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Online cat crusaders save pets from Chinese chefs
Last Updated: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 2:27 PM ET
More than 800 cats were spared futures as feline meatballs destined for Chinese dinner tables, a newspaper reported Tuesday, after animal rescuers raised enough money to buy back the entire truckload of cats in a span of hours.
The China Daily newspaper said a well-known cat crusader from Shanghai, Duo Zirong, alerted police to halt the delivery on Friday as the shipment was en route to a slaughterhouse in Guangdong province.
Cat meat is a delicacy in the province and can be sold at 15 yuan ($2.08 Cdn) per kilogram.
Duo, along with her band of rescuers, blocked the truck in a parking lot in a Shanghai suburb for hours. Meanwhile, other activists mobilized support online, asking fellow cat lovers to donate funds to save them.
Prominent cat rescuer Huo Puyang, Duo's mother-in-law, said the cat dealers showed police "obviously forged" vaccination and inspection papers, indicating they were from a farm in Anhui province. She said the cats were in fact taken from the streets, and many were owned by Duo.
"The police believed them and would not allow anybody to take the cats, which were 'private property,' unless we paid," Huo said.
Several hours later, the group was able to pool together 10,000 yuan ($1,377.87 Cdn) — enough to buy all the cats. The group plans to set up a cat gallery on an adoption website and find new homes for the animals.
Last Updated: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 2:27 PM ET
More than 800 cats were spared futures as feline meatballs destined for Chinese dinner tables, a newspaper reported Tuesday, after animal rescuers raised enough money to buy back the entire truckload of cats in a span of hours.
The China Daily newspaper said a well-known cat crusader from Shanghai, Duo Zirong, alerted police to halt the delivery on Friday as the shipment was en route to a slaughterhouse in Guangdong province.
Cat meat is a delicacy in the province and can be sold at 15 yuan ($2.08 Cdn) per kilogram.
Duo, along with her band of rescuers, blocked the truck in a parking lot in a Shanghai suburb for hours. Meanwhile, other activists mobilized support online, asking fellow cat lovers to donate funds to save them.
Prominent cat rescuer Huo Puyang, Duo's mother-in-law, said the cat dealers showed police "obviously forged" vaccination and inspection papers, indicating they were from a farm in Anhui province. She said the cats were in fact taken from the streets, and many were owned by Duo.
"The police believed them and would not allow anybody to take the cats, which were 'private property,' unless we paid," Huo said.
Several hours later, the group was able to pool together 10,000 yuan ($1,377.87 Cdn) — enough to buy all the cats. The group plans to set up a cat gallery on an adoption website and find new homes for the animals.
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