In a dreadful event, over 1,000 abandoned dogs were starved to death by a 60-year-old man in South Korea, media reports said. South Korea Police examining the animal abuse case said the implicated has actually admitted to “taking in abandoned dogs and starving them till they passed away”, The Korea Herald reported.
Animal rights activists, nevertheless, said the man was paid by dog breeders to eliminate dogs that were past the breeding age or were no longer commercially appealing. He was paid 10,000 won per dog from 2020 to “look after them” following which he locked them up and starved them to death, an agent of animal rights group Care informed cable television news channel MBN.
A regional had actually come across the scary in Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi Province, the most inhabited location of South Korea, when he was trying to find his own lost dog.
As per reports, decayed carcasses of the mistreated dogs produced a layer on the ground, on top of which more bodies were kept to make another row and so on. The starved dogs were kept in cages, sacks and rubber boxes.
The city government in Yangpyeong said the dead dogs would be eliminated today.
Four dogs handled to endure the excruciating scenarios and are getting treatment at a center for poor nutrition and skin illness. Two of the 4 dogs remain in important condition, South China Morning Post reported.
While South Korea has stringent animal security laws where those who eliminate an animal by stopping working to feed or water it on function confront 3 years in jail or approximately 30 million won in fines, cases of animal abuse in the nation have actually been on the increase.
Animal abuse cases increased from 69 to 914 in a nine-year duration in between 2010 and 2019, Mirror reported. According to the farming ministry’s Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency, occurrences of animal desertion likewise increased by around 40,000.
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