The cages contain dogs awaiting slaughter. Puppies were saved, and the beauties' breast enlargement products. In order to prevent the dogs from being transferred, dozens of animal protection volunteers "surrounded" the dog meat shop, hoping the owner could give an explanation. The two sides remained at a stalemate for more than an hour with no results. The owner believed that his operation was legitimate and there was nothing inappropriate. However, the animal protection volunteers believed that the store's unauthorized slaughter of dogs without quarantine was illegal. The owner angrily pulled down the roller shutter, preventing the volunteers from entering the dog enclosure area. Dozens of volunteers divided into several groups to guard the front and back doors of the store to prevent the owner from transferring the dogs. Under the situation where both sides were at an impasse, some animal protection volunteers called the Haikou Food and Drug Supervision and Animal Quarantine departments to report the situation.
Our newspaper, Haikou, January 17th (reporter Wang Chengxian) "The dog meat shop often echoes with the cries of dogs. Upon investigation, I found the scene of this dog meat shop slaughtering dogs very bloody and cruel, and those dogs have not been quarantined. If customers eat something wrong, who will be responsible?" Regarding these issues, Mr. Xing from Haikou invited nearly 40 small animal protection volunteers to come to this dog meat shop in Donghu to stop its private slaughter behavior, successfully rescuing more than 20 dogs awaiting slaughter.
"This situation should have been rectified long ago." The law enforcement officers of the Haikou Animal Epidemic Prevention and Quarantine Station who arrived at the scene said that under normal circumstances, operators need to apply for quarantine to them, but as of now, no dog meat operator has voluntarily applied for quarantine. It is understood that there are no fewer than 50 dog meat shops in Haikou, and all the sources of dog meat have not been inspected by relevant departments.
After negotiation, the owner of the dog meat shop agreed to abandon these 20+ dogs and promised not to operate dog meat anymore. Subsequently, the volunteers pooled money to give the owner some compensation, took the dogs away, handed them over to the Hainan Small Animal Protection Association, and sent them to the stray dog base for adoption.
Mr. Xing told reporters that their animal protection organization frequently received complaints from citizens about this dog meat shop. Not only is the scene of slaughtering dogs very bloody, but also the slaughtered dogs have not been inspected by relevant departments, making it difficult to ensure the safety of dog meat. "We are not against eating dog meat, but we don't want citizens to eat unquarantined dog meat with unknown origins, which endangers public health. There are many cases domestically where eating problematic dog meat has caused deaths," Mr. Xing said.
Haikou volunteers "encircled" the dog meat shop, and the owner helplessly promised to change careers.
At around 10:00 am on January 17th, dozens of animal protection volunteers in Haikou gathered at the "First Dog Meat Shop of Haikou Donghu" near Donghu. Previously, they announced through Weibo and the animal protection QQ group that they would stop the violent dog-slaughtering actions of this Donghu dog meat shop. These volunteers held the "Imperial Sword" - the Notice of Six Ministries of the State on Deepening the Crackdown on Unauthorized Slaughter and Strengthening Meat Hygiene Safety Special Rectification Actions and the newly issued "Dog Quarantine Procedures". "This is the legal basis. Since certain functional departments either ignore or neglect the management of uninspected dogs, we can only rely on civilian power for intervention," said animal protection volunteer Mr. Xing: "We citizens have the duty to manage this matter."
More than an hour later, the Meilan District Food and Drug Inspection Team and the Haikou Animal Epidemic Prevention and Quarantine Station law enforcement officers successively arrived at the scene. The Meilan District Food and Drug Inspection Team law enforcement officers took statements from the person in charge of the store and required the store to quickly handle the annual review procedures for the health permit. "We can only supervise and investigate the health permit of this store; the rest is not within our jurisdiction," a staff member said.