It is heartbreaking to watch dogs cruelly mistreated in Korea.
Dogs are not treated as living creatures in Korea?
They are just lucrative sources for dog farmers, breeders, government-assigned shelter runners?
Warning: The images below can be very disturbing.
Dog-meat Farm Case I
A mother dog nursing her puppies by the side of a dead dog body
The owner of these dogs is a typical dog meat vendor, having run a dog farm at Changsoo-Dong,
In May 2005, the dogs were removed to the current place by the officers, which was temporarily arranged on the road, and the conditions for the dogs have become much more horrific. Locked up in limited pens, the dogs are left on the asphalt and exposed to rain and snow. The officers did not install windbreaks nor roofs, because to them dogs are only stuff like canned products stacked on shelves. The dogs had to spend the harsh last winter in this horrible environment, and many of them could not survive.
When animal protection groups visited the site in March 2006, they noticed a number of injured dogs. Due to fights among them, which is not uncommon in dog farms, some dogs had no ears and/or no tails, and some were limping. On the asphalt with no drainage, their bodies were covered with their own feces and decayed food waste. Infected with scabies and other skin diseases, their skin was rotting with pus all over their bodies. The only food available, if that can be called food, was decomposing food waste. Cannibalism was occurring here and there, and new-born puppies were being eaten by starving dogs.
Dogs are suffering scabies and other skin diseases and many are also injured.
The dogs have to survive on decomposing food waste.
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Dog-meat Farm Case II
In November 2005, Incheon local government demolished a dog farm in Sankok-dong, by an administrative order, and moved the dogs to a nearby place in order to build a park on the site where the farm used to be. According to the farm owner, some 100 dogs were killed during the execution process where heavy equipment was used to destroy the cages. The officers forced the dogs into cages, where they can hardly breathe, with their necks and backs bent over.
Incredibly, they have been suffering these horrible conditions for 5 months. Some dogs are locked up in wooden boxes with no sunshine and ventilation. When the boxes were uncovered, none of them tried to get out. They have been kept in the boxes ever since they were very young, and did not know how to get out. New born puppies were also confined in the boxes.
Some dogs were noticed having hernias, as they were not able to move their limbs in cold temperatures. The day after the animal protection groups visited the scene, the dog owner pushed the hernias back into the dogs’ stomachs and sewed them with no anesthesia.
These cruelties to animals are very common in Korea, but there is no way to provide legal protections for abused animals. The maximum penalty against animal abuse is only $200. Currently it is impossible to take temporary custody of abused animals to ensure their safety without the owner’s permission, no matter what kind of abuse the animals have suffered. The Korean government has refused to prescribe giving refuge to abused animals
In 2004, the Korean government announced the Animal Protection Law to be revised, and since then has issued several revised bills. However, each time a bill was released, it had gone from bad to worse due to the pressure of interest groups. The latest bill is not for protecting animals. It will be a “law to protect interest groups.”
The Puppies died of hunger and cold.
Some dogs are leashed to trees, exposed to rain and snow all year round.
These puppies had been locked in the box since birth.
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Dogs kept in boxes
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