DOG owners in the city have been warned against poachers who kill stray or pet dogs to sell them to eateries for the winter season.
One man, Zhu, told Thursday s Daily Sunshine that his father was walking their pet dog in Minzhi Subdistrict, Bao an District, on Tuesday when the dog was hit in the front leg by a flying needle and died at the scene.
The dog was buried beside Bulong Road but, when Zhu returned two hours later, he found the dog s body had been dug up and taken away.
Zhu said he suspected that someone had sold it to a restaurant.
Workers at a construction site on Bulong Road said they saw three men dig up the dog and take it away.
Zhu s neighbors said they had lost five dogs since November.
A 15-kilogram dog could fetch 400 to 500 yuan (US$60-75) at market, an investigation conducted by Daily Sunshine reporters found.
Head of the city s animal health monitoring station, Feng Weiquan, said sodium cyanide is usually used to poison dogs, which die almost instantly. It s harmful to eat the meat of poisoned dogs and high temperatures [in cooking] would not reduce the potency of the poison, Feng said.
He warned people against eating dog meat from suspicious sources.
(SD News)
