Many of you cats have expressed interest in helping our brothers and sisters over in China. Boy, I hope that your Mommie can find out more information for us. I have tried to find protest groups against this, and how to help. So far most of the protest groups are working anonimously within the country of China. They have to stay anonimous for fear of what the government will do to them. This is very very sad.
Right now the only information I have found is this:
International Olympic Committee
Château de Vidy1007
LausanneSwitzerland
Tel: (41.21) 621 61 11
Fax: (41.21) 621 62 16
SEND LETTERS TO PARTICIPATING CITIES:
Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG)
267 Bei Si Huan Zhong LuHaidian District
Beijing 100083, China
Tel: (86.10) 66 69 91 85
Fax: (86.10) 66 69 92 29
Email: 2008@beijing2008.cn
London Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG)
23rd Floor, One Churchill Place
London E14 5LN
Tel.: +44 203 2012 000
Fax: + 44 203 2012 001
Email: info@london2012.com
Please have your humans write to these organizations and tell them the world will not tolerate this behavior from China.
Until tomorrow,
Cecil
Write to these humans!
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Feline Death Camps (updated with more pics as the story continues to break)
I am OUTRAGED. I have found several articles today that are reporting on what is happening to cats in China right now. They are being sent to Feline Death Camps due to the government using scare tactics. According to the Associated Newspapers, LTD, the Chinese government has been telling its citizens that cats are responsible for giving people SARS which is a respiratory disease that can be fatal. They are using this scare tactic by telling people they must put their cats outside to be picked up for special collection teams or their families might contract the deadly disease. Pregnant women are told by their doctors that they must "get rid of" the cat because "it will be bad for the baby."
Not only that, but two school teachers recently beat six stray cats to death with sticks when the cats showed up looking for food at the school play yard. They say, "We did it out of love for the children. We were worried the cats might harm them." The way they killed the cats was to lay out tuna as bait for the very hungry cats (two of which were pregnant females) inside of a cage. Then when the cats entered the cage, they beat them to death with sticks. The teachers say, "We were very worried the children might try to stroke them and that the cats might scratch them or pass on diseases. We had to get rid of the cats and this was the only way to do it." The. Only. Way. My. Butthole. I am sorry if that was vulgar, but this makes me very very angry.
This is not completely the teachers fault, the government has scared them into believing these lies that we are bad animals.
So to take care of the Cat Problem and to clean up the area so that Bejing looks welcoming for the Olympics, cats are being rounded up and sent to these death camps.
I am sorry to have to show you such a terrible thing, but this is what is happening to cats in over 12 death camps in Beijing.
Yan Qi was allowed access into one of the camps. She runs a cat sanctuary and this is what she had to say, "When we went inside, we saw about 70 cats being kept in cages stacked one on top of the other in two tiny rooms. Disease spreads quickly among them and they die slowly in agony and distress. The government won't even do the cats the kindness of giving them lethal injections when they become sick. They just wait for them to die. It is the abandoned pets that suffer the most and die the soonest. They relied so much on their owners that they can't cope with the new environment. Most refuse to eat or drink and get sick more quickly than the feral cats."
One woman, Hu Yuan has been an angel for the 250 abandoned cats that she has graciously taken into her small HOME. She says that 100 out of these 250 cats sleep in her bedroom with her, and ASTONISHINGLY she has not died from any disease! Imagine that! She cannot allow any of the cats to go outdoors because they will be rounded up and taken away. She says, "If I don't take them in, the government will kill them.People believe what the government tells them and that is why they are abandoning more and more family pets."
Yuan goes on to say, "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. "
One "lucky" cat that was saved. Clearly the conditions that these poor cats are being held in are absolutely deplorable. This image is courtesy of the Daily Mail.You may read many articles about this by googling "feline death camps in china."
I am so sad about this, I wonder what I can do to help.
Putting my paws together in purrayer,
Cecil
