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Over 1500 Cats Trapped in Shanghai and Surrounding Region for Shipment to Southern China 's Food and Fur Industries

Jia Xing ( Zhejiang Province , China )30 August 2008

Some of the over 1500 terrified cats trapped in and around Shanghai for shipment to Guangdong for food and fur.

On Friday, 29 August 2008, local animal rescuers located several trucks with over seventy bamboo crates crammed with nearly 1500 cats in Jia Xing, a small city in Zhejiang Province , about an hour outside of Shanghai . These cats had likely been trapped in parks, from housing compounds and the street of Shanghai and neighbouring areas. Many of the cats in the crates had collars on them – obviously people's pets, possibly trapped just meters from their home. Their destination was (and still is) Guangdong Province in southern China , to be used for food and fur.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photocopied 'ownership' papers

 

 

The trucks were intercepted late at night in a parking lot in an industrial section of town and as the cat trappers attempted to load the trucks, rescuers called the police. Some rescuers claimed to have lost their cat, while others challenged the rather unofficial-looking photocopied documents that the head of the cat smugglers produced to support his claim that he owned the cats legitimately, having paid RMB50,000 for Photocopied 'ownership' papers them (USD$7,320 / GBP£4,067), and that he was transporting them all according to permit. Regardless of the legality of transport permits, the condition in which the cats were packed – crammed 20 or more to a small crate with no room to move and no access to food or water, while some newborns were being crushed to death and other cats had died, was a shockingly cruel sight.