Volunteers break into Tianjin shop to rescue animals
A group of cat lovers seized about 400 felines from a Tianjin wholesale market to prevent them from being sold for their fur and meat.
Volunteers from Tianjin's 'I Cat Home' and Beijing's China Small Animals' Protection Association broke into the shop on Saturday afternoon to rescue the animals and became involved in a fight with police, the Beijing News reported yesterday. The cats were transported to Beijing on Sunday.
The newspaper said the volunteers might be sued by the cat vendors for compensation and prosecuted for attacking police officers.
But the rescue mission's organiser, Wang Yue, of 'I Cat Home', said that only the Tianjin group took part in the mission and they did not attack police.
Ms Wang said one volunteer was injured by police and was still in hospital. She said the group first learned late last month that a shop in the wholesale market was keeping more than 400 cats in small cages, but the police and government departments said there was nothing they could do about it.
