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A Tragic Story of Dog
A canine disaster takes place silently at Taicuhng City , a city in Taiwan : the stray-hunters are chasing to hunt stray dogs around the city. Under the authority's pressure, the stray-hunters catch all kind dogs on streets, domestic or stray. Therefore, some groups for animal protection and individuals at Taichung City protest to the City Government. However, their voice only gets insolent response of bureaucrat. Furthermore, these groups decide to continuously fight with the government for this issue. They aggressively collect evidences about the hunting of the stray-hunters under the authority's command and the scandals curbed in the authoritative kennel for stray dogs in Taichung City .
Since he lost his dog, my friend went to the authoritative kennel for it on the afternoon of March 5th, 2006. He witnessed the astonishing tragedy, CANNIBALISM between these stray dogs. I went there at once after receiving this news. There was no any warden in the kennel and the bad environmental health was disgusting. In one cage living over two-dozen cubs, the ferocious picture only appearing on the Discover Channel was witnessed but the scene was not on the savanna of Africa and the actors were doggies rather than antelopes and lions. The reason of cannibalism was they were hungry and they needed foods. In the cage, one cranium without skin and one leg were left and some cubs were nibbling the carcass of the dismembered cub. (See the pictures)
The bowls for food in the cage were totally empty and the excrement was left in one of them. The bags containing the dog foods were also empty. There was a smell of feces and carcass pervading the atmosphere. It was ironic that there was one portrait of Bodhisattva on the wall and some burned joss sticks. I believed that the Bodhisattva had no power to protect these miserable animals and it could not console the soles of dead animals by burning more joss sticks.
I took pictures as evidences and informed to the journalists of ERA news and ETTV, the TV stations of Taiwan , to report this news. (They have broadcasted this news on the afternoon of March 6th.)
After the news is broadcasted, the officials are busy to relieve their responsibilities. The cannibalism took place in the authoritative kennel located on the east side of Taichung City . However, on the morning of March 6th, the related officials guided other reporters to the Lovable Animal Park , which is on the mountain of the west side of Taichung City and the living conditions for stray dogs are better than the kennel. They lie that the news are taken at other kennel for stray dogs and insist there is prejudice existing in some reports for the City Government. However, these officials change their attitude abruptly after the news is broadcasting continuously on the screen at every hour. The Mayor Hu's attitude is key. Because the picture that he cannot answer the journalists' question about this issue is broadcasting, Mayor Hu is very livid and wants to punish the related officials. Not until Mayor's saying do the officials know they cannot conceal the truth.
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