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Say NO to mass dog slaughter in China

Target: Clark T. Randt, U.S. Ambassador to China
Sponsored by: Care2
Officials in a southwestern Chinese county brutally slaughtered 50,000 dogs in a government-ordered crackdown after three people died of rabies.

Dogs being walked were seized from their owners and beaten to death on the spot. Killing teams also entered villages at night creating noise to get dogs barking, and then beat the animals to death.

Had the government been more attentive and proactive about rabies vaccination, the killings wouldnÂ’t have been necessary. Only 3 percent of dogs are vaccinated against rabies and more than 2,000 people die of the disease each year.

Regardless of culture, the brutal killing of innocent life, human or not, is unacceptable. This must not happen again in the future! It is essential that the Chinese government place an emphasis on widespread rabies vaccination to ensure human health and prevent the unnecessary loss of animal life.

Sign this petition to call on the US Ambassador to China, Clark T. Randt, to urge the Chinese government to adopt rabies prevention as a rule.
deadline: 8-3-2007
goal: 50,000
 

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Dear Ambassador Randt,

I am deeply appalled to learn that officials in a southwestern Chinese county brutally slaughtered 50,000 dogs in a government-ordered crackdown after three people died of rabies.

[your comment here]

This was not humane euthanasia. Dogs being walked were seized from their owners and beaten to death on the spot. Killing teams also entered villages at night creating noise to get dogs barking, and then beat the animals to death.

This is an extraordinarily crude, coldblooded and lazy way for the Chinese government to deal with disease. Had the government been more attentive and proactive, the killings wouldn’t have been necessary.

Health experts say the brutal policy pointed to deep weaknesses in the health care infrastructure in China, where only 3 percent of dogs are vaccinated against rabies and more than 2,000 people die of the disease each year.

This must not happen again in the future. Regardless of culture, the brutal and unnecessary killing of innocent life, human or not, is unacceptable.

As an American, I ask you, as my Ambassador, to urge the Chinese government to stop this type of government-sanctioned animal cruelty in general, and more specifically urge them to adopt a rabies prevention program that will prevent rabies outbreaks in the future.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

[your name]
[your address]
We signed the “Say NO to mass dog slaughter in China” petition!
# 69,382:
12:28 pm PDT, Sep 13, Henrique Guilera, Brazil
# 69,381:
3:08 am PDT, Sep 13, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
# 69,380:
9:08 am PDT, Sep 12, Megan Sennett, United Kingdom
# 69,379:
3:17 pm PDT, Sep 11, Vanesa Pereira, Spain
# 69,378:
2:41 pm PDT, Sep 11, Name not displayed, Tennessee
To kill so many dogs is so cruel it's sad.
# 69,377:
12:53 pm PDT, Sep 11, Hyper Princess, Nevada
# 69,376:
9:29 am PDT, Sep 11, Name not displayed, Finland
What!? I couldn't even imagine that people & government could do such thing. This is really sick!
# 69,375:
5:32 pm PDT, Sep 10, Stefanie Montemarano, New York
# 69,374:
12:54 pm PDT, Sep 10, Name not displayed, Arizona
The Chinese are becoming more & more to me, like the Nazi's. Is there any living thing that can escape their cruel intentions?? These people are SICK!!!
# 69,372:
12:18 pm PDT, Sep 10, Mylène Leblanc, Canada
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4:32 am PDT, Sep 10, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
# 69,370:
1:52 am PDT, Sep 10, Flavia Gudic, Brazil
kill dogs is just pathetic. and they say: we are rationals...
# 69,369:
6:12 pm PDT, Sep 9, Lyssa Collard, Oklahoma
# 69,368:
2:48 pm PDT, Sep 9, Annmarie Lopez, Florida
# 69,367:
12:26 pm PDT, Sep 9, Theresia Hoffmann, Germany
# 69,366:
11:52 am PDT, Sep 9, Eva Gaugele, Germany
# 69,365:
9:27 am PDT, Sep 9, Anita Fung, Canada
# 69,364:
12:28 pm PDT, Sep 8, Danielle Woodyshek, Massachusetts
# 69,363:
7:09 am PDT, Sep 8, Matt Hambleton, Ohio
# 69,362:
5:29 am PDT, Sep 8, Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
Um, Spay your pets, get rabies vaccine, STOP BEING CHEAP!!! China is sick. Great government they have over there, beating,torturing, skinning animals alive, tons of illegal poaching, disgusting methods of making food, Mass recalls, WOW!! Makes me wanna visit there someday!!!
# 69,361:
7:50 pm PDT, Sep 7, Shikyo Omoide, California
Dogs are alive too, they have feelings even though they can't express it in words. It is just wrong to kill animals because the government is too lazy to give the animals shots. Makes me ashamed of being Chinese. What went wrong?
# 69,360:
7:16 pm PDT, Sep 7, Kennedy Makarowski, Canada
Come on!! Does it make you feel powerful when u strangle them to death? Or hit them with a bat until their dead? Do you think its funny? Well its not. I'll will never forgive any one even if they stop. I think its to cruel to be forgotten.
# 69,359:
6:12 pm PDT, Sep 7, Dark Ryu, Malaysia
Dog are living things even though they are animals. They are also pets of man. So the dogs who belong to someone and gets killed will hurt the owner too. Better stop the rabbis.
# 69,358:
2:30 am PDT, Sep 7, Gillian Tan, Australia
hunt down the hunters.
# 69,357:
5:12 pm PDT, Sep 6, Amanda Prentice, Georgia
If China slaughters more dogs in such a barbaric manner, then the whole world will boycott the Olympics! There is no excuse for mass killings. Pet Owners should be forced to spay/nueter and get rabies shots.
# 69,356:
3:40 pm PDT, Sep 6, Tatiana Mendez, Colombia
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2:49 pm PDT, Sep 6, Vanessa Preston, Canada
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2:35 pm PDT, Sep 6, Schmidt Jorgen, France
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2:33 pm PDT, Sep 6, Schmidt Claudia, France
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11:08 am PDT, Sep 6, Catie Mills, Oregon
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