If, as reported in the South China Morning Post, on October 15, the Governor Chris Patten thinks that the present quarantine rules in Britain are 'preposterous', what does he think of his own administration's decision to send thousands of innocent dogs to their deaths by banning dogs from housing estates and allowing tenants only two weeks to make alternative arrangements for their pets? Perhaps I have not been reading the Post carefully enough, but I have not seen a response from Mr Patten to the full page open letter from the Royal Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) published in the Post on September 16. JOHN YAN Central
