BREAKING: 5,000 dogs, cats, rabbits, and other animals were found dead at a shipping depot in China. They were left in cardboard boxes without any food or water for roughly a WEEK before their bodies were discovered.
THIS is what the pet trade looks like, and when you buy an animal, you’re contributing to it!
“It was sort of a living hell.” That’s how one witness described last week’s scene at the Dongxing Logistics station in central China, where a minimum of 5,000 dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, and other animals were found dead. “[T]he entire place reek[ed] of rotting bodies,” she said.
The animals—who, consistent with reports, had likely been bought online—were stuffed into plastic or metal cages that were packed in “express boxes” and transported like commodities. They were left within the cardboard boxes with none food or water for roughly every week before being discovered. One witness accused the logistics company of perhaps refusing to log off on the shipment, and a miscommunication may are what ultimately led to the heartbreaking neglect.
5,000 pets including rabbits, cats and dogs are found dead at a depot in China https://t.co/fjJUkBihes
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) October 1, 2020
Of the quite 5,000 victims, some 200 rabbits along side 50 dogs and cats reportedly survived. For the thousands who didn’t, it’s sickening to think about the pain and fear of their final moments—they were surely starving, dehydrated, and suffocating.
While certainly heartbreaking, it’s not shocking that the pet trade leaves dead animals in its wake.
What is shocking, though, is that humans still purchase dogs, cats, or other companion animals online (or buy them at all), knowing that many animals—of all species, sizes, ages, personalities, and energy levels—are already sitting in shelters, hoping to be adopted.
5,000 pets found dead in boxes at Chinese shipping depot https://t.co/d1PN47rk0y
— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 30, 2020
Dogs flown from a breeder in Jordan died at an airport warehouse in Chicago, a California man bought a 12-week-old Yorkshire terrier from an Ohio breeder and therefore the dog arrived in l. a. dead during a crate, and sick and injured mice and guinea pigs are found at PetSmart stores—this incident in central China isn’t uniquely cruel.
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