China wuv kitties.

[The_Real_Crunk]

99% criminal conviction rate, mass dog collection and killings last year, lead paint toys, and now mass cat collecting and killings this year. GO CHINA.

Thousands of pet cats in Beijing are being abandoned by their owners and sent to die in secretive government pounds as China mounts an aggressive drive to clean up the capital in preparation for the Olympic Games.

Hundreds of cats a day are being rounded and crammed into cages so small they cannot even turn around.

Then they are trucked to what animal welfare groups describe as death camps on the edges of the city.

The cull comes in the wake of a government campaign warning of the diseases cats carry and ordering residents to help clear the streets of them.

Cat owners, terrified by the disease warning, are dumping their pets in the streets to be picked up by special collection teams.

Paranoia is so intense that six stray cats -including two pregnant females - were beaten to death with sticks by teachers at a Beijing kindergarten, who feared they might pass illnesses to the children.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...=1766&ito=1490

[Goufunaki]

Re: China wuv kitties.

God, people are cruel.

[TheHonorableRyu]

Re: China wuv kitties.

There is both a cruel solution and a ridiculous solution for every problem!

Despite the health warnings, the round-up of cats has led to a surge in the number of restaurants in the capital serving cat meat, according to Ms Hu.

Why just kill the diseased cats when you can kill them and serve them to your fellow human beings?

[Jamos]

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God... this is sickening... those poor animals.

[orius]

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Yeah but they eat cats. Maybe they're just prepping the catering for the games. *ducks*

[Wavelength]

Re: China wuv kitties.

Does no one see a likeness to the Mad Cow scare, where hundreds of thousands of cattle were "destroyed" and "discarded"?

I'm not saying I condone killing kittens, but to compare killing some cats for sanitation reasons, to the Nazi death camps? That's disgusting.

[Nixon]

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Where in the article do they mention nazis?

This new endeavor is very cruel, but as Crunk pointed out, they've set the bar pretty high.

[Duel]

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That's pretty crazy.

[Kefka Jr.]

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GUYS HURRY WE HAVE TO MAKE BEIJING A PLEASANT PLACE FOR THE OLYMPICS WHAT SHOULD WE DO???

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WAIT! I'VE GOT IT!

[Magus]

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This sort of thing is common when the Olympics come by. One of several reasons the games are ****in' forfeit.

I wonder how many hobos/squatters/slums are getting killed/evacuated/decimated.

[Kire]

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They better not come for my kitty if they have the games here in Chicago.

What disease are they afraid of????

[The_Real_Crunk]

Re: China wuv kitties.

There isnt any disease. Its just crap spread by the government to try and get rid of all the cats, which is one of the many things on their "to do" list getting ready for when the olympics come by.

She said the problem could be traced back to former president Jiang Zemin for the crackdown.

"He didn't like dogs so he decided to have dogs killed. But there was a bad reaction from the foreign media and they were pressured to stop.

"Now they have stopped killing dogs but the new victims are cats. It is all connected to the Olympics."

Cats are regularly dumped on her doorstep late at night by owners frightened by the government campaign.

"The situation is very bad now," said Ms Hu. "When women get pregnant, the doctor will ask them if they have a cat in the house.

"If they reply Yes, they tell them, 'You must get rid of it, it will be bad for the baby'.

"I keep all the cats in my house and 100 of them sleep in my bedroom at night. I am too frightened to let them out. If they go outside, they will be taken away and killed.

"The government is not telling people the truth. Look at me. I live with them 24 hours a day, seven days a week and I am very healthy."

Shes a crazy chinese lady with 200+ cats in her house, but shes got a point. That docters telling pregnant women to get rid of cats really gets me though.

[Wavelength]

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I will concede that they do seem to be in a state of absolute fanatacism about the Beijing Olympics.

Shard posted a great article in my "Five Gas Stations Theory" topic that briefly touched on how much water they are draining from their farmland to service the Olympics, and how even some of the farmers are happy that they're doing it.

An activist lawyer in China went "missing" a few days ago. It is my sincerest wish that he's "found" and returned safely to his family.

I don't think he was protesting the Olympics or anything, but it shows how the country still has a ways to go before it can hold itself up as the beacon that the nation wants to illustrate itself as in the Beijing Olympics.

[highwind]

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I WONDER IF THEY KARATE CHOP THEM TO DEATH.

[Sgt. Fatso Jackson]

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why, because their asian? somebody please ban this highwind joker.