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Huizhou Pet Dog Beaten to Death by Health Workers while Owners Are in Quarantine

First in Shangrao, now in Huizhou.

Manya Koetse

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Last November, Chinese social media users were outraged after anti-epidemic workers in Shangrao killed a pet dog while its owner was undergoing quarantine at a nearby hotel. This week, a similar incident has again sparked outrage on Weibo.

On March 2nd, a Samoyed dog was beaten to death by anti-epidemic workers in Huizhou, Guangdong Province. Home security footage of the incident was shared by the dog’s owner (有只雪球), who wrote about it…

Manya Koetse is a sinologist, writer, and public speaker specializing in China’s social trends, digital culture, and online media ecosystems. She founded What’s on Weibo in 2013 and now runs the Eye on Digital China newsletter. Learn more at manyakoetse.com or follow her on X, Instagram, or LinkedIn.

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  1. Markus

    March 5, 2022 at 1:42 pm

    “allegedly was a high chance that the dog also had caught the Covid19 virus”

    it seems like the Huizhou Propaganda Department is spreading fake news: there have been no proven cases of dogs catching Covid19 and becoming infectious themself.
    There are a few cases, where Corona virus could be found when testing dogs of Covid infected people, but in no case the dog was infectious!

    Justifying animal cruelity by adding fake news on top of is something extremely low!

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Dear Reader,

 

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