A cry for help from animal caring people in China
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Dear animal lovers,
I am writing to ask for your kind support in our efforts to save the poor cats being stolen, sold and killed with boiling water by some evil people in Guangdong province, southern China. I will tell you more about it:
Every day thousands of cats are transported by trucks from many cities in China such as Nanjing, Shanghai, Jiashan, Suzhou, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, Heibei, to eventually reach a hellish destination called Guangzhou. In small wooden cages that do not even allow them to stretch their bodies, the stressed, fearful and desperate cats are on a journey with only one outcome – a horrible death. When they reach Guangzhou, these cats are sold to local markets and restaurants within the city, and then ultimately butchered (horrifically) to be eaten. The cats are stressed purposely because the evil people who eat them believe by stressing the poor animal chemicals are released which supposedly improves the flavor of the flesh. The cats are shown absolutely no mercy or respect, they suffer unimaginably from beginning to end. Cages holding the cats are tossed from trucks onto the pavement causing terrible injuries and suffering. Cats are intelligent and highly sensitive souls and will suffer enormously, both physically and mentally. This mass slaughter has been happening for many years but, to the shame of the people of Guangzhou, has reached a peak in recent years.
There are some restaurants which make ‘dishes’ by killing cats in boiling water, calling them “water-boiled live cats”. After long suffering during transportation, many cats are already injured severely or even die before they reach Guangzhou. Then these evil people catch them by their necks with a sharp hook, throw them roughly on to the floor and beat them with a metal stick until they are half dead. Then (horrifically) they skin the cats with a special device while they are still alive. And if that’s not barbaric and cruel enough, they then throw the cats into a pot of boiling water while still alive
I am very sorry to inform you of this depressing story. However, these are the facts of what is happening here in my city, which claims to be the most civilized and developed city in southern China, and which will host the 2010 Asian Sports Games.
In Shanghai and many other cities where the cats come from, many people are trying to stop the stealing and shipping of cats. They are the animals right advocates and cat carers who have lost their beloved cats. Many people used to feed the cats in their houses or their local areas, but they have found that cats in their area have been disappearing rapidly. Actually the cats are stolen by evil people and shipped to the province of Guangdong where they end their lives miserably and leave their dear owners heart-broken. These evil catnappers take advantage of an absence of any law to protect animals and operate without fear of prosecution. They pay petty thieves to steel cats in their neighbourhoods. The thieves usually use a trap with a bird on top of it to attract cats. Once the cat enters the trap out of curiosity, it can’t escape.
Recently some determined, caring people have joined together to establish a team, that is Shanghai Cats’ Protection Team. They are fighting against the criminals on their own due to the lack of legislation for animal protection. They have won several fantastic battles on Aug. 05, Aug. 14, Aug. 16 and Aug 19, Sep 21 and Nov.2 ( please see our reports for more details). We are so proud of these brave fighters, who, out of their compassion and love for our lovely animal friends, rush to the highway and daringly stop the trucks physically over and over again. They are fighting extremely hard battles, sacrificing their own time, comfort and personal safety, even risking their lives to fight this evil. We thank them for their heroic action. We also thank them for taking action on behalf of all us animal lovers in China who, like yourselves, never tolerate cruelty to animals and will never stop pursuing the virtue of love and respect for all life forms on our beautiful, but often u gly, planet.
Shanghai Cats’ Protection Team was formed by volunteers. Among them are mostly senior and retired citizens, civil workers, freelancers, etc (mostly female). Their enemy, on the other hand, are the evil catnappers – criminal gangs who have committed such crimes in the past. Hitherto this brave team have won several victories and saved thousands of cats. However, recently the catnappers have become more and more crazy and the situation is dangerous for our activists. On Nov. 2nd 2009, the insane criminals even attacked the cat lovers violently in front of the the police! However, their violence and intimidation can never stop our brave animal lovers. What drives these caring people that makes them so strong and fearless? Love, compassion, and the power of good prevailing over evil.
I ask you with all my heart to support this loving rescuer team. They have risked their lives to save more than 700 cats from these evil criminals. These poor cats need to be settled down into a safe place, spayed, healed, and then adopted. All this requires a great deal of money, time and effort. They are desperately in need of your help.
As you know, the Shanghai Cats’ Protection Team is the No.1 group who take this action to fight cruelty to cats. Their rescuer action is significant. Please, if you can, give them a hand. Your donation will be a great help to the loving cats, and above all it will help make a change to the animal rights movement in China.
Their banking information is as following: the Bank Account of Shanghai Cat Protection Group
1) Bank Name: INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA,
SHANGHAI BRANCH, XUHUI SUB-BRANCH
Beneficiary: HU RONG
Account Number. 6222021001031673780
Swift Code: ICBKCNBJSHI (important)
2) Bank Name: AGRICULTURAL BANK OF CHINA
SHANGHAI BRANCH, LUWAN SUB-BRANCH
Beneficiary: HU RONG
Account Number: 622848 0030725590514
Swift Code: ABOCCNBJ090 (important)
Confirmation Email Addresses:
Jane: xjcui@qq.com
Cynthia: catsprotector@gmail.com
If you find it inconvenient to send money via bank transfer, you may send money directly to Rosa’s PayPal http://www.antifursociety.org/DONATE.html<http://www.antifursociety.org/DONATE.html> and she can help collect your donation and send it on to the team’s account.
I also sincerely ask for your help in some way to stop this unbelievable cruelty. I ask you especially for your help in writing to your local media and to your government (at a high level) to implore them to urge the Chinese government to pass legislation for animal protection, especially to make the killing of dogs and cats for food (and fur) illegal. We are hoping that your support and publicity could help end this cruelty to our beloved Chinese cats and dogs.
We allow you –and even beg you– to publish this article everywhere on the Internet, in the print media or anywhere else, so that this message can be spread worldwide.
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