• Dog Cull To Fight Rabies - August 1, 2006 - A county in south-west China has ordered all 50,546 dogs to be killed to fight a rabies outbreak which has killed three people, state media say. It has taken five days, but authorities in Mouding County in south-west China say they have killed almost all of the 50,000 dogs in the area. Some of the dogs were clubbed to death in the street as their owners watched. Over 4,000 dogs that had been inoculated against rabies were also killed. - Read the entire article HERE
   
• Second Dog Cull Announced - August 4, 2006 - Officials in Jining, in eastern Shandong province, said 16 people had died of the rabies this year. They said they would kill all dogs within five km of 16 villages where rabies had been found, suggesting 500,000 dogs were under threat.  The move comes days after 50,000 dogs were killed in south-western China in response to a rabies outbreak.  - Read the entire article HERE
   
• Dog Culling Begins in Beijing - On November 7, 2006, a dog-culling campaign began in Beijing, affecting large parts of the city (strikingly similiar to the same things that occurred in Athens prior to their Olympics as the host city).  Best Friends has been receiving emails from many individuals in Beijing and throughout China asking for help in stopping the campaign of seizing dogs. These calls for help state that private homes are being entered, and that people’s dogs are being removed, taken away and presumably being killed. Street dogs are also being rounded up. In Beijing people are permitted to own one small dog. Small is defined as less than 35 cm (14”). The dog must be licensed. City officials have begun entering people’s homes and confiscating all “illegal” dogs, that is those that are unlicensed, or larger than 14 inches or the “extra” dogs in homes with more than one dog. - Read the entire article HERE
   
• China Halts Dog Cull After International Uproar - December 21, 2006 - YARMOUTH PORT, Mass., Dec. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Thanks to thousands of letters from concerned animal lovers around the world, including from within China, the anti-dog crackdown in Beijing has been officially stopped. According to the South China Morning Post, Chinese President Hu Jintao "was unhappy about the complaints and international media coverage" of the crackdown and put a stop to it. - Read the entire article HERE

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