Chinese rescue workers stealing prized Tibetan Mastiff puppies from Quake zone?!
Here’s a post from Woeser’s blog about Chinese rescue workers in the earthquake zone stealing valuable Tibetan Mastiff puppies from the earthquake zone in Kyegundo. Interesting to note that she says: “The big stores selling Tibetan Mastiff dogs near Lhasa are all owned by the members of the Fire Department and Border security department.”
Rescue workers steal Tibetan Mastiff puppy
Chinese rescue workers putting Tibetan Mastiff puppy in van
Some rescue team members steal Tibetan Mastiff puppies from the Quake struck area. Yushu area’s Tibetan mastiff is very famous and raised in many Tibetans homes there. The first photograph, taken at 4:23 p.m. on the April 17, shows three “Fire Rescue” members in orange clothing and smiling, preparing to put a Tibetan Mastiff puppy in a car.
The second photo, shows seven “Fire Rescue” members in orange clothing pointing to and talking about the stolen Tibetan mastiff puppy, as an armed soldier grins nearby.
Some Internet users who read the message on my Twitter, responded saying that there is a news piece about the rescue of Tibetan Mastiff dogs. According to me, this news is a bit illogical. Even if the Tibetan owners of the Tibetan Mastiff dogs have perished from the disaster, they can be given to another surviving Tibetan from that area. Who does not know the worth of the Tibetan Mastiff dogs? The big stores selling Tibetan Mastiff dogs near Lhasa are all owned by the members of the Fire department and Border Security department. They sell the Tibetan Mastiff dogs at a very high price. Last year in September, a Chinese businesswoman from Xi’an spent four million yuan (more than US$500,000) on a Tibetan Mastiff dog and had 30 Mercedes-Benz cars to escort it from the airport. (http://www.wayangtimes.com/rich-chinese-woman-pays-more-than-us500000-for-rare-tibetan-mastiff-dog.html ) This news was circulated all around. The Tibetan mastiff dog is extremely coveted by so many people.
A friend who just left Yushu called me to say that in the morning, he came very close to being a bitten by a big and fierce Tibetan Mastiff but, fortunately, a Tibetan person was able to drive it away and save him. He also added that in the affected area, there were many Tibetan Mastiff dogs running around everywhere.
Tibetan Mastiff dogs are the most loyal dog to its owner. In the earthquake, so many people were killed and the surviving Tibetan Mastiff dogs are becoming almost mad with sadness. At the same time, these Tibetan Mastiff puppies are helpless like a surviving child but it’s beyond comprehension how they have become a coveted object for these people, who turned out to be the members of the rescue team. The rescue team members, instead of the digging out people from the rubble, are stealing Tibetan Mastiff puppies. This is very infuriating.
These days in the Yushu, Tibetan people are talking about these rescue members stealing Tibetan mastiff dogs. They are very dissatisfied with this.
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Is anyone feeding the homeless dogs?
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