Death Camp For Cats
March 9th, 2008 by joe
With all the recent news about how gosh darned exotic China really is, I don’t know that anyone needs further convincing, but here ya go anyway (cat lovers may not want to click on the link):
“When we went inside, we saw about 70 cats being kept in cages stacked one on top of the other in two tiny rooms.
“Disease spreads quickly among them and they die slowly in agony and distress. The government won’t even do the cats the kindness of giving them lethal injections when they become sick. They just wait for them to die.
“It is the abandoned pets that suffer the most and die the soonest. They relied so much on their owners that they can’t cope with the new environment…”
The killing of the six stray cats at the kindergarten - where staff at a Beijing cigarette factory leave their children - is the most striking illustration of the city-wide fear of cats.
A teacher at the nursery said: “We did it out of love for the children. We were worried the cats might harm them. These six cats had been hanging around the kindergarten looking for food.
“So three male teachers put out plates of tuna in cages for bait, trapped the cats and then beat them to death with sticks…”
You have to hand it to the Chinese that they so resolutely allow any tinch of humanitarian scruples to slide right off their backs.
And, frankly, who can blame them. When the powers that be decide “We need to get rid of a WHOLE BUNCH of cats before the Olympics,” (5 months away), if you quibble over logistics you might never get anything accomplished. You could easily end up with animal lovers hemming and hawing about animal rights and basic human decency until the whole program is nibbled to death by ducks.
The fact that the round up will be accomplished in a fashion that most civilized societies would view as, well, harsh, is not going to interfere with the round up actually occurring. In China, they get things done.
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March 9th, 2008 at 3:09 am
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March 9th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
ROFL
March 10th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Joe,
Look at it logically. This is a faint. The real reason for cat round-up is the Olympics. They got to feed those visitors somehow (sorry, Linda) and what better way than authentic Chinese cuisine!
March 10th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Of course it a feint — although, being socialists, there is a good chance that they really are that stupid. The cats were blamed for the Black Death, too. Turned out, of course, that the real carriers were the rats. When the cats were killed, the rats multiplied.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:11 am
Sarcasm — the only problem with this post is that the people in the original are upset.
The thing that went through my mind was that people are all upset about cats being killed, when there are babies being killed by abortion in this country. That is another post….
March 11th, 2008 at 1:23 am
please
March 11th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Brian,
Interesting point. When animals are killed inhumanely in this country the enviro-whackos and the Hollywood set get their panties in a wad. That we as a nation see over 5000 children aborted in working day does not cause any of these fools any regret what so ever.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Too bad cats don’t taste more like chicken. this never would have happened..
March 13th, 2008 at 4:53 am
Sad that many of the above posts are so greepy narrow minded. Comparing abortions with cat killing? Cats better taste more than chicken? Doh, the chinse do eat cats (and dogs). And another one is ROLF his a**, how sick can you be?
March 13th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Sara,
as sick as we want to be
March 13th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
You people are all sick and I hope that you rot in h###. What is so funny about innocent creatures being slaughtered? You all deserve to take their place because you are mentally screwed up and twisted.
March 13th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
I don’t think anybody was congratulating the Chinese for what they are doing.
March 13th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
what’s wrong with cat? there’s a saying in chinese that if an animal’s back faces the sky, it’s ok to eat. That means NO apes and NO kangaroos. Cat, however, is squarely on the menu, and it might be delicious for all I know. Sure kittens are cute and cuddly, but let’s not let reason be overtaken by emotion.
but seriously, just to play devil’s advocate, with threat of SARS and bird flu, the Chinese gov’s done a fair amount of mass animal executions in recent years. Chickens, ducks, monkeys, dogs, cats. I know there was especially a concern that cats were causing the transmission of a deadly disease. That’s got to have an effect of downgrading their status, and diminishing their cuteness factor in the eyes of a lot of people. So we see a bunch of cute kittens being killed by the Reds, but through the lens of recent threats to public health, the Chinese gov. sees an out of control population of disease ridden rats with claws.
I’m not saying it’s nice to go around killing kittens, but you can’t deny that there could be a difference between your understanding of “cats” and theirs. In both cases, experience is informing what people consider to be an acceptable course of action. This might be to relativist for y’all. You’ll probably argue that cats are objectively cute and cuddly, and maybe even cite something in the NT to back your position up, but remember that the Chinese are all godless communists
March 13th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
SPMM is right on the money this time. Now I will go lie down, and take aspirin. The pain, the pain …
March 13th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Some of my favorite commenters here are godless communists.
March 13th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Maybe the Chinese may take a look at their own hygiene iso blaming animals in some cases. I’ve had ’some’ experience with chinese people, and believe me, they are not an example for hygiene. Of course it is easy to blame the animals, and yes, in some cases they are a source for deseases, but frequently by human interference (neglet ea). It is of course easier for the politicians to find a ‘doom animal’ iso cleaning up the human filth in their cities (and it smells like hell!)
March 13th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Maybe the Chinese should have called PETA, I am sure they would have taken good care of them (wink-wink).
March 13th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Sara,
Not sure what “hell” smells like but I am going to take your word on it for this one.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
smore,
You actually said something intelligent and I will agree with you on this. I’m sure that my agreeing with you is more painfull for you than it is for me.
May 13th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Idiots. They want to control SARS, but forget about cats role in controlling rats population… Bubonic plague, anyone?
People usually get plague from being bitten by a rodent flea that is carrying the plague bacterium or by handling an infected animal. Millions of people in Europe died from plague in the Middle Ages, when human homes and places of work were inhabited by flea-infested rats. Today, modern antibiotics are effective against plague, but if an infected person is not treated promptly, the disease is likely to cause illness or death.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/plague/