An effort to save dogs from an illegal Shenzhen slaughterhouse has resulted in many of their deaths anyway after government workers were “too violent” while moving them.
Government enforcement agencies and animal activists were successful in shutting down an illegally-operated dog slaughterhouse in Guangming New District yesterday after animal activists had held a vigil for 36 hours straight. The 89 dogs that were saved from slaughter then had to be removed from the slaughterhouse — which is where things went horribly wrong.
Government workers (seen wearing yellow hard hats and reflective vests in the photographs) put the dogs into cages to be relocated, but a majority of the dogs died because the workers didn’t take enough care. Several were described as being “too violent” while handling the dogs, using metal pincers to subdue them and pick them up by the neck. Then many were squeezed into tiny cages and put onto trolleys. One dog appeared to be heavily bleeding from a wound on its neck.
The illegal slaughterhouse had dirty knives strewn across the floor and a device that removes fur from a slaughtered dog.
