CHINA >> action alert: Updated 20/05/08

NEWS FLASH >> The Herald in Australia has run a good article on greyhound racing in Australia and the links to China nd Macau ... click here

URGENT ACTION >> Letters and emails of protest are needed against the Canidrome (greyhound track) in Macau ... click here

URGENT ACTION >> Letters and emails of protest are needed against greyhound racing at Shanghai Wildlife Park ... click here

URGENT ACTION >> please contact Chinese embassies to protest about the spread of greyhound racing to China ... click here

URGENT ACTION >> please contact the Chinese Tourist Administration to protest about the spread of greyhound racing to China ... click here

URGENT ACTION >> please contact Australian Embassies in Asia to protest about the spread of greyhound racing to Asia and the conditions that the dogs suffer there ... click here

URGENT ACTION >> please contact and protest to Austrade (The Australian Trade Commission) the Federal Government agency involved with Australian businessess overseas to protest about the spread of greyhound racing to Asia and the conditions that the dogs suffer there ... click here

NEWS FLASH>> COLCHESTER MP BACKS CALL TO CLOSE BARBARIC ANIMAL MARKETS IN CHINA ... press your MP to help click here

NEWS FLASH>> China Kills Thousands of Dogs for Olympics click here

China is a massive country with a very bad record on the treatment of animals. It's no surprise therefore to find that there are concerns about the treatment of greyhounds in China.

Also like the rest of South East Asia, China is being targeted by the Greyhound Racing Industry for expansion with most of the dogs coming from Australia ... click here for more info about Australia or read the background info below for more on the situation in China.

Greyhound Action International and the American European Greyhound Alliance and the ISPCA (Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) are all working hard to try to stop the expansion of greyhound racing to Asia.

The World Greyhound Racing Federation's cranked up publicity machine is working overtime claiming that in such countries the retired greyhounds will be rehomed properly.

There is a rehoming problem in Western countries with sanctuaries heaving with abandoned greyhounds. Furthermore as a direct result of racing, puppies that do not meet racing requirements are routinely killed. Immense cruelty and death are also inflicted on ex racing dogs as they are no longer useful to the industry.

General emails of protest can be sent to the China National Tourism Administration:

webmaster@cnta.gov.cn

 

 

Because it is such a big country we have divided it into sub-sections, to find out more about one of these sub-sections click on their name below.

MACAU | SHANGHAI

CHINESE HEADS OF GOVERNMENT:

click here

Chinese tourist authorities:

click here

Asian Racing Federation:
(in charge of greyhound and horse racing in Asia)

click here

Austrade
(Australian Trade Commission)
In charge of Australian trade abroad

click here

Chinese Embassies

click here

Australian Embassies in China

click here

General emails of protest can be sent to the China National Tourism Administration:

webmaster@cnta.gov.cn

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100% of donations to Greyhound Action International go directly to campaigning against cruelty to greyhounds, galgos and lurchers.

Please send cheques or international money orders to Greyhound Action International,

PO Box 127, Kidderminster, DY10 3UZ.



Many of the greyhounds in china are exported from Australia ... click here to find out more about greyhounds in Australia

BACKGROUND:

Below is an email we recieved on further evidence of the barbaric treatment of dogs in China.

 

CAUTION: The photos from the site are distressing and the eye account witness of slaughter is horrifying. Please do not read if you cannot take it but please pass on to others who do not know this atrocity in China. This has to stop.

http://www.animalsrighttolifewebsite.com/Korea_%20War_%20On_%20Animals%20.htm

"space city" and is capital city of the Liangshan Yi Nationality Autonomous Prefectures in southwestern Sichuan Province, Peoples Republic of China. These are pictures of a market area on an embankment above the river in the old part of town. At the front there are puppies and kittens for sale as pets and further back are about 100 dog waiting to be selected by customers. When selected the vendor puts the dog in a sack and weighs it. After a price is agreed he kills his dog and butchers it ( sometimes in that order, more often in the reverse order). Business was brisk with a dog being killed about every five minutes. There seemed to be two techniques.

The one man technique was to hit the dog twice on the head with a wooden plank which dazed it sufficiently to make it safe for him plunge his knife into its jugular without getting bitten. He then held the dog up by the tail until it bled into unconsciousness-he then proceeded to butcher it with the dog coming in and out of consciousness.

With the two man technique, one man held the dog up by her tail while the other pulled the neck back with a wire around the dogs neck. The first man was then able to reach down again without fear of being bitten, to sever the jugular vein. Since the dog was in no way stunned, she struggled and howled and urinated until passing out. The watching dogs were also shaking and howling. The dog was flung on her back and the butchering began- consciousness returned on lying flat but she was to weak then to struggle much. One of the men laid down his knife and put his mouth to the inside of the dog' s hind leg-I couldn't see what he was doing.

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