Thursday, March 09, 2023

1,000+ dogs

The news was horrifying when my boss told it to me a couple days ago: in the city of Yangpyeong, a frequent walk destination for me, authorities following a citizen's tip entered a certain property and found over a thousand dead dogs there, left in morbid piles and stacks by a 60-some-year-old man who had been paid, for almost three years, at a rate of W10,000 per animal, to "take care" of dogs that were given to him. ROK Drop has the scoop

Here's an excerpt:

Over a thousand dead dogs were found on the grounds of a house in Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi Province, and police are investigating a man in his 60s on charges of violating animal-protection law.

The man said he collected abandoned dogs and starved them to death, but animal rights activists allege that he was paid by dog breeders to get rid of dogs who couldn’t get pregnant anymore or whose commercial value had dipped.

A representative of animal-rights group Care told cable-news channel MBN that the man was paid 10,000 ($7.60) won per dog to “take care of them,” and he just locked them up and starved them to death from 2020.

Korea Herald

What do you even say in the face of something like that?



1 comment:

John Mac said...

I say lock him up and don't feed him.