As cat owners ourselves, we are determined to take this further. There is work to be done but the images below are of the typical abuses going on. We are not going to hold back on what we show – sadly, this is the real world in China !
Category: China Cat Torture
Di has forwarded me some info relating to cat abusers in China, and an organisation which is attempting to expose them and what they do to authority.
I have seen a few of the images and it is disgusting. Your help will be required to take action.
This will take a while to complete but I hope to post in the next few days.
Through this site I am going to try and help expose these abusers, as well as trying to get authorities to act – it wont be easy, but ………
Regards Mark
For example:
XU ZHIHUI / “JACK
LATIAO” 徐志辉
- Location: Funan, Anhui, CN
- Status: HIDING
- Conviction: Guilty, detained for 14 Days (August, 2023), Currently in Hiding.
CRIMINAL PROFILE
- Location: Funan, Anhui, China. (Currently in Hiding)
- Cats Abused: Xu has reportedly tortured and murdered thousands of cats.
- Status: ACTIVE (Xu is currently still engaged in cat abusive acts and is an active member/administrator of online cat abuse groups.)
- Conviction: Detained for 14 Days in August, 2023 for the illegal capturing of property (cat). No charges for the abuse of cats.
On March 14th 2023, Xu captured a cow-patterned stray cat and mercilessly tortured it for 36 hours until the cat died. He recorded the event and shared it to “Cat Abuse Groups” on QQ – a Chinese social media app. During official investigations, his phone was found with hundreds of other gruesome videos of cats being tortured. Xu’s wife is aware of his torture acts.
INVESTIGATION: Inside the sadistic world of the gruesome cat torture craze, campaigners call on Chinese authorities to act NOW
Campaigners are calling for the Chinese government to act now following a sickening investigation into a horrific feline torture trend in which internet users pick from sickening menus to watch inhuman abuse of cats.
China Cats Protection, together with the NoToDogMeat charity have been tracking the activities of the Jacklatio group, and a man known as ‘Wang Chao Yi’ or ‘Cat Addiction Therapist’, who are at the forefront of the sick craze.
Campaigners uncovered a sick network which is presented as sites advertising lost and found cats, but the links lead to a dark web of sinister torture, which include kittens being filmed having their limbs severed and cats being stabbed in the eyes.
In one deeply distressing video seen by campaigners, a pregnant cat is sliced open and her kittens are pulled out and killed in front of the desperate animal.
And in another brutal twist, female campaigners who have confronted the torturers have been told to send sexual images, in exchange for the cats not to be killed.
Julia de Cadenet, who founded the NoToDogMeat charity and has been part of the investigation, said: “Our brave activist friends have managed to infiltrate the Telegram chat groups where orders are taken and monies exchanged to torture the animals.
Continue reading (including graphic pictures) at:
Regards Mark
Videos of vigilantes confronting and beating the man have sparked a debate on animal rights in China.
In the chat group, anonymous users compared notes about how they tortured and killed cats for fun, sharing disturbing photos and videos of their abuse. Li, a man in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou, bragged that he had butchered several cats that week and said he planned on adopting four cats and streaming their killing live that night.
Alerted to the man’s plan late last month, a group of animal rights activists took matters into their own hands and confronted Li at a shopping mall on Feb. 25 when he was about to adopt a kitten, according to an account of the event shared by a Beijing-based animal rights group and confirmed by police. In videos that went viral on Chinese social media last week, the man, cornered by the group of volunteers, was roughed up and repeatedly slapped himself in the face. He also confessed to abusing five cats, including pouring boiling water on them.
The case has sparked an online debate about vigilantism and animal abuse in China. While some condemned the activists for resorting to violence, many applauded them for stopping Li in the act and blamed the Chinese government for failing to protect animal welfare. “They gave him a taste of his own medicine. Fair enough,” read a top comment with over 12,000 likes on the platform Weibo.
So far, Chinese authorities have refrained from taking sides. In an official notice issued on Feb. 28, police in Suzhou’s Wuzhong district said they were investigating Li for allegedly killing adopted cats and sharing videos of the abuse, as well as the activists for allegeding detaining and beating Li.
According to Companion Animals Working Group, a Beijing-based nonprofit, Li was part of a group on Chinese social media platform QQ, where dozens of users had gleefully shared videos of themselves torturing cats to death. Some were force fed acid, while others were thrown from heights or burnt alive.
In its posts on the Chinese messaging platform WeChat, the nonprofit said it had received a tipoff about the group’s operation. The nonprofit also shared screenshots of conversations, where a user, allegedly Li, claimed he killed three to five cats per week and posted clips of injured, bleeding cats as evidence.
Animal welfare groups have limited options when they come across cases of animal abuse, Naomi Fu, a volunteer at the nonprofit, told VICE World News. “The first step of getting authorities to open a case is already challenging,” she said.
The nonprofit implored authorities to investigate and hold members of the QQ group accountable, and urged Tencent, the developer of QQ, to stamp out similar operations on the messaging platform. It also renewed calls for regulation and law enforcement to deter abuse.
“China still lacks a comprehensive and effective set of animal protection laws,” Suki Deng, director of the China Cat and Dog Welfare programme at Animals Asia, told VICE World News. “While some municipalities prohibit animal abuse in local regulations on dog management, they lack details and are not enforced effectively.”
Peter Li, an associate professor at the University of Houston-Downtown and a China policy specialist at the animal charity Humane Society International, said the attitude of authorities is also to blame. “Officials in general do not take animal cruelty seriously unless the act also directly impacts public health, public safety or economic interests,” Li said.
Meanwhile, activists have raised alarm over acts of animal cruelty across the country; instances in which even when caught red-handed, perpetrators were let off with only a slap on the wrist.
In 2020, a student at the Shandong University of Technology was caught brutalizing 80 stray cats and selling the videos online. He received psychological counseling and was kicked out by the school, but received no further punishment. In 2021, an investigation by the Chinese outlet Legal Daily found that behind these individual acts was a flourishing underground market, where abusers were paid for producing clips or livestreaming their acts.
More recently, eight cats were found dead—some strangled and some poisoned—on the campus of ShanghaiTech University in February. This has prompted students and faculty members to sign a joint petition urging school authorities to take the matter seriously and expel the student accused of killing the cats.
Some measures are on the cards as China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress, meet in Beijing for their annual session this week. Zhao Wanping, a delegate and agricultural scientist, has proposed the introduction of animal cruelty laws, as well as a crackdown on the slaughter of dogs and cats and the sale and consumption of their meat across the country, citing how the illicit trade could be a public health risk.
While China reclassified dogs as pets instead of livestock in 2020 in response to the pandemic, only some cities, such as Shenzhen and Zhuhai, outright banned the eating of dogs and cats.
But it remains to be seen if Zhao’s proposals will be adopted.
“The Chinese government has been hesitating to take legislative actions to outlaw animal cruelty largely because of economic concerns,” said Li, of Humane Society International, citing fears that costs of farm animal products could go up because of the need to improve conditions. “Some productions, such as foie gras and bear farming, would have to be shut down.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7bq53/animal-abuse-china-cat-abuse-suzhou
A Man Said He’d Adopt Cats and Torture Them in a Livestream. Then Vigilantes Took Action.
According to Companion Animals Working Group, a Beijing-based nonprofit, Li was part of a group on Chinese social media platform QQ, where dozens of users had gleefully shared videos of themselves torturing cats to death. Some were force fed acid, while others were thrown from heights or burnt alive.
In its posts on the Chinese messaging platform WeChat, the nonprofit said it had received a tipoff about the group’s operation. The nonprofit also shared screenshots of conversations, where a user, allegedly Li, claimed he killed three to five cats per week and posted clips of injured, bleeding cats as evidence.
CAT MEAT – When Central Europeans’ favorite pet ends up on the plate in some countries
Many people around the world can no longer imagine life without the cat as a loyal companion.
In Central Europe, especially in Austria and Germany, the sweet velvet paws have even replaced the dog as the most popular pet.
They enrich our existence with their unmistakable nature, but their individual character and are pampered and looked after by us.
Not so in large parts of southern China, northern Vietnam, Korea and Peru.
There, cat meat is still seen as a natural food and remedy.
The cat has the same status there as dogs, which unfortunately are also consumed.
The keeping and the cruel slaughter of the animals look accordingly.
In southern China and northern Vietnam, cat meat is considered warming in winter.
The cat’s stomach and intestines are eaten, and the meat is often turned into meatballs while the head is thrown away.
According to a market analysis published in February 2020, 8% of the people living in Hanoi have consumed cat meat in their lifetime (!!!)
There are professional cat catchers in the Chinese city of Pukuo.
They regularly transport cats to the southern province of Guangdong, where they have become scarce since they were used as food.
In Korea, cat meat is sometimes cooked into a tonic for nerve pain and joint inflammation, but the meat itself is not very common as a food.
Cat cooking techniques will be demonstrated at the Peruvian Santa Efigenia Festival in a town in La Quebrada in September.
According to a report by “Four Pows” around 10,000,000 cats and dogs are slaughtered in Southeast Asia every year.
Four Pows published the market analysis “The Dog and Cat Meat Trade in Southeast Asia: A Threat to Animals and People” in February 2020 and, together with the “Change For Animals Foundation”, calls on the Vietnamese government to reinstate the previously applicable government laws that have specifically banned the trade in cat meat
In Germany, for example, the consumption of cat meat and its import and export is prohibited by the Food Ordinance, in Austria by the Animal Welfare Act.
In China, a nationwide dog and cat meat ban was enacted in May 2020, but this is hardly controlled, as can be seen from the fact that the largest annual dog massacre, the “Yulin” slaughter festival, took place unmolested despite the ban.
Dogs and cats are still being slaughtered and eaten, although many Chinese are against cats becoming increasingly popular pets and Chinese animal welfare organizations rioting.
Our position on this cruel issue is clear and precise: the slaughter of cats and dogs is globally prohibited and severe penalties are imposed if it is violated.
The same applies to the miserable attitude and lack of appreciation for living animals.
And we make one thing clear in advance: Before some people write that we should rather look at the slaughter of “farm animals” because they are also treated very cruelly, take a close look at our site !!!
We do that again and again because we don’t make any distinction between species.
For us, all animals are the same.
But this article is now devoted to the cat and the cruel ways it is treated in some places.
You can read about other animals in other articles.
We thank you for your understanding and ask you to sign the following petition on this topic:
https://help.four-paws.org/de-DE/stoppe-den-hunde-und-katzenfleischhandel-s%C3%BCdostasien
https://www.facebook.com/marschfuerdietiere/
And I mean…As soon as such articles (mostly accompanied by petitions) appear, the wave of outrage with comments in animal welfare groups immediately begins
They have dedicated themselves to the task of explaining to the Chinese and other Asians that instead of dogs they should finally eat the right animals: cattle, chickens, pigs … just like normal people.
And that’s because we Europeans are firmly convinced that our animal protection laws are way ahead and can therefore dictate to other countries which animals they are allowed to eat.
We often refer to our Animal Welfare Act. And that says:
“Nobody should inflict pain, suffering or harm on an animal without a reasonable cause”.
But the trick is that it is so cleverly worded that, in terms of animal welfare, it is not even worth the ink with which it was signed.
Otherwise, and if we should decide to take it seriously, it would really be forbidden in the end animals to torture and brutally murder in order to eat them.
We reserve the right to decide for ourselves who the “reasonable cause” is.
What does homo sapiens have that other animals don’t?
He has rights! And lots of it. The right of the fittest, for example.
So we use all rights and all kinds of ways to torture animals, to enslave them in order to eat them!
We can destroy any animal because we are stronger.
And we take this right seriously. So serious that we even consider it the duty of the strong to eat the weak ones for a “reasonable reason” (pleasure) under all suffering and torture.
Except for dogs and cats, of course.
It is now a very common fact that the pigs killed here are more intelligent than dogs (not that intelligence has to be a mandatory criterion in order to be murdered or not).
That is why the argument among animal rights activists seems to be particularly widespread that it is not the killing that is criticized, but only the torture. It’s about torturing!
So the outrage gets a rationalization.
In the future, outrages and petitions would completely fall through if Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese … etc would refrain from eating dog meat.
That wouldn’t change the number of animals tortured and eaten, but it would at least be comforting to know that they are now eating the right animals, just like us.
My best regards to all, Venus
World Animals Voice 