I'm so beside myself about this, that I'll probably be completely inarticulate, so please bear with me. I have volunteered for a number of years with a cat rescue organization in northern Virginia, so this horrible situation in Bejing touches an especially raw nerve with me.
Thousands of pet cats in Beijing are being abandoned by their owners and sent to die in secretive government pounds as China mounts an aggressive drive to clean up the capital in preparation for the Olympic Games.
Hundreds of cats a day are being rounded and crammed into cages so small they cannot even turn around.
Then they are trucked to what animal welfare groups describe as death camps on the edges of the city.
The cull comes in the wake of a government campaign warning of the diseases cats carry and ordering residents to help clear the streets of them.
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