A Person in China Followed His Lost Cat’s GPS & Found The Cat in Meat Factory

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Zhi Hao
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It’s an utter nightmare for any pet owner.

Imagine losing your beloved animal, having to track it down and reaching the specified location only to find out that you’re at a meat factory.

One that appears to dabble in dogs and cats, no less.

Even slasher flicks weren’t quite that sick.

But we haven’t touched on the worst part.

While you have the consolation of it merely being a wild thought…

Somewhere around the world, a particular individual has experienced that fear-invoking notion… alone.

A Person in China Followed His Lost Cat’s GPS & Found The Cat in Meat Factory

According to South China Morning Post, a cat owner in Shanghai had tracked down their missing pet at a Guangdong market – 1,500 kilometres away from home.

Yuanhui Livestock Trade Market is suspected of retailing dog and cat meat. The market has since been shut down.

Yuanhui Livestock Trade Market began operations in September with a licence to sell livestock including chickens and ducks.

According to the news report, the owner made the bone-chilling discovery with the help of GPS technology and promptly alerted the authorities.

Two activists made their way down the next day, with government officials the following suit later on.

They purportedly found five cages containing around 300 cats and dogs in one shop at the livestock market.

Aside from the heavy stench throughout the shop, tools that were regularly employed to kill animals were found at the scene. Several cats still had their collars on.

During the raid, the shop owner was not present.

Investigations are currently ongoing, though the police are reportedly unable to prove that the animals were kept for their meat.

It’s also unclear whether the owner managed to retrieve his or her missing pet.

Shut Down

Stalls at the market have since been shut down, with around 235 cats seized in a raid.

The cats were subsequently handed over to a professional organisation.

“To put the cats in better care, we have negotiated with the volunteers (animal cruelty activists) to transfer the cats to a professional organisation,” the government announced on Weibo.

“At the same time, our market supervising department is organising a check on all markets in the city.”

The fate of the retrieved dogs, however, is currently unknown.

Change In Law

In May 2020, Shenzhen became the first city in China to restrict the sale and ingesting of dog and cat meat.

The move came after the emergence of the COVID-19 outbreak, which was linked to wildlife meat.

Since then, Chinese authorities have banned the trade and consumption of wild animals, and excluded cats and dogs from a “white list” of animals permitted to be raised for meat.

The draft “white list” includes pigs, cattle, goats, donkeys, rabbits, chickens, ducks, geese, pigeons, and quail.

The news attracted the approval of numerous animal-rights activists, including Karen Mok of God of Cookery fame.

However, there is currently no unified national ban in place – which has led to the continued consumption of dog and cat meat.

Most of the killed animals were either taken from pet owners or ‘taken in’ as strays.

Admittedly, these cruel aspects come as no real surprise, considering how such practices have been prevalent for long before –  having been incorporated in ‘festivities’ such as the Yulin Festival.

In 2019, video footage of a dog being blow-torched alive surfaced on the Internet, prompting calls for an end to the festival.

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