Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Chinese Dog Adoption

Here's one that just makes my blood boil.

It's not often that dogs get a new life, especially in a country where they can end up on the dinner table, but 30 canines from Beijing emigrated to the United States for a fresh start.

They are the first to leave China as part of a program by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) to relieve crowding at Chinese animal shelters and highlight the growing problem of abandoned pets.
Yes, the IFAW is importing abandoned Chinese dogs, because god knows that there aren't quite enough abandoned dogs in the US to start with. So while these select few Chinese dogs are put up for adoption, how many inconvenient dogs in the US will be put down? Hundreds?

And while these 30 dogs will no doubt be fought over, the adopters could have, and should have, waddled their fat asses down to the local SPCA and adopted a dog that some moron found inconvenient. Perhaps one of those Dalmatians that were so popular when the kid's movies came out.

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