(CN) PET ABBATOIR

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PET ABBATOIR

 

 

CRAMMED into a filthy rusting cage they peer out helplessly.

 

Some are barely alive. Others already dead. The silence is deafening. Not

even a whimper.

 

This is the pets abbatoir - where cats, dogs, rabbits and other more exotic

animals, are taken to be slaughtered before ending up on the dinner table.

 

Some will be dragged out, muzzled with wire, hog-tied and have their throats

cut.

 

Their fur will then be blow-torched from their bodies before they are boiled

in large vats.

 

Others will be carted off live to restaurants where they will suffer similar

fates.

 

All will suffer lingering painful deaths because the people who eat them

believe that " torture equals taste " .

 

These horrific pictures were taken by British investigators from the charity

Animals Asia Foundation at the Hua Nam South China animal market in the city

of Guangzhou - formerly Canton.

 

" The scale of the trade is quite shocking, " said the AAF's UK director Dave

Neale.

 

" This is just one market in one city in China, yet on the day we were there

we saw 500-600 dogs and as many as 200 cats. And we were told it was a quiet

day. "

 

The animals are brought to the market in cages stacked 10ft high on the back

of lorries.

 

Once there, the cages, with the animals still inside, are dumped on the

floor.

 

Mr Neale added: " The cages were massed all over the place. The conditions

were terrible.

 

" We saw the area where the animals are butchered. There were faeces, blood

and guts all over the floor. We were walking on body parts.

 

" It was like an open abattoir, a hell on earth. It was the worst thing I

have ever seen in my life.

 

" There were dead animals just left lying around on the floor of the market.

There was a white cat lying stiff on a pallet.

 

" And we saw a barking deer, an endangered species, which had obviously been

trapped because it had one of its feet missing.

 

" They say they don't use pure-bred dogs but we saw two Dalmatian puppies

there ready for slaughter. "

 

The AAF hope to persuade the Chinese government to follow other Asian

countries and outlaw the eating of animals that we see as pets or rare

breeds - rare leopard cats, barking deer and flying squirrels are also sold

to restaurants.

 

AAF's website: http://www.animalsasia.org/