Stray dogs buried alive in N China causes outrage
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E-mail Xinhua, April 28, 2014
The welfare of stray animals is in the spotlight once again, after around one hundred dogs were buried alive in north China.
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A post on Sina Weibo has appealed for help after scores of stray dogs are seen trapped in a pit near a garbage dump in Alxa Left Banner in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. [Photo/Sina Weibo] |
A post on Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, appealed for help on Wednesday night to save scores of stray dogs trapped in a big pit near a garbage dump in Alxa Left Banner, which is under the jurisdiction of Alxa League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
"Yinchuanshouhuzhedongwuzhijia," or "Home for Stray Animals in Yinchuan," a non-governmental organization (NGO), posted pictures of the dogs in the pit, including a close-up of a baby dog.
The photos were taken by a woman, surnamed Tan, who went to the site near Wuba Expressway with five friends on Wednesday afternoon to search for a pet dog.
"We saw around a hundred dogs in a pit, but we could not get down into it because it was too deep," Tan told Xinhua, adding that they tried to save the dogs using ropes. They saved more than 20.
She said that the dogs must have been in the hole for a long time, because they were thirsty.
A volunteer at the NGO told Xinhua that eight members of the agency went to rescue the dogs at around 2 a.m. on Thursday, only to find the pit had been filled. Several dogs were running around, said the volunteer, without giving her name.
"The pit was five to six meters deep. We could not dig as we didn't have proper tools," she said.
Another group of people went to the site at around 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, but were unable to locate the pit, according to Su Yamu (not her real name). "We later found out that it had been filled," she said.
A number of dead dogs were retrieved from the pit at around 6 p.m. on Friday.
Rumors on the Internet said that the local Chengguan, or urban management officers, had buried the dogs alive, although the city management bureau denied such cruelty.
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