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Chinese man caught with 500 imprisoned cats destined for restaurantsBy Simon Denyer June 13 at 5:15 AMBEIJING — In China, it is legal to eat cats and dogs. Even so, ordinary people reacted with alarm this week as news broke of a Chinese man caught with 500 cats, crowded into tiny cages, which he intended to sell to restaurants.The man had used sparrows and caged birds to lure both stray cats and domestic ones in the city of Jiujiang in southern Jiangsu province, the 163.com and news.ifeng.com websites reported.Many of the cats were found in cages in the back of a small truck, some near death and mewing faintly in the heat, while others were recovered in a hut near a highway, cooled only by a ceiling fan. The man usually sold the cats for about 30 yuan ($4.40) each, the report said, citing a local policeman.The man, identified only as Sun, was arrested Sunday after another man complained to police that someone had been stealing his pets, including a mother nursing five kittens. Police said that if no owners came forward, they would just release the 500 cats, the report said.The news provoked intense debate on the Netease portal, with more than 40,000 comments, although more appeared to express indignation at the idea that the man had lured away people’s pets than at the idea of eating the animals.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/06/13/chinese-man-caught-with-500-imprisoned-cats-destined-for-restaurants/?utm_term=.ce8395d1c15a
@Freya
Those cats look really bad off. I cant imagine they'd have much meat on them to start with.Some people really suck
I can't even look at the article. It makes me sick to think that people do such things.
I agree. Nevertheless, I've been asked to kitty ping it. @Hopalong Ginsberg @rodamala @Suppressed @To-Whose-Benefit? @Applewood @CatherineofAragon @EC @Cyber Liberty @jmyrlefuller @ConstitutionRose @Victoria33 :
Odds are good they were feral.I love the headline using "imprisoned." I might have to head over to the SPCA and rescue a few "imprisoned" cats.
I didn't read it either. The headline made me vomit and cry. People who do this to dogs and cats I don't believe are people.
Just_VictorFeral cats don't deserve that kind of treatment. The word they used doesn't bother me half as much as what happened to the animals.
@Freya I've got a cat for him:
https://www.earthtouchnews.com/natural-world/predator-vs-prey/americas-celebrity-jaguar-el-jefe-is-a-bear-hunter/
I am very proud of all y'all... Almost a page of posts and no one has posted 'Cat's in the Kettle'.
What's that you say?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn2Sa5UGxK8