Beijing's Cat Death Camps

Sickens me. But I like the live safari feedings. I bet the lions do too. I don't know that I would watch it, but otherwise someone would complain that they are feeding the lions rainforest beef. My first choice would be to let the lions go, let them hunt the zoo keepers and spectators. That's the natural way.

This is sick!!! If I could get my hands on those rotten freaks I would kick thier butts to a stinken other galaxy!!! thiere stinken twisted people!!AHHHHHH!!!!! thyose stiken jerks if I every see them I will kick their butts all the way to the hospita tool!!!!!!!!!!! THEY MAKE ME SO MAD!!!!!!!!!!!

How Sad

Well, my day is officially ruined now.

We're no angels here in North America when it comes to animal welfare, but this is despicable.

Hopefully when China becomes a civil, modern society they will start to respect life a little more... yeah right.

I want to cry... I can not believe this!! sick

All you people better be 100% vegetarian or you have no right to cpmplain about this. The fact is that the animals are going to die anyways. All of you better not have any leather articles either. Otherwise you are a bunch of hypocrites. Imagine a serial killer. Is it justifiable if he first renders the victim unconscious via an injection before murdering said victim? Death is death, no matter the means.

Ron, I am a vegetarian, but I still think you're kind of confusing the issue.

From the article, most of these cats are pet cats that have been abandonned by their owners BECAUSE of a scare tactic by the government.

Also, there's a big difference between quick painless death and long agonizing suffering leading to an ultimate drawn out death.

Think about it this way; if you had no other choice, which of the two would you pick?

My country's Olympic committee has a statement that says that the Olympics will have an impact on Chinese society. I've sent them the link to this story to ask where this fits in, and whom to ask for a reaction.

And I thought my regard for the country of China couldn't possibly be any lower. Bravo, Michael. It's amazing to me how they'll eat just about anything they can get their hands on. It's beyond disgusting.
Looking over at my cat sleeping on my bed, I think to myself, "You little brat. You have absolutely no idea how lucky you are."

This sickens me...

Scary thing, and I suspect it's only the tip of the iceberg. For every story of abuse (human, animal or environmental) we hear coming out of China, dozens, if not hundreds go unreported.

This country is being given the chance to host the Olympics at what cost?

I can has lethul ingeckshun?

Ugh. I have a lot of friends from China and I try really, really hard not to judge the entire population and culture by the actions of a few... well, most... okay, almost all... but d@#$ if this stuff doesn't just get my blood boiling.

This country is despicable in their treatment of animals, humans, and the environment. I'm sorry but that's all I ever see about them. I love that there is at least the effort towards innovation but it doesn't seem like enough most of the time.

This is pretty bad, but not as bad as the Bear Bile Farms or Fur Farms in China. I am ashamed of beings half Chinese. China is a country that cant even give proper human rights, much less animal rights. I hope the country implodes on itself.

Now they are going to have a serious rat and mouse problem - just in time for the Olympics

Amazing how few people are able to think ahead about the unintended consequences of a proposed action.

Cities in nations with highly developed economies have over the last centuries designed public health management systems to balance the tradeoffs. China is only just beginning to catch on to the need to do this with high material consumptions rates. This has all the appearances of a Potempkin Village approach to municipal public health management.

China a growing producer of green house gasses, with a dirty coal plant a week being started up will be particularly hard hit by flooding from glacial melting then drought once the ice is gone and by sea level rise, as most cities are on the coastline the loss of life in china could be over a billion people....... :-)

Wow...China is really rolling out an all out assault on anything and everything in the environment. Guess they're trying to show up the U.S.

I think Ron may be a bit too strict in his definition of hypocrite. I am a vegetarian, but I own some leather things. Does owning a few leather goods put me on the same level as people who commit atrocious acts of animal cruelty like these cat death camps? I don't think it does, and I also don't think I'm a hypocrite for condemning any people involved in this horror.

I agree with the other commenter who said that a quick, painless death- while not a good thing- is far better than a slow, agonizing one.

"It's amazing to me how they'll eat just about anything they can get their hands on..."

Um, what part of this piece was about *eating* cats, or culinary habits of the Chinese? The ridiculous attitude that 'Chinese people will eat your pets" is racism, pure and simple.

But you probably realize that, 'Anonymous', which is why you didn't sign your name to this post.

Thank you very much for sharing this. I truly wish that people would either leave animals alone, or take responsibility for the quagmires that *we* get them into. Full disclaimer: I have two cats which I rescued from the streets, and I'm a vegetarian leaning toward vegan.

Niki, don't feel ashamed. If you haven't done anything wrong, you have no reason. Collective guilt is a very bad concept, and it leads nowhere.

Those that should feel guilty are the individuals involved in this, not a whole nation.

The average chinese citizen has very little say over what the ruling class of the country does, unfortunately. Things are improving as China opens up the the world (just that fact that we now know about some of the things happening in china is progress), and we must encourage positive change.

Not so long as the USA didn't consider people with black skin citizens, so change is definitely possible.

I've just decided to boycott the Olympics

All this for the Olympics. Yes, the sorry sporting event that the world is slowly coming to realize is an irrelevant joke. I look forward to the day when the Olympics are a distant memory.

Replace "cats" with "cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, and fish" and you've got our situation here in the US.

"Replace "cats" with "cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, and fish" and you've got our situation here in the US." - Ross

The US government is rounding up farm animals and stuffing them in cages in preperation for the Olympics!? Farmers fear punishment and imprisonment for protesting? Oh the horror!

I think you're on the wrong band-wagon.

-Lego

""Replace "cats" with "cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, and fish" and you've got our situation here in the US." - Ross
The US government is rounding up farm animals and stuffing them in cages in preperation for the Olympics!? Farmers fear punishment and imprisonment for protesting? Oh the horror!
I think you're on the wrong band-wagon." -Lego

And replace "preparing for the Olympics" with "preparing for dinner." And the animals are already rounded-up in cages and pens. And, for the most part, people are oblivious and love to financially enable this industry to thrive.

I'd say that is the U.S. No?

This is horrific on so many levels, I fail to see the impact the presence of stray cats would have had on the Olympics. Having decided to do this the least the Chinese government could have done was to euthanase the animals humanely.
Are these all stray cats? or have pet cats been included also? If these were mainly strays China should also have been thinking of an education program to promote neutering pet cats, cutting down the number of unwanted pets being abandoned. Wouldn't it be better for most if not all the cats in the country to be wanted and well cared for?

However I can't see a problem with feeding lions live animals. I thought the aim of Zoos was to conserve species whilst educating the public, and providing the animal with as close to a natural environment as possible. Last I checked Lions killed their prey. What causes offence is the enjoyment people get from watching the kill.

While I wouldn't agree that feeding live animals to zoo-bound predators is good clean entertainment for the whole family, I find it rather curious what zoos here do instead.

You see, predators in zoos typically become bored to the point of insanity - pacing and head-bashing are some of the more obvious symptoms. But modern zoos make their animals work for their food - something they would have to do in the wild - to keep them interested. The herbivores have their food hidden in strange places or frozen in ice or stuffed into a box they have to open by force or something. But the predators get dead rabbits tied to a zipline that runs through their little patch of zoo, to simulate their natural hunting. While this works to get them some exercise, I'm not so certain that it keeps their minds active and their hunting sharp. Live rabbits will actively try to get away from a mountain lion at any cost, and won't limit their dodging to a straight line. And while such a thing isn't so humane to the rabbit, it's humane to the lion, isn't it? Moral dilemmas abound!

But you don't need to make this into a sporting event for the public either. The tiger feedings can just as easily happen outside of zoo hours.

I complety agree with you that animals should be treated right, we're the 'rulers' of this earth, we have an obligation to see that animals aren't treated cruelly unnecessarily. But with regards to China, their human rights record is not the greatest, and I think at the moment more attention should be drawn to that fact and petitioning the government to stop persecuting Christians, supporting an economy in which the poor will only get poorer and enforcing a law which results in the murders of thousands of babies.

The issues of our fellow humans should never be overshadowed.

they were just selling them you never show any real harm to them

Oh you people that have never been to China have NO idea just how sick and disgusting they are there. The live feedings and killing the animals is just the very tip of the ice berg.

There are sick people who will sit at a table and watch as they hack off the paw of a live sun bear without a thought to it and then to justify the fact they blow it off as "the culture"

There comes a time when a culture has to move on from barbaric, caveman ways. China refuses to do so because the old comunists are still actually running the country. Yet our factories still go there for the cheap labor.

Did you know that any company that makes items there only have to give the workers a place to live and a meal of chicken feet and rice on top of the 25-50 cents a day. {not to mention the number of poisonings that have gone on to americans} Sure why wouldn't these money grubbing American companies not want to make their product in China all the while on a basic level promoting the Chinese gov't and all they do, no matter what that is.

I despise that government. I can't believe how evil they are. It amazes me to see how open they are about it. control the masses!
I'm going to give my cats some treats.

Everyone keeps bouncing around the idea that this is terribly cruel since it's not fair to the cats who don't really have a fair chance [none of you better keep snakes or some other such animal as a pet, I'd say] and the idea that it's better for the zoo animals and more natural.

The real problem is the zoos themselves. I like zoos that do their part to help endangered species and raise public awareness about the world's animals, but many zoos are downright abusive towards their animals and the animals in zoos, as previously mentioned, often go entirely insane as do caged factory farm animals.

I, for one, boycott zoos entirely. That's really about all I think one could do other than raise awareness and hope for change.

I don't think boycotting the Olympics is the right solution. This stupid little festival is important to a lot of people and has sparked the motion for change in China at the most crucial point, whereas that would not have happened otherwise.

I don't think it's good, but my world didn't come crashing down when I heard of thousands of cats dying in Beijing.

The bigger picture is that cats provide a necessary service to the city by catching vermin. And if there are thousands of cats, that means there is a LOT of vermin . . . I think I'd go buy a cat for my apartment if I was living in Beijing (I bet I could get one on the cheap).

Welcome to China, where our motto is "If it gets in the way of good business, we'll kill it deader than dead!"

that's a very good idea, we invite the goverment of china, to send that campaign to mexico city, we have millions of dogs and cats, all over the mexican territory, and are polluting the air .
where are all ambientalist people that want's to protect the planet?

How the Chinese government allows innocent animals in the thousands to suffer like that unecessarly is beyond me.

What really gets to me though, and what I will probably think about all day is the comment about the bears and their gal bladders. I knew this practice occured illegally in respect to poaching, but I had no idea that so many were kept in cages for consistent tapping of their bile. It makes me ill...I wish I could get on a plane to China and do something.... but if there is anything media and government teaches us, its that we are helpless and must simply confrom to the horror...of course whilst blogging about it and venting behind the scenes. Its so sad.

I was talking more about the horrific treatment of the animals than the reasons for their treatment.

Pigs are smarter than cats, even. So while we sympathize with these poor kitties, little piglet is getting his snout chopped off.

This is gross and so disheartening.

How can we help? How can we take action?

folks, this was only the next logical step after sunshine, puppies, and rainbows were slashed from existence.

Okay, the media is going to pick this sooner or later. But I hearby brand this cat death camp as 'Meowschwitz'

I thought what many of you are saying about the live animal feedings when i first read abotu it - but the thing is that these lions are not wild animals anymore, and simply have no idea what they are supposed to do with the live goats & chickens thrown to them. It was documented (i forget where) that the pack of lions spent hours following & mauling the poor goat before it finally died, and you simply cant say that its natural to throw chickens of rocks into the lions den - the poor animals must be completely petrified and suffer so much as the lions don't know how to take one bite on the back of the neck like wild lions do to put the animal out of its misery.

As well as that issue theres the issue of families going to the zoo with their little toddlers and petting the goats & chickens before choosing which one to throw to the lions - despite being completely sick, think what it must be doing to the children - what chance do they have of growing up 'normal' with a sensible & compassionate head on their shoulders when exposed to things like that as being the norm at such a young age?

and as for the cat issue - dont even get me started - the chinese will never cease to amaze me. I just wish there was somethingi could do directly rather than ranting on the internet about it. I wonder what the Chinese reaction would be to a plane full of Western activists on a mission to 'free the cats!'

Thats it,

Now on for me, no souvenirs of the Olympics, no watching it on TV, and every time I hear someone talking about it, I will show them this article.

We never heard anything like this from Athens, not say Barcelona right. Why but with it?

Hopefully the Beijing Olympics will bring an overall positive to the world. With all this absurd preparation hopefully the world is taking note and honorable efforts like that of Spielberg will continue to surface shedding light on this ridiculous communist state that we continue to enrich.

In case you missed it - NPR interviewed Mark Shapiro, author of exposing a toxic policy...

Its about the absurd amount of toxins that have shown up in American's blood. As the European Union continues to impose strict regulations on the toxic components in plastic.. the rest of the world is following.. EXCEPT for the US. China then exports the toxic stuff to America and OUR health suffers.

Heres the link. If anything just forward to the 30th minute.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16616951

To be politically correct, "I really don't like China" and hope NBC and other broadcasters of the Olympics do not forget to shed light on their manipulation of the clouds to avoid rain, the heavily polluted air that has forced runners to drop out of long distance of races, their weapons involvement in Darfour, the inhumane child labor, torture of dogs and cats.. and lots more... This is the worlds biggest problem…

Poor Cats..

Please sign my petition to stop this cruel
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/
stop-the-beijing-olympics-cat-massacre

Thank you, Elissa

That is by far as an animal lover and activist and used to wanna be a vet growing up but now at 17 switching to journalist/writer has made me really lose so much respect for the chinese not even other asian countries do that.They can by far find a better way to control the problem without massive slaughter.Just because there animals doesnt mean they dont actually speak and have feelings and thoughts.I thought the chinese were supposed to bo some of the most intelligent people on earth-I guess not.Just look at what they did to tibet example by itself.When I do become a successful writer I wanna profile things like this going on in the world so people realize just how violent and unempathetic we humans can be.

The article doesn't focus on the people in China who love cats. While in China, I knew a kind, Christian Chinese lady who would feed stray cats. Some people liked what she did. Other people were angry and verbally harassed her. Some Chinese think cats bring good luck...others believe cats bring bad luck. The cats were systematically removed (mostly killed) from our neighborhood. One cat, who I was close to, had a new fear of people.

Civic duty in China pretty much means supporting the party. Charitable acts--yes, they happen--are not that common. Because this kind-hearted, cat-lover was different, she was singled out. Her nail stuck up and she was going to be hammered down. Thankfully, she did not stop feeding cats and moved to another neighborhood.

Not all Chinese eat cats. The Northern Chinese will not eat cats. (I tried to find cat meat, but I couldn't.) South China I heard does.

Well, I guess the birds, small mammals, reptiles, rodents and rats are most likely cheering. :)

Who wants to bet that the rat population explodes?

Do you think anyone will protest if they round up all the rats, put them in cages and kill them?

I don't think so.

Oh my gosh the second i saw that pictue i just wanted to scream at the people who were doing that, i have three cats and I love them dearly, i hate the fact that they're doing that and is there any possible way we can help?

how terrible. i never would have thought. to think that a country in the world would do this to animals, and only for the Olympics!

This absolutely sickens me. I wish there was a way for the IOC to pull the Olympics for this type of ridiculous cruelty. I mean who really cares if there are cats around the city hosting the Olympics?? Have these people ever been to Greece - original home to the games?? Cats are everywhere!!!

Perhaps the Chinese should be more worried about an outbreak of Avian Flu or the Plague from pests who transmit these diseases, now that the cats are gone.

I really hope the outcry over this influences the Olympic Committee to in future include humanitarian considerations when evaluating prospective cities.

how does that saying go .....never underestimate the power of ignorance in large numbers.this is disgusting.and such a disgrace for china to think that this is their only solution!,

how does that saying go .....never underestimate the power of ignorance in large numbers.this is disgusting.and such a disgrace for china to think that this is their only solution!,

Theres no doubt there will be massive suffering by these cats as here are by most animals in China. Only by voicing our protests can we change their cruel methods of treating animals. WE must try!!

When you kill that many cats in a concentrated region, it will effect both the local rodent’s population & possibly infected fowls. This might place the local citizens at risk of infectious disease. If you recall just before the spread of Bubonic Plague during the mid 14th Century, Cats were routinely eliminated -- for what initially started for political reasons -- essentially eliminated one of the key elements that control rodent population (and their disease carrying fleas). The ease by which this disease spread in Europe was attributed in part by the absence of feline creatures. Recent studies in Europe as far back as 15 years ago, documented the pivotal role Cats played in controlling rodents population, (and their flea hitchhikers), and hence the spread of diseases. Although I haven't seen recent studies lately, it is likely, that this practice will have it's consequences in the near future. Societies or cultures/are judged by how much morality, ethics, compassion and foresight it deals with its problems. I don't think visitors from Europe or America or, for that matter, the rest of the world, is going to really (no, I mean really) care if there are few extra cats on the streets in China.

China fails as a country. Simple as that- China fails as a country almost as much as about 60% of people in this world fail at showing even the most basic of human qualities/ emotions. Its sickening.

if you really want to start making a difference,
STOP shopping at Wal-Mart and value friendly stores,
STOP shopping at the Gap and all the "fashion" stores in your local mall,
STOP supporting China's cheap manufacturing program that cranks out poorly mass-made products.

Buy local, seek out companies that make clothes, ect in the US or Canada. The US economy is already so far in debt to the Chinese government due to this "war"...

this is just sick what they are doing to the poor things. Cleaning them up for the olimpics, thats a really bad excuse for a goverment to come up with.
the people there should stroke a cat and to no how happy you feel while storking a cat and caring for it, but instead they kill them how nice(cough,cough)

Lets all stop buying anything made in China and let us encourage others through out the world to do the same... why not boycott the Olympics? That ought to send a strong message to respect all living creature, otherwise they can take their $ + Olympics and shove it... and they can eat their cheap export of crap!

iI’m never surprised at what the Chinese do any more.
I think that after last summer we should expect allot
of situations that are distasteful to us. It is a shame
that corporate America is supporting the Chinese
no matter what they do. I expect that the cruelty will
continue if we don’t force them to change there culture.

Lets all stop buying anything made in China and let us encourage others through out the world to do the same... why not boycott the Olympics? That ought to send a strong message to respect all living creature, otherwise they can take their $ + Olympics and shove it... and they can eat their cheap export of crap!

Why would you expect any better from the same people who do this?
Warning! Some images are graphic!

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4296982&page=1

The Bodies Revealed roaming exhibit is currently in Kansas City, where the only "controversy" about the exhibit that the media will report has to do with the "good of science", and not about the truth.

The Truth is that the Chinese government falsely charges anyone they choose, imprison them, and then heinously murder and sell the organs/tissues and bodies of powerless human beings.

http://www.kctv5.com/news/15611934/detail.html?rss=kan&psp=news

Let them know how you feel about it here;

http://www.kctv5.com/forums/index.html?q=http%3A//forums.ibsys.com/viewmessages.cfm%3Fsitekey%3Dkan%26Forum%3D993%26Topic%3D17507

Whatever the cats were eating to survive will now propagate unchecked. By the start of the Olympics the area should be swarming with disease carrying rodents and certain large insects. "Black Death" (Bubonic Plague) comes easily to mind. One more in the continuation of displays of a short-sighted, knee-jerk, reactionary "solutions". This same nation mandated population control through one-child-families. When everyone wanted one gender they almost guaranteed themselves no next generation.

So, if they kill all the cats and the (disease-carrying) rat and flea populations explode like it did before the breakout of the Black Plague, I suppose China will succeed in creating a 'memorable' Olympics, if only because a new avian flu or SARS-like disease breaks out. Gaia's population control at work....

This is disgusting.

How can you justify killing 5 million cats with "cleaning up" Bejiing for the Olympics.

Can't anybody stop this?

It is inhumane and a sad excuse for a country to practice their brutality on innocent animals.
I just hope that China will learn and decide to develop into a more civilised society.

The reason that Chinese government is doing this is that there are so many abandoned cats on the street that it's becoming a problem. It has nothing to do with the animal right or human right. We just want to hold a successful Olympic Games.

This is not a matter of animal rights, but a
cruel, cold mentality. The chinese
have exhibited cruel and inhuimane treatment
of humans and animals. Skinning dogs alive
and what they are doing to the cats is
disgusting. I know North America is not
perfect, and I deplore some of the things done
in my country, but they have yet to match the
chinese.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple with this propaganda.

If worldwide citizens can't afford to spade their cats and dogs nor to pay their licence fees....a lot of cats and dogs will be abandoned and eventually they become feral (Wild). Shall we just sit back and allow them to multiply out of control, attack/kill our kindred and spread rabies or other diseases etc...

Your local government employs cat/dog wardens to try and tackle the problem.

Your veterinarian encourages spading your cats and dogs to try and tackle the problem.

Your local cat/dog home and charity are finding it very difficult to re-home these animals.

Over 4000 dogs and 1000 cats were euthanised in the UK. Just think how many were scraped up off the road.

Dog and cat populations have exploded because of our irresponsible actions.

China identified there problem with it ever increase population of feral cats and dogs in 2000.

In 2001, China introduced pet licences in order to identify the domestic pets from the feral cats and dogs.

In 2004, China found the feral cat/dog population quadrupled because the majority of its citizens couldn't afford the pet licence and veterinary fees.

Between 2005-08, towns and cities all over China were instructed to cull any unlicenced cat/dog. One by one each town and city have culled the population of feral cats and dogs.

If asked, China would be very happy to donate ALL of its 5 million cats and dogs to your country if you governement will allow it.

Go to google and type in: stray cats and dogs.

Then do your homework on your own country's problem with cat & dogs populations.

Don't criticize or judge other countries until you have looked at your own governments actions.

Its very funny that in certain parts of the world including USA and Europe that is not illegal to have sex with animals i.e. beastiality and zoophilia.

NOW THAT IS SICK...

this is sickening, i cant even get my head around this. im a huge cat person and i would absolutly die if this were to happen anywhere near me. the chinese government needs to relocate the cats to a different city instead of killing them off. this is ridiculous and heartless.

To Amy:

March 11, 2008 10:03 PM
Amy says:

However I can't see a problem with feeding lions live animals. I thought the aim of Zoos was to conserve species whilst educating the public, and providing the animal with as close to a natural environment as possible. Last I checked Lions killed their prey. What causes offence is the enjoyment people get from watching the kill.
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The fact I know was( from a local Chinese TV) , in a caged-safari bus at the zoo, a box of non-adult little rabbits, about 20 , was distribute to the visitors on the bus(they pay for this), and visitors throw rabbits out of the window behind the cage, to the tiger, who running after the bus.

poor rabbits always get half killed by throwing and hitting the ground, and the tigers were full, they don't eat rabbits, just kill them.

they use non-adult rabbits for adult one will escape.

and the visitors, always including children do so because they already pay.

at that moment, few chinese will rethink, because they never think animals have any right, because human right is always a political taboo.

________

for I am a chinese, always deeply sad with these fact, I hope you foreigners will negotiate peacefully , use love and tolerance, back to the beginning, with both chinese government and people, especially the people.Don't just blame! JUST Blame just get the situation worse.

I think you all know the result of the England and France treat Germany before the Nazi's raising.

what is the world coming too?

I feel deeply shameed that such thing happens in my country.

There are many people here, including me, has a different view to the world and to life compare to "old generation" in China.

We expect change ot the society and enviroment, but we are nothing to the power government.

Even I may be in prison someday because of this comment, as many already in.

I love China, only the land, NOT the GOVERNMENT

oh...this hurt my day =/ ...it just turned it 180 degrees downward...-sigh-....poor kitties..=(

I am 12 and have a veggitarian for 7 years this is horrible. :(

i love cats. i feel sorry for the cats. but not Chinese cat killers

Will humanity ever cease to sicken the me?
The cruelty inflicted should be dealt back to the offender ten fold...

"Will humanity ever cease to sicken the me?
The cruelty inflicted should be dealt back to the offender ten fold... "

Way to have two sentences that when put together are sadly ironic.

I absoluteley LOVE China sooo much!!!!!
But however, i do protst against this.
so many innocent lives lost..
my day has been ruined.
i love kitties and they deserve tlc.
i hope china soon learns that death is not the solution.
i would gladly donte for an SPCA or an animal shelter.
killing is wrong.

What can i say but its horrible and cruel and makes me want to cry ............

Over the years since I was born, I thought China was a great country... But since now I'm older, I know more uncivilized things they are doing there... I'm sick of China as it is right now... They need to report this to the humane society for the benifit of those poor kitties.... Killing will not solve the problem there as destroying one thing becomes more of an problem than it really is ... I hope China knows what there doing.... Next, comes the rat problem... I bet ya!

That is horrible.

this is sick

i personally love cat

thinking about them getting slaughtered makes me want to cry.
this is just wrong

OMG this is the first time I heard that killing cats just for olympics???
i heard and saw the picture of killing cats for foods but not that...
now even the human baby also being kill for food
how can it be??
they are heartless....
my tears almost burst out everytime i saw those
pity animal
they suppose to be at the human pets....

Don't worry - they will all get what they deserve sooner or later. Karma is a wonderful thing, though it makes me feel sick to know this goes on.

I am not a vegetarian. Frankly, I'm actually a hunter - I hunt for food. To me, it is more humane than keeping animals in such conditions as they wait to die. Feed lots they keep cattle in are almost as bad as this, as they force feed the cows on a corn diet that literally rots their insides out. How much chance does the cow have to escape death? How much happiness does it have?

All things die in time. It's the way of nature. But if we're supposed to be "higher" beings, with "superior intellect" and yet end up as the most brutal of animals that live on Earth, I sometimes wonder if it wouldn't be better for the entire planet if mankind were to go extinct.

But ... it will some day. Karma, after all.

This is sad. I am a cat lover and I know its such a fragile specie.

This is how they clean a city? Tell them to go clean themselves!
I hope the cats keep flooding there and they have NOTHING to do about it. And I hope the cats get their revenge.
Is China such a "special" place, that it's too cool to contain cats and dogs? Isn't this world big enough for us to share? Earth is not only for humans, otherwise, why are there cats in it? TO LIVE IN IT! EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON! The animals were brought here for a reason! Animals are here to live with humans, and the proof is: animals have been created on this Earth, naturally. They are not manmade.
They have no right to do this.

Gross...

I feel sick now... and I just ate.

I'm glad I don't live in China and is a cat.

"My first choice would be to let the lions go, let them hunt the zoo keepers and spectators. That's the natural way." - hah! I'm with you there.

This article simply illustrates the utter ignorance of people and how the fact that some people can simply turn a blind eye to things matters. If a high power were to bring this up as an issue, I'm sure China would have to change. Sure, it's a big nation, but it can clean things up another way, right?

Surely they can manage to, with their billions of dollars from polluting our planet, find a new way to place the animals in homes and clean up.
Right?

Me and my friend Autumn are researching cats for a science project and we saw this pic. We went to this site to find out why the little kitties are in cages. They are stupid, sick, uncivil, jerks, upright nasty butt heads who should be trapped in little cages, tortured, and fed to the wild animals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!uhh!!!! Who the hell cares about haveing little kitties rome around Bejing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They were just coming to watch the games not sit aroung saying" OH what a nice city. Oh, but wait, there is too many cats!!!! stupid jerks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOW..stop eating cats..there pets not food

This is just horrible!!! How would you feel if someone just picked up your pet and killed it slowley and painfully just because it doesn't cast a good impresion to other people?

i have to say that the person that says "All you people better be 100% vegetarian or you have no right to cpmplain about this. The fact is that the animals are going to die anyways. All of you better not have any leather articles either. Otherwise you are a bunch of hypocrites"...thats bull shit...u can still care about animals and eat meat and have leather watever...like a wallat or somthing...like i eat meat ans i have leather in my house...but i would give my own life for an animal in need...like cows r bred for milk and meat...cats are not...so anybody can be saddened by this and they dont have to be a vegetarin.

Who are we to come and cage and kill creatures that were here before us. We're monsters the way we treat animals. China just does it more noticeable I suppose.

How rancid.

The Chinese Government has, not least through acts such as this and others too numerous to mention (although the illegal and brutal occupation of the Sovereign Nation of Tibet springs to mind!) lost the Mandate of Heaven. The fear of this loss is what drives the repressive actions of the government, despite its official atheism.

Ok this is wrong and china has gone too far. maybe if everyone who wrote or read a comment(and there are a ton of comments) wrote a letter to the people doing this, they would get so annoyed that they will stop. my dad always says that for every person that does something about a problem, there are always ten more people that feel the same way. if everyone writes a letter once a month, they would be getting like, 1,000 letters a month, meaning 10,000 people are concerned. they would not know what to do. we couldnt possibly get in trouble because if you dont put a return adress on the envelope, then they wont know who sent the letter.

This news is horrible, and i am sending this article to everyone i know so more people will be informed on what terrible things are going on. i cant think of anyone that wouldnt take this serious. its time we started doing something instead of just watching all these bad things happen, but we need more than one person, so join me, and we will shut down cat death camp forever!

disgusting. I'm not a vegetarian, but I can't belive this. I have 2 cats at home, and I would die if one of them died. we saved one from my dad's work because they were going to poison it and we felt sorry for it. I can't stand it anymore. Humans are the destrucion of the earth and you cant be very optimistic about that. I dont like the spesies I am! I mean, if a foirein intelligent creature visits earth what can we brag about? oh, were the only spiesies on tis planet that kills our own kind for the fun of it? or im so pround that we kill so many of the 'infeirior' spesies each day! what? we need the environment and animals. and im sick and tired of the uncivillized jerks who kill for the fun of it. kill for nessesities, not waste. and for the chinese monters that did this....i hope they die in a very very painful way.

The sad thing is that the Chinese people will not see this article, because the government blocks all sites that critisize them...

My goodness. I cannot believe that anyone would defend this. I have a comment to the person who mentions rascism, this sort of this of course provokes rascism.....it is so wrong to think animal rights are any less than humans, and people who think that are arrogant. There is a pecking order in life, but we abuse our status. We cannot see that this is the same as locking up a child, both are defenceless and cannot defend themselves or fight back.

i would like to see these "brave strong men" wrestle a crocodile, or fight a lion without using a weapon.

I am also a vegetarian, and yes I own leather shoes, and I would like to tell you why.....I am a vegetarian as there are perfectly good alternatives to eating meat. I would not buy a leather sofa, and a material sofa is completely comparible, I wear leather shoes as there is no decent alternative to leather shoes. Yes, maybe that is a little selfish, but we all have to be selfish, animals are selfish too.

Not so long ago Women and Ethnics Minorities ahd no rights, but now they have equal rights, and I have no doubt that in the not too distant future animals will also gain rights....we see it happening now. This needs to happen globally.

Thanks

sad

I am a cat lover and if i see another cat treated badly...
u don't even want to know!

> :(
all u cat haters please re think this
any animal should be treated with respect.

The greatness of a nation can be measured by the way, its animals are treated - Mahatma Gandhi.

China is a devil country inhabited by savages. The law of karma is inexplicable. No wonder every now and then one hears about people dying like worms in huge numbers. Where as all 155 survive in a plane crash in America. Why ? One reason is Americans love animals.

So here is my prediction. A big natural calamity heading towards china, in which millions would perish. Who has to be blamed for ? Only the Chinese. And this is called Karma.

Peace

Okay I'm not a 100% humanist, but I do own a cat if that helps. Anyways, I have to say that I agree that is cruel to kill 500,000 animals, but I mean really. An animal is an animal. IF cop kills an attack dog it's bad, but if the dog rips the cops arm off then it's okay to kill the dog. If a 50 people got bit at the Olympics it's okay, but 50,000 cat's put in cages is a whole lot worse. Though still what are they supposed to do about the cats that isn't killing? Spend 1 Million dollars on food or drugs that kill the animals, or just put them out of their misery.
Also, Do I like China? NO! It's a horrible place to live, Smog, cruel government, worse idealism, but that doesn't change the facts. I'm sorry if this statement offends you, but as Ron Demers said "Death is death, no matter the means."

that is soooo sick! How could you treat a poor little kitty like that!? What kind of sick mind sees animals that way? They have just as much right to live in this world as we do. This kind of stuff happens every day every where. This is unjust, and people need to fix this.

I love animals, and they do not deserve this. They haven't done anything wrong. They die because they were born. That is sooo wrong. This is a loss of innocent lives. And yes, animals are in fact, considered lives.

Once agaain, these animals die because they were born. Should the government go around killing random people, just because they are alive? No. Thats Murder. And that is what these Chinese are doing to these cats.

Rest in Peace, all the poor animals who were murdered.

But Please tell me what they should have done that:
A. No person gets bit or sick at the Olympics.

B. costs under 500,000 dollars or 500,000 of the common currency in that country.

C. it is not killing.

Stop pointing fingers unless you can answer this question, and it has to be reasonable.

This story is absolutely awful, I saw it a bit late... wish I hadn't seen it at all... but well
At first when I read this story I wasn't going to say anything at all..
Yes sure it's sad, yes the poor animal suffering.. but i thought surely there are bigger things going on (and not just in China) that rather deserves people's attention.
It seems a little late to start a debate about this now i guess but i really cant hold back.. i was reading through some of these comments here and i found it a bit strange how some of you express your love for kittens and all animals and then you feel like you have the right to talk in such an awful way about the Chinese people in general. Some of this is just pure racism and some of it is even more sad to read than this tragic story you're commenting on.
If you think being a vegetarian makes you any less guilty for all the suffering animals go through.. then don't ruin your reputation by attacking other people's cultures.. and no one should go around pointing out that global warming seems to lead to many deaths of the Chinese people.. it's not anything to joke about.. besides, how many innocent animals will drown then eh?

I am against animal cruelty.. and this story is absolutely disgusting, i agree. If you really want to blame anyone you should focus on the people in charge in these places. Don't attack the whole nation because of it. China has it's good and bad sides.. as does every other country.

SICK!!!! I have 3 cats! Ugh! This is just unbelieveable! Who would do.... THIS do cats? They're as innocent as babies! Save me, I really feel like I'm gonna die! No joke! Poor kitties!

this is horrible

aaaaaw poor cats :-'(

this is horrible...why would some one mistreat a poor defenseless animal..kitties r cute!!! they need to grow up...ow come the goverment is not doing anyting??

My cat is my closest and most loving friend. Even if you look like hell in the morning, cat's don't give a damn what you look like. They just love you back as long as you care for them.

I cannot even understand this. Just looking at the photos, you can see their distress.
I think "sick and depressing" are the only words to sum this up.

Just knowing that this is going on makes me feel tainted in a way. As well as sad. Really sad.
:(

This was supposed to be my good day, now I AM CRYING!!!!!!!

People seem so shocked when they see this, but really it is no different than what we do in Western society; with cows, pigs etc. (Though possibly more humane, except for in America.)

I find it so hypocitical that people say "I can't believe that they'd do that to cat!" and then have a bite out of their hamburger.

EXACT same thing. We merely make judgements by specism, we assume that because one animal is smarter than the other, they have higher rights.

Fuckin stupid.