Pet-killing isn’t restricted to just the streets of Shanghai. Such killings have in fact occurred throughout all of China on multiple occasions during the Covid pandemic.
VIVEK SAXENA: The conditions in Shanghai… appear to be growing worse, with accusations — some of then backed by video evidence — now emerging that pet animals are being killed out of the fear they may spread COVID. The South China Morning Post points, for instance, to a corgi who was recorded being pummeled to death with a spade by a residential building guard.
“The corgi’s owners had tested positive for Covid-19 and were being transferred to a quarantine centre. The family was torn between letting the dog go outside in the hopes that it would survive or keeping it inside where it could starve if the family was stuck out of the home for too long,” according to the Hong Kong-based outlet.
“The family decided to let the dog outside before they were quarantined. The video, which has gone viral in China, showed the corgi chasing the van for a short distance as it left. Once the van had driven away, the worker, identified as a gate guard for the complex, hit the dog three times with a spade, killing it.”
After the footage went viral and triggered backlash, a “local official in charge of the community’s affairs told news portal people.com.cn that they killed the dog because they thought the animal posed a risk of spreading the disease,” according to SCMP. “We did not fully consider the issue, and we have told the dog’s owner that we will discuss compensation with him later,” the official reportedly said…
Meanwhile, those residents who test positive for COVID must contend with being dragged off to quarantine camps as their pets are dealt with one way or another. SCMP notes that pet-killing isn’t restricted to just the streets of Shanghai. Such killings have in fact occurred throughout all of China on “multiple occasions during the pandemic.”
“In November of last year, officials in eastern China’s Jiangxi province beat a pet dog to death with an iron rod in its owner’s home after the owner was taken away for quarantine. The officials had promised the owner that they would not slaughter the pet,” the outlet notes.
“At the end of last month, a district in Hebei in north China issued a circular to kill the pet animals whose owners test positive for Covid-19, which received significant blowback and was reversed”… Footage of other pets being mistreated or killed has also emerged, though the stories behind them remain unknown for the time being. SOURCE…
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