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[quote]Chinese Officials Defend Dog Crackdown
Dec 11 10:10 AM US/Eastern
By ALEXA OLESEN, Associated Press Writer
BEIJING
Beijing authorities on Monday defended their campaign to confiscate unregistered and oversized dogs, saying it was launched in response to public complaints about barking and biting.
Officials also took several dozen Chinese and foreign journalists to inspect a dog pound on the outskirts of the city where some 600 abandoned, oversized and confiscated dogs are housed. The tour was an apparent attempt to ease public anger over the campaign, which dog owners and animal rights groups say is cruel.
“I really can’t fault them on this (facility),” said Jill Robinson, founder of AnimalsAsia, a Hong Kong-based rights group. “It’s up to Western standards.”
Robinson said that she asked authorities to consider allowing oversized dogs to be spayed and returned to their families with donated muzzles. breitbart.com/news/2006/12/11/D8LUN9RO0.html[/quote]
Is this viewed as a positive move? Does something like this exist on Taiwan?
Keeping stray and dangerous animals controlled seems like a good move, but building a gas-chamber to dispose of the unwanted life would seem excessive.
The authorities in Beijing need to make the city safe and nice for tourists in 2008. It seems like the authorities wield too much power, so when they do try to solve problems they cause problems in the process. A major problem they will face is when tourists won’t even attend because of things recently done to the local canine population.
[quote=“twocs”]A major problem they will face is when tourists won’t even attend because of things recently done to the local canine population.[/quote]Um, yeah. They’re going to ignore what the CCP did to FLG, the Tibetans, pro-democracy dissidents, anti-corruption protesters, Tiananmen tank-man etc etc., and then boycott the Olympics because of some stray dogs.
