From New York Times:
Wu Tianyu gave fair warning about the odor and then pushed open the heavy metal door to the ground-floor apartment. The smell rushed out, and so did the tiny dogs, tongues wagging, yipping, unaware of their central role in an issue gripping China’s capital city.
The small apartment was the equivalent of a safe house: Ms. Wu, head of a local animal rescue association, had stashed about 10 strays and handicapped mutts. She said the dogs, one paralyzed, another recovering from a broken spine, should be exempt from a new “strike hard” campaign against dogs in Beijing. But she was not certain. [Full Text]
– See China Daily’s for-government story Dog policy ‘not infringing owners’ rights’, a perfect example of not-so-great journalism where out of many paragraphs only one gives a bit of voice to the public, let alone protests:
In articles published on the Internet, dog owners claimed security officers forced them to give up their dogs. They said it was offensive to have their dogs abruptly seized, and claimed that the dogs were being taken away to be slaughtered.
