[WatchingU]

Help Us Stop the Qinhuangdao Dog Slaughter Before it Starts

I've just received an urgent report that another city in China is planning a mass cull to slaughter any unregistered dogs, strays, and even registered family dogs that are over 14 inches (35cm) tall.

Dog owners in Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province, are even being told to kill their own dogs, or else their dogs will be beaten to death by the police and the owners will be charged a fine. Can you imagine being forced to kill your own dog to save it from a more brutal slaughter?

Unless we can stop this now, the Dog Death squads could be roaming the streets tomorrow – beating, stoning, and killing dogs – some right in front of their owners.

You might remember the attached e-mail I sent you recently about a similar cull. We found out too late for many of those dogs, but this time we have a chance to stop it before it starts.

I need you to do two things right now:
1. Send an e-mail to the Chinese Ambassador in your country. So you can act quickly, I've written an e-mail for you - http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw_canada_engl...auid=5306792#x

2. Make a donation to help IFAW end dog culls in China and to protect animals around the world from similar cruelty.

It’s crucial that you act quickly –according to the government notice, the police will begin combing the streets tomorrow to kill dogs. Please send your message now, and then forward this e-mail to as many of your friends as possible urging them to help us stop this slaughter.

In addition to working to stop this cull, IFAW is helping draft China's first national animal welfare legislation that will prohibit culls like this. And we're developing a rabies vaccination and sterilization program that we can offer to rural communities to humanely prevent rabies and control dog populations.

We’ve stopped culls like this in other Chinese cities, and we can stop this one too! Please send your message of protest today.

And then please make a donation to help us continue our efforts to help save animals around the world from cruelty and exploitation.

Please act now to save these dogs - make it the very next thing you do.

Thank you,

[SJT1986]

IS this for real?!! This is disgusting!

[WatchingU]

Originally Posted by SJT1986

IS this for real?!! This is disgusting!

Yes it is very much for real and part of the IFAW. PLease cgo to the link and look at their site

[seadog]

being a dog lover I find this horrendous but what does annoy me id that IFAW have millions in the bank and a huge staff cost so when they publicise these awful culls I only wish they would think of the gut reaction it causes and people donate but it only increases the cofferes sometimes to the fact of little charities that are run purely by volunteeers lose out to the extent sometimes that animals who have beenin foster kennels lose there funding and have to sometimes be put to sleep

[mummysaz21]

guess this will have happend by now?