunteers in China are weary but grateful as they provide care for 500 cats rescued rescued from the meat trade. These cats were saved by chance when a police officer pulled the vehicle over in the city of  Xuzhou after noticing it had out-of-town license plates.

Office Sun, who had been doing routine inspections along the roadway, began investigating when he heard crying coming from the back of a large agricultural vehicle. The driver told him that he was carrying rabbits, but when the office inspected the burlap bags in the back of the truck, he found hundreds of cats struggling for air and severely dehydrated.

A long standoff ensued as word went out to local animal rescue volunteers who began negotiating for the release of the cats. Although they had no legal standing to seize the animals, they refused to let the vehicle continue on. Haggling for custody of the cats stretched well into evening before the driver finally agreed to accept the equivalent of $800 for the cats.

Xuzhou Animal Rescuer Centre now has 1,000 animals in their shelter after this mass intervention. Some volunteers are reportedly getting ill from exhaustion, working around the clock for the cats, but they are determined to bring peace to these survivors. While some of the cats are settling in, others are still petrified of human contact. Their recovery will be long and the adoption process painstakingly slow.

Today the Harmony Fund has made a donation to help in the care of these cats as part of it’s year end international campaign Operation Holiday Kitty which will provide aid to an array of cat rescue efforts across the planet.

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/volunteers-celebrate-saving-500-cats-from-meat-trade.html#ixzz2DbRYpuAU

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Canada: Gatineau Police Shooting Frightend Cow

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Gatineau Police shooting frightened cow
Photo:  http://www.cbc.ca/news

On Thursday, two cows escaped from a trailer destined for a Quebec slaughterhouse. 

According to a CBC report, both animals were shot by Gatineau police with one of them shot at least 10 times.

Disturbing video of the event, recorded by a by-stander, was posted by CBC.  The video shows numerous police cars blocking roadways as a young steer is seen running along the road.  We see an officer raise his gun and hear six shots ring out as the steer slows to a walk.  The voice of the videographer can be heard saying: “What are they shooting at it for?  That’s not really a gun, is it?!”  The steer continues walking along the roadway and is cornered by four police cars with sirens on.  An officer exits his car.  The videographer is again heard saying: “They didn’t shoot him, did they?” At that moment, standing directly in front of the now-still steer, the officer raises his gun and aims at the head of the steer at close range.  A shot rings out and the steer slowly begins to limp away with his left fore leg raised.  Another shot rings out, followed by two more.  The videographer screams: “OH NO!!” as the steer hobbles off screen.  The video ends.

The shock and horror of this videographer represents the view of the vast majority of Canadians.  The animals presented no real threat, yet they were violently and inhumanely killed by the police.  Had these officers shown this same treatment to a dog, they would be facing animal cruelty charges.

This horrific scene captured for all to see reflects what our inspectors see on a daily basis – government-sanctioned and government-inflicted cruelty toward animals.

How can we expect better from our livestock industry if our government officials hold the same attitudes?  Until those in positiions of authority begin viewing animals as the thinking, sentient beings that they are, more tragedies like this one will occur. 

Please, write a polite letter to Gatineau Police Chief Mario Harel expressing your dismay at the lack of compassion of Gatineau police officers. Remind them that farm animals are sentient beings who experience fear and distress and feel pain.  Ask that protocols be put in place to ensure a more humane response to future incidents with farm animals.

Letters can be sent via the internet through this on-line form

or mailed to:

Chief Mario Harel
Gatineau Police Department
590 Boul Greber
Gatineau, Quebec
J8T 8B8

Thank you all for standing with us in defending Canada’s farm animals!
 

    I am so frightened by the shooting around in the whole world!
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