Good news for dogs – Indonesia just banned the cruel practice of dog and boar fighting. (http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/indonesia-bans-brutal-boar-and-dog-fights/) Yet, as this video shows, dogs are still suffering because of the horrific dog meat trade. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5042541/Horrific-footage-Indonesia-s-dog-meat-trade.html) As the video shows, standards for animal wellbeing in this industry are zero. Dogs are swaddled and bound in bags. The dogs are literally thrown into the back of trucks on top of other dogs. They are awake when they are bound, whimpering and struggling. They are beheaded in front of their companions. These dogs are not spared a moment of pain and fear on their journey to death.
This is not a niche practice, if anything the demand for dog meat in Indonesia is on the rise. The cruel treatment of dogs shouldn’t take cover under the name of industry. Dogs are intelligent, feeling animals whose lives are cut short in extraordinarily brutal ways in the Indonesian dog meat trade.
The video is hard to watch, but please watch and share. It would be easy to forget the plight of dogs in the meat trade because of small gains elsewhere. But this cruelty continues every day, and these dogs must not be forgotten. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5042541/Horrific-footage-Indonesia-s-dog-meat-trade.html)