Shanghai animal right activists save 800 cats from Guangdong kitchen

Animal rights action in Nanjing
Getty Images via Daylife Is it illegal to save 800 cats from their Guangdong butchers? Probably yes, but nevertheless Shanghai animal rights activists freed the animals and got favorable coverage in the state-owned Shanghai Daily. Favorable coverage of an NGO's doing illegal things, that is a rather dramatic watershed. (h/t Shanghaiist)

Six volunteers from the Shanghai Animal Protection Association confronted cat dealers in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, and spent a day and a night trying to rescue about 1,500 cats.
The animals were being loaded onto a container truck that was due to travel to Guangdong Province.
Liu Xiaoyun, one of the volunteers, told Shanghai Daily yesterday that the cats were caged in about 70 bamboo boxes, about 20 to a box.
The volunteers managed to unlock about 40 cages, releasing about 800 of the animals.

Both the action and the coverage in the Shanghai Daily are signs of this fast-changing society. I guess there is more to come.

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