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Are you a dog person? I am. Nothing more wonderful than having a dog, they are such a pleasure, and bring a lot of fun to your life. That’s why today I am a little bit shocked at some news from China that would have any dog lover up in arms. My fellow blogger Martyn in Guangzhou reports this disturbing news about Chinese government dog-confiscation teams that were taking dogs from their owners, often beating them to death right there and then.

Guangzhou pet dogs beaten to death by government teams

Last week in Guangzhou I heard from friends that government dog-confiscation teams were turning up at veterinary clinics, slaughtering all the sick dogs on the premises and taking away their bodies to be destroyed. I also heard that the confiscation teams were rounding up unregistered dogs in parks and killing them on the spot, usually beating the dogs to death in front of their distraught owners, before throwing the bloody and mutilated bodies into the back of a truck. It’s not surprising, therefore, that some owners fainted from the shock.

Read the full article at The Peking Duck. Want to help? Link to them and trackback, get the news out, write about it yourself. This is shameful and disgraceful, and as Martyn points out, if it is a method of controlling rabies the Chinese authorities are killing dogs for nothing. A decent vaccination program and game control program would easily solve that.