If you click on the link below, you are going to be exposed to some emotionally disturbing images of what the Chinese government has been doing to the dogs and the dog owners in China -- Dog Culling. If you claim to be an animal lover, and you are strong enough to handle the story of the tragedy, please keep reading, because the animals in China will benefit from your concern, your donation, your letters and emails. If you choose not to be involved in the reading, please delete this message, and notify me, so that I can take you off my list.

Because of the widespread outbreak of rabies in China, the governmental solution to this epidemic problem is mass dog culling. The stray and pet dogs are drowned, bludgeoned to death in front of the owners, electrocuted or buried alive. 50,000 dogs have been killed through these appalling methods.

I kept asking myself how could this barbaric behavior is acceptable in a modern society. Their reason for this is to stop the rabies by killing all the dogs, especially the dogs are higher than 35 cm, the people from the Chinese government who made this policy think all dogs that are taller than 35 cm are dangerous. The government of China want to "clean up" the streets of Beijing before the summer Olympic in 2008. The culling has proven it's ineffective and inhumane, there're more humane ways of controlling rabies in a modern society, such as education and prevention, vaccinations and scientific approach.

The world animal welfare organizations and groups of compassionate locals have forwarded the petition letters to the president Wu Jin Tao, he's promised to call off the dog culling, but there isn't an official ban on the dog culling. Asia Animal Foundation has been playing a major role in this to urge the Chinese government to stop this brutal dog culling. 50,000 muzzles have been offered to the big dogs in Beijing by a compassionate vet. who lives overseas. The use of the muzzle is an attempt to delay the ruin of the dogs that are taller than 35 cm, while we all holding our breath to wait for a favoured decision to be made by the central government in Beijing, we hope the dog culling will be banned.

I did insert a photo of a beautiful rainbow between the dog culling images. I want to imagine that the brutally slaughtered dogs have gone to the other side of the rainbow, where there's no pain, no suffering, no torture. They will have a safe place to lay down, free of pain and abuse, they'll have clean water, food, and they're playing with my Jacob and Franky.

The latest News from Asia Animal Foundation is president Wu Jin Tao has called off the dog culling, but there are still more than 10 millions of dogs and cats are still being killed a year for food. The transportation is worse than the caged chicken I've ever seen in China. The killing is brutally slow and unbearable, as the dog meat eaters in China believe in "a slow kill for a good eat."

To hate the killers who torture the dogs to death for food and wish them go to hell doesn't help, what can make a change is to write letters to the local Chinese Embassy in your city to express your concern (if you are from Vancouver, the address is listed below). You can also give donation to Asia Animal Foundation to support their work, the website for AAF is: http://www.animalsasia.org/index.php?module=8&submenupos=1&item=2$lg=en

Address for Chinese Embassy in Vancouver:

mailto:mchinaemb_ca@mfa.gov.cn

Ambassador H.E. Lu Shumin

Embassy of The Government of the People's Republic of China

515 ST. PATRICK STREET, OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA, KIN 5H3 P.O.BOX 8935 NEW TERMINAL, ALTA VISTA, OTTAWA, CANADA

Tel: +1-613-7893434, 7910511 Fax: +1-613-7891911, 7891414

The website for Asia Animal Foundation is: http://www.animalsasia.org/index.php?module=8&menupos=1&submenupos=1&item=2&lg=en&lg=en