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Showing posts with label pet dog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pet dog. Show all posts

Thursday, September 8, 2016

Heartbreaking moment little girl finds her missing dog roasted and ready for sale



Published on 31 Mar 2015

The tears of a child over her lost pet are hard to look at. But the story is more gut wrenching as it becomes clear this girl found her pet roasted and ready for sale at a local meat vendor. The photographs showing the young girl crying have gone viral on Vietnamese social media, after she allegedly spotted her family's dog on sale at a local meat vendor after it had gone missing for several days. The unnamed girl, thought to be about five years old and from a village in northern Vietnam, spotted the dog for sale, after it had been slaughtered, roasted, and placed in a flat basket. Her tragic response has brought back long-running discussion on social media in Vietnam, as well as in neighbouring China, about the ethics of eating dogs. Stories about strays or other dogs taken from the street and sold in unhygienic conditions to the public are common with a growing number of clashes between people looking for dogs to cook and sell ending up in clashes with dog owners. Eating dog meat is not illegal in China, and there is an annual dog eating festival in the Chinese city of Yulin, with an estimated 10,000 dogs slaughtered at the summer solstice event every year. In response to international outrage China said it was clamping down on the illegal street dog meat sellers, forcing it instead into authorised premises. They want the dogs to come from authorised traders and not be harvested off the street where they may have diseases that could pose a risk to human health and subsequently be butchered in unhygienic conditions. Only recently a raid happened in the Shunyi District of China’s capital Beijing where customers were given the chance to pick their dog from a cage before it was slaughtered and screened in front of them.

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Pet Dog Attacks Wild Bear, Saves Life Of Five-Year-Old Japanese Boy


Published on 24 Jun 2014

A pet dog living with its family in the town of Odate in northern Japan is being hailed a hero after she was credited for saving the life of a five-year-old boy. According to Yahoo News, the six-year-old dog, a Shiba-inu breed named "Mego" took on a large 1 meter bear when the boy was attacked by the wild animal. The boy was reportedly walking by a riverside with his great-grandfather when the incident happened. According to reports, the alert dog barked unusually loud after it spotted the bear before attacking it. The boy, however, did get minor scratches on his body. The boy's clothes were torn and his back and bottom were covered in scratches where the bear had apparently clawed at him. Odate is located around 340 miles north of the capital, Tokyo. According to a local police spokesman, the boy was taken to hospital, but he was released on the same day. The local Japanese media also reported that when the bear attacked, the child's 80-year-old great grandfather raised an alarm. According to locals, Mego was always known to be a calm and timid dog. For the same reason, it came as a surprise to many when they found that Mego managed to scare a large bear away and save the life of the little boy. "Mego is usually calm and timid. It was a great surprise that she chased away a bear. Mego has always been his friend and we have rewarded her with meat and other treats," the dog's owner told the Sports Hochi daily. The bear species that attacked the boy is believed to be an Asian black bear, which is common in the northern fringes of Asia, particularly in Japan. While not as big as Brown bears, they are big and strong enough to cause injury and death to human beings. Japanese authorities have confirmed that they have seen an increase in the number of bear sightings in the area where the attack was reported, says Japan Today. They have also stepped up patrols in the area so incidents like this are not repeated.