Monday, July 09, 2007

Pass the CATsup


I'll bet some of you thought I was joking when I said the Chinese eat cats:
BEIJING, July 9 (Reuters) - The power of the Internet has saved more than 800 cats from being skinned and served up on Chinese dinner tables.

About 30 animal lovers rushed to a parking lot in Shanghai after reading an Internet posting sparked by animal rights activist Huo Puyang that said two trucks carrying cats in wooden boxes had been intercepted, Huo said on Monday.

Huo's daughter-in-law had been looking for their missing pets and stumbled into the trucks, one of which sped away. The daughter-in-law called Huo, whose animal-loving friends then sent out an Internet alert last Friday.


The felines were on their way to the booming southern province of Guangdong, where some residents pride themselves as gourmets who will eat anything that flies, crawls or swims.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

LOL--Hopefully that's not a Chinese cat!

Trader Rick said...

George Bush eats kitties!!