Online users shocked at cruel plight of abandoned dogs
The video depicted the terrible plight of the dogs after their owner left them. It was broadcast on a news programme by Chinese Central Television on Monday.
A video clip of dead and starving Tibetan mastiffs abandoned in Hubei – and broadcast last Saturday – has attracted widespread sympathy and condemnation from Chinese internet users.
The video depicted the terrible plight of the dogs after their owner left them. It was broadcast on a news programme by Chinese Central Television on Monday.
Three mastiffs can be seen locked in a cage – two lying dead on the ground. A voiceover in the CCTV video said they had refused to eat food provided by strangers and starved to death waiting for their owner to return.
Only one dog in the video is alive. It was very weak and demoralised, but still able to eat.
According to the TV programme, their owner, surnamed Peng, rented a kennel in Huangshi in Hubei province, last May for the mastiffs. The lease expired last Sunday. The owner, on the run from his creditors. then abandoned the animals.
The programme said that five Tibetan mastiff puppies had also been foresaken. They were later adopted by other people. An elderly man, seen feeding the survivng dog on the video, said: “What a tragedy. The owner has no conscience.”