“Animals Asia Foundation” has recently received hysterical letters from distraught Chinese pet lovers across China who are terrified by some Government departments' new clampdown on unregistered pet dogs. Dogs are being brutally confiscated, in some cases beaten to death in front of their owners, or taken to Government pounds and killed in horrendous ways.

In Guangzhou in particular (a major Chinese city), the licence fee to register pet dogs is an exhorbitant RMB10,000 (US$1,235) for the first year and RMB6,000 (US$741) per year thereafter. Naturally, the fee is beyond the reach of most pet owners and they are living in terror of having their dog confiscated and killed in a brutal fashion.

Some Government officials are enticing people to report on their neighbours who have unregistered pet dogs, by offering to pay them 10% of the fine. Dog killing teams are patrolling the cities looking for unregistered.

Please write a letter to the Chinese authorities in Guangzhou (capital of Guangdung Province) expressing your outrage at this brutal dog eradication campaign.

SIGN THE PETITION!