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We receive daily reports from our friends activists in China about dog sculls. Despite of the good news about Nanjing police, Animals Asia Foundation's report as well as other updates show the tremendous work the AR activist still have to carry out, with the help and backup of worlwide activists and AR organizations.
Chifeng city dog slaughter - August 2009
The online news agency Cina.com published evidences of the slaughter HERE (warning : disturbing graphics)
 Animals Asia has received information from contacts in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia that the Hongshan district police office has instigated a policy of indiscriminate dog slaughter. The authorities in Chifeng City issued dog-management regulations to the people of the city back in 2003.
The authorities claim that in recent years, the behaviour of dogs and their guardians has become out of control. Therefore in August 2009, the police issued an official announcement forbidding dogs and dog guardians from:
1. Raising large dogs and dangerous dogs in the downtown area of Chifeng City.
2. Entering markets, shops, restaurants, parks, public greenbelt, schools, hospitals, movie theaters, gymnasiums, pleasure grounds, bus stations, airports, streets, resident communities, and other public areas.
3. Walking dogs on the street and footpath.
4. Entering public vehicles and elevators.
If anyone gets out of line, the police will kill all such dogs….
Animals Asia is saddened and appalled by these actions being carried out by the Chifeng authorities and the development of archaic rules to regulate dog-guardianship in the city and control street-dog populations.
Animals Asia, in partnership with Chinese animal-welfare groups as part of the “Friends of Animals Asia Alliance” has written to the Chifeng authorities calling for an immediate end to this mass slaughter, and asking the authorities to consider a “grandfather” approach allowing people to keep the dogs they have and, once they have died naturally, instructing owners not to replace them with other dogs. This will at least allow owners to keep their beloved family members. Our coalition letter is below.
To read a report on dog-population management in China and how Animals Asia strives to prevent more culls, please click here.
What you can do
You can help support our efforts to battle this atrocity. Please write a polite letter to the Chinese Ambassador and send it to the main embassy address in your country. Embassy addresses can be found here:
www.travelchinaguide.com/embassy/embassy_list.htm Explain, politely but firmly, that the policy is cruel, heartless and ineffective, and paints the people and government of Chifeng in a very poor light.
Urge the Chinese authorities to persuade the Chifeng City government to abandon this carnage in favour of a humane trap-neuter-release and vaccination programme, as recommended by the WHO, and animal-welfare organisations worldwide. Please urge the authorities in Beijing to allow dog owners to keep the dogs they already have and allow them to live out their natural lives.
Qinghuangdao City - September 2009
Proposed enforcement of strict regulations means death for China’s pets
Animals Asia has received information from contacts in Qinghuangdao City, Hebei province that from 10 September onwards the police will confiscate and kill pet dogs that do not meet the city’s regulations.
The dog-raising regulations in Qinghuangdao City forbid a list of breeds classed as dangerous dogs and dogs taller than 35cm from being kept. Also, the regulations allow only dogs smaller than 35cm to go out in public from 9pm to 6am every day, therefore forbidding all dogs to be out in public during the daytime hours (6am and 9pm).
The authorities have instructed owners of dogs that do not meet their regulations to “deal” with the dogs themselves or the police will confiscate and kill them. The authorities are also instructing dog-owners to pay a fee of around RMB200 (US$30) for slaughtering their own pets.
Animals Asia is saddened and appalled by these actions being carried out by the Qinghuangdao authorities and the enforcement of archaic rules to regulate dog-guardianship in the city.
Animals Asia – in partnership with Chinese animal-welfare groups that have joined our “Friends of Animals Asia Alliance” – has both written to and called the Qinghuangdao authorities calling for an immediate end to this slaughter, and asking the authorities to consider a “grandfather” approach, allowing people to keep the dogs they have and, once they have died naturally, instructing owners not to replace them with other dogs.
This will at least allow owners to keep their beloved family members. We have also provided recommendations to the authorities on the implementation of humane dog-management regulations.
At the moment the authorities are not prepared to halt their course of action and we have asked local welfare groups based in Hebei to monitor the situation and report back to us if they hear or see any dog confiscations taking place.
Congratulations to Nanjing Police on humane handling of dogs
Animals Asia has learned that on 8 August 2009 the Nanjing Police department was involved in the handling of an incident involving two Tibetan mastiffs who had escaped from their guardian's yard.
The Tibetan mastiffs had bitten two people in a Nanjing residential community. The police were alerted and some 50 officers and four police dogs searched the community for the dogs. On finding the dogs, they were captured and housed at a local shelter.
In Nanjing, dog-management regulations forbid residents from raising large-breed dogs, such as Tibetan mastiffs. All too often in many Chinese cities, we see the authorities reacting to incidences of dog bites and unregistered dogs by slaughtering the dogs on the city streets. In this case the Nanjing police handled the situation humanely and with compassion for the dogs concerned. Animals Asia has thanked the Nanjing police department for adopting this approach.
The person at fault for these dog bites is ultimately the dog’s guardian. Caring responsibly for large-breed dogs in cities means co-existing with other residents. If dogs with the potential to bite members of the public are allowed to escape from their owners homes and bite residents, city police departments will take action. Fortunately, the Nanjing Police used compassion. The guardian was fined and instructed to cover the medical costs of the two people wounded by the dogs.
This action follows the positive approach taken by the Nanjing police department to the management of stray dogs in 2006. Following a meeting with Jill Robinson MBE, our China Relations Director Christie Yang, and Ms Ha Wenjin of the Nanjing Ping An A Fu Animal Protection Group, Nanjing police decided to adopt a policy of capturing stray dogs and placing them in a local animal shelter, instead of organising a city-wide dog cull.
This was at a time when street dogs in both Yunnan and Shandong provinces were being brutally slaughtered. Not only did the Nanjing police show compassion towards the dogs by placing them at a shelter, they also provided funds to the Nanjing Ping An shelter to care for the dogs. See here for more.
This previous action coupled with the news of the treatment of the two mastiffs shows the continued compassion and importance the Nanjing police department place on the welfare of companion animals. We congratulate the Nanjing authorities on their approach and will use this example to encourage other Chinese cities to adopt similar compassion when managing dog populations. A copy of our thank-you letter to the police department can be seen below:
| Mr. Xu Zhubao, Director General
Nanjing Public Security Bureau
No.1, Hong Gong Ci,
Baixia Roa
Nanjing
China
August 2009 Dear Mr Xu
On behalf of Animals Asia Foundation, the Animals Asia Friendship Alliance and our supporters across the world, I am writing to thank you and your officers for your humane handling and treatment of two Tibetan mastiffs following the dog-bite incident in the Nanjing residential community on 8 August.
Animals Asia has learned that the Security Patrol branch and Shi Fo Temple Lost Dog Shelter under your leadership were involved in the handling of these unregistered dogs, which are prohibited in Nanjing city. The branch and shelter officers handled the case humanely by taking into consideration the rights of the citizens and the welfare of the animals. Your actions have been positively recognised by the citizens of Nanjing and local animal-protection groups.
Nanjing Ping An A Fu Animal Protection Group has notified animal-welfare groups across China of your positive actions. Moreover, news of your decision to treat the dogs humanely has spread across the globe and has reached international animal-protection organizations, such as ourselves, and we have passed this news onto our international supporters.
I am pleased to see Nanjing continuing to lead the way with humane dog-population management. Your police authority officials kindly met with our China Relations Director, Christie Yang and I in 2006 to discuss humane measures to control dog populations. This was at a time when dogs in both Yunnan and Shandong provinces were being brutally slaughtered.
We thank your authority for rejecting a cruel reactionary stance to this problem, which would have lead to dogs being killed, and for adopting the humane solution of placing stray dogs into the care of the Nanjing Ping An A Fu Animal Protection Group. We would also like to thank you once again for providing the shelter with funds to feed and care for the dogs. This previous action coupled with the news of the treatment of the two mastiffs shows the continued compassion and importance you place on the welfare of companion animals in Nanjing.
Animals Asia Foundation is devoted to animal protection across Asia, we appreciate the growing trend and recognition of animal welfare in China, particularly with the addition of this most recent case of humane handling.
China has a long tradition of compassion for the weak, disadvantaged and the needy. Your humane animal-management method is a testimony to this great tradition of compassion for non-human individuals. We at Animals Asia congratulate you for the progress you continue to make.
Yours sincerely,
Jill Robinson MBE
Founder & CEO
Animals Asia Foundation
Tel: +852 2791 2225
Fax: +852 2791 2320
Web: www.animalsasia.org
NB. Animals Asia Friendship Alliance is a network of animal-welfare groups across China working for the protection of companion animals.
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