BEIJING -- Hundreds of dogs being trucked to Chinese restaurants were
spared a culinary fate after about 200 animal lovers mobilized to stop them
ending up on dinner tables, state-run media reported Monday.

A truck crammed with the dogs was forced to stop on a highway in eastern
Beijing by a motorist who swerved his car in front of the vehicle then used
his microblog to alert animal rights activists, reports said.

The dogs, many apparently stolen from their owners, were being transported
from the central Chinese province of Henan to restaurants in Jilin province
in the northeast, the China Daily said. It said 430 dogs were rescued,
while the Global Times put the number at 520.

Eventually, about 200 animal lovers and activists gathered around the truck
in eastern Beijing during Friday's drama -- and after a 15-hour standoff
that jammed traffic the dogs were freed early Saturday when an animal
protection group purchased them for 115,000 yuan (US$17,600), the Global
Times said.

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Alison,

"Alison" wrote in message ...
BEIJING -- Hundreds of dogs being trucked to Chinese restaurants were
spared a culinary fate after about 200 animal lovers mobilized to stop them
ending up on dinner tables, state-run media reported Monday.

A truck crammed with the dogs was forced to stop on a highway in eastern
Beijing by a motorist who swerved his car in front of the vehicle then used
his microblog to alert animal rights activists, reports said.

The dogs, many apparently stolen from their owners, were being transported
from the central Chinese province of Henan to restaurants in Jilin province
in the northeast, the China Daily said. It said 430 dogs were rescued,
while the Global Times put the number at 520.

Eventually, about 200 animal lovers and activists gathered around the truck
in eastern Beijing during Friday's drama -- and after a 15-hour standoff
that jammed traffic the dogs were freed early Saturday when an animal
protection group purchased them for 115,000 yuan (US$17,600), the Global
Times said.

More here -


http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2011/...r-table-china/

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Alison,

Is the problem that they are stealing people's pets, or that they are eating
dogs? I've got a problem with one of those things, not so much with the
other.

"Phyrie" wrote in message
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Is the problem that they are stealing people's pets, or that they are
eating dogs?
I dont know.

"Phyrie" wrote in message
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I was asking YOU, not asking about the article's opinion. Sorry that
wasn't clear. I assume (there I go with ASS-uming again) that you have a
problem with the subject matter, or you wouldn't have posted the link.
My question was directed towards you, not the article. I should have
said, "Is YOUR problem that they are stealing pets...".


I posted it because it was in the news and people might be interested
just as other people here post links that are in the news and think we
might find interested.