Petition to stop the Live skinning of animals in China. 2million cats, dogs & other animals are
sadistically skinned & scalded alive, drowned, hanged, stabbed, bludgeoned, strangled,
poisoned, electrocuted, boiled and more every day in China for their fur or be eaten & left to
die slowly in shock & excruciating pain. help them.

China's long history of animal abuse is back in the spotlight as one Chinese county indiscriminately
massacres every dog in sight - more than 50,000 in total and some right in front of their families.
This and other appalling atrocities - such as feeding live sheep and chickens to tigers in zoos and
skinning conscious animals, including dogs and cats, for their fur, which is then exported to the
West - take place because China has no animal protection laws.

Tens of Thousands of Dogs Are Being Clubbed, Poisoned and Electrocuted

In a hideously cruel response to an outbreak of rabies in late July, authorities in Mouding County
in Southwest China ordered the killing of more than 50,000 dogs, including 4,000 who were
immunised against the disease. Officials clubbed many animals to death in the street right before
their guardians' eyes. Animals who were not beaten mercilessly died equally violent, gruesome
deaths by poisoning or electrocution.

PETA's offices have been inundated over the years with calls from people around the world who
are outraged by China's dog "exterminations". Eyewitnesses have noted that many dogs have died
slow, agonising deaths in these mass slaughters, which illustrate the nation's lack of adequate animal
control plans. PETA's offers to assist Chinese officials in implementing such plans - in order to
avoid drastic, widespread killings - have not been accepted.

Chinese authorities pay citizens a 5-yuan (33-pence) bounty for each dog they kill. Surprised that this
nation places a price on the head of "man's best friend"? Don't be. Dogs and cats are even killed for
their fur in China, as this undercover investigation, narrated by Trent Reznor, reveals.
With the world's largest population of sheep, lambs, goats and kids, China is the world's most
prolific exporter of the hides of these animals as well as those of cows. In 2004, Chinese leather
constituted more than one-third of all exported leather in the world.

China's live-animal markets are notoriously cruel. Animals of many species - from cats, dogs, birds
and boars to deer and even reptiles - are confined to wire cages in which they can barely move. Their
slaughter is no less depraved. Animals are routinely skinned alive and hacked apart, piece by piece,
until they bleed to death.

Wild animal parks housing tens of thousands of animals conduct live feedings of lions and tigers so that visitors can watch the gory spectacle.

About 7,000 Asiatic black bears - also known as moon bears - are confined to tiny pens so small that
they can't even move on China's more than 200 bear-bile farms. Although alternatives to their bile - which some people believe has healing properties - exist, bears are still subjected to crude surgeries in order to implant catheters or to create permanent holes in their abdomens.

China supplies more than half the monkeys imported to the US for experiments, and that number has increased sevenfold in the last 10 years.

"Man's best friend" killed for fur? It's not just a bad dream. PETA recently conducted an undercover
investigation into the Chinese dog and cat fur trade to show you what the industry is so desperate to hide.
Even our veteran investigators were horrified at what they found: Millions of dogs and cats in China are
being bludgeoned, hanged, bled to death, and strangled with wire nooses so that their fur can be turned
into trim and trinkets. This fur is often deliberately mislabeled as fur from other species and is exported
to countries throughout the world to be sold to unsuspecting customers in retail stores. China supplies
more than half of the finished fur garments imported for sale in the United States, so the bottom line is
that because dog and cat fur is so often mislabeled, if you're buying fur, there's no way to tell whose skin
you're wearing.

PETA went into an animal market in Southern China and found cats and dogs languishing in tiny cages, visibly
exhausted. Some had been on the road for days, transported in flimsy wire-mesh cages with no food or water.
Twenty cats were forced into a single cage. Because of the cross-country transport in such deplorable conditions,
our investigators saw dead cats on top of the cages, dying cats and dogs inside the cages, and dogs and cats
with open wounds. Some animals were lethargic or frightened, and others were fighting with each other, driven
insane from confinement and exposure.

Up to 8,000 animals are loaded onto each truck, with cages stacked on top of each other. Cages containing live
animals are commonly tossed from the top of the trucks onto the ground 10 feet below, shattering the legs of
the animals inside them. Many of the animals we saw still had collars on, a sign that they were once someone's
beloved companions, stolen to be made into fur coats.