July 10, 2007, 8:00AM
Online campaign saves Chinese cats from the cooking pot

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SHANGHAI, China — Chinese cat lovers mobilized online to save a truck load of cats from the cooking pot, a newspaper reports.

Veteran Shanghai cat rescuer Duo Zirong started off her mission recently when she called police to stop a truck stuffed with some 800 live cats, the China Daily said.

The standoff happened at a parking lot in a southern suburb of Shanghai. It continued for hours while cat lovers spread word of the incident online, eventually raising $1,320 in donations to buy the whole load.

They now hope to place them in homes after posting their pictures and profiles on the Internet.

"They were so frightened," the report quoted one of the rescuers, Huo Puyang, as saying.

"Some bit people when they tried to let them out of the boxes. Some still hide in dark corners and will not come out for food," Huo said.

Cat meat is considered a delicacy in southern China and cats are sold live to markets where they are slaughtered fresh for customers.

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Hardly a delicacy in many parts - it's just meat. I've been in multiple restaurants and markets in Shunde (Guangdong province, south eastern part of China - sitting in the Pearl River delta) where there were cages full of live dogs, cats, birds, and snakes right alongside the aquariums full of alligators, fish, beetles, eels, and shell fish of indescribable size and color. Walk in, pick your entrée, and it's slain, cooked, and served within minutes.

Saving a single truck load of cats isn't going to change the fact that a given culture accepts as food some animals that others see as pets. I don't understand why there is outcry over cats in China, but not over horses in Canada.....

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1961 220b: first project car - sold.
2000 CLK 430: first modern Benz - sold.
2001 CLK 55: OMG the torque!!! - sold
1972 280SE 4.5: Baby Gustav
1991 300TE 4Matic: Gretel the Snow Bunny - sold
1978 300SD: Katz the Free Man - given away
1980 Redhead: Darling Wife

i won't eat anything that has eyes....

This happened right after China executed the food and drug safety chief....well cat's out of the bag now!

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

I love to eat that if it's properly prepared.

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

Not even fish or potatoes?

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

Yeah,what's that spicy stuff,catn....no,catdip!!!

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There are many of us vagitarians around here, I suspect.

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

nope.

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

Ya like cous-cous?

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I did until I discovered I couldn't eat anything that had wheat or flour in it- due to the celiac sprue disease I have...my arteries will thank me in the long run.

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

My wife likes it,but she insists on half,so I give her just cous.................

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Maybe it's time for me to change my breakfast of cold pop tarts and toxic shock coffee to something better.

Let's see, how about a nice, big, organic..............bowl of .........dirt.


........And a glass of wood........

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

the cats, dogs, etc. that you find in most restaurants in China are strays that they catch on the streets, and then subsequently sell to the restaurants as food...it keeps the street clean, and provides money/incentive to people who actively go out onto the streets to find stray cats...seems to me to be a better way to control animal population vs. the method we do here in the US/Canada, where our tax money is used to fund pounds/neutering programs/adoption programs/etc. furthermore, when the animal isn't adopted, they are put down...

I think the protesters in China should focus their energy on teaching the Chinese to tag and neuter family pets...and to make these so-called "scouts" who comb the streets for stray animals to check for tags and return family pets...there were a lot of issues with family pets/cats who roam the streets at night being caught and sold as food because they didn't have any identification...

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"Man can't live on pu*** alone."
"There will be a pu*** in every pot."
"If you don't eat your pu*** you can't have any meat. How can you have your meat if you don't eat your pu***?"

Shall I continue. Maybe not. I apologize to the starving pygmies....

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No matter how many times you explain it to me, I'm still right.....Surf-n-Turf