Chinese man caught with 500 imprisoned cats destined for restaurants

[Old Warrior in Exile]

Chinese man caught with 500 imprisoned cats destined for restaurants

By Simon Denyer June 13 at 5:15 AM

BEIJING — 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

[Old Warrior in Exile]

[Wingnut]

[Suppressed]

@Freya

[driftdiver]

Those cats look really bad off.    I cant imagine they'd have much meat on them to start with.

Some people really suck

[Gefn]

@Freya

I'll ping it after I vomit. Made me cry.

[Just_Victor]

Those cats look really bad off.    I cant imagine they'd have much meat on them to start with.

Some people really suck

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.

[austingirl]

I can't even look at the article. It makes me sick to think that people do such things.

[Gefn]

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

 
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[Silver Pines]

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

 
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@Freya

I'm not going to the link.  The excerpt is bad enough, and I certainly don't want to see pictures.  I'll just content myself by imagining what I'd like to do to that piece of crap.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

It's a shame this didn't happen in America and we can't get this monster before a Judge who'll sentence him on 500 individual counts of cruelty to animals with 500 consecutive sentences.

Burn in H**l you P*S.

[Silver Pines]

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.

Just_Victor

Feral 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.

[Gefn]

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.

[Silver Pines]

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.

@Freya


I've got a cat for him:

[Gefn]

Yay!

Go tiger!

[Just_Victor]

Just_Victor

Feral 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.

I have 4 cats (all rescues) and have fostered almost 30 orphaned kittens, and I didn't look because I knew I didn't want to see the condition of the animals.

But the point of saying they were likely feral is that was probably their condition prior to being trapped.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

@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/

[dfwgator]

[Silver Pines]

https://www.earthtouchnews.com/natural-world/predator-vs-prey/americas-celebrity-jaguar-el-jefe-is-a-bear-hunter/

@To-Whose-Benefit?

Oh, wow, what a gorgeous cat.  And a true bada##, as they tend to be.

Recently I saw a video of a jaguar going into the water and pulling out a crocodile with his jaws.

[roamer_1]

I am very proud of all y'all... Almost a page of posts and no one has posted 'Cat's in the Kettle'.

[Frank Cannon]

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?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn2Sa5UGxK8

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

@CatherineofAragon

Considering the caption under your gravatar it stuck me that you might get a kick out of this one:

“Take me to the Brig. I want to see the “real Marines”.
– Major General Chesty Puller, USMC – while on a Battalion inspection.

http://www.military-quotes.com/chesty-puller.htm

[roamer_1]

What's that you say?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn2Sa5UGxK8

And I'm proud it was you, Frank.