Friend,
When our team entered the site in the Philippines on Saturday, we found Carla exactly as the dog meat trade leaves its victims.
Her muzzle was tied shut.
Her legs were bound behind her back.
Carla was lying helpless, waiting for slaughter. She couldn’t move, she couldn’t escape, she couldn’t even cry out for help. Her suffering didn’t stop there. Her skin condition was horrendous — raw, inflamed, and clearly untreated for a long time. She was in constant discomfort, her body covered in sores that told the story of prolonged neglect and abuse.
And, worse of all? Carla is blind.
A blind dog, restrained, bound, and left completely defenceless in the hands of people who saw her only as meat.
This is the reality of the dog meat trade.
On Saturday, our team struck again, carrying out the third raid in just two months against this brutal trade in the Philippines. The pressure is working. The traders are running scared. The criminal gangs around them are collapsing.
Right now, the dog meat trade is struggling under sustained, intelligence-led raids carried out by Animal Welfare Investigations Project. We are the only international organisation on the ground regularly taking direct action against this trade. Frankly, no one else has the capability to do this.
Carla is now safe. She’s receiving care. She is finally protected.
But the man who did this to her, and others like him, must not be allowed to walk away without real consequences.
At the moment, when dog meat traders are caught, they are often given fines.
A fine is not justice for binding a blind dog and leaving her to suffer.
They should be sent straight to jail.
I know you agree.
Every name strengthens our hand with law enforcement and prosecutors — and helps ensure that cruelty like this leads to real punishment.
We rescued Carla. Now we must make sure her abuser never hurts another animal again.
– Team AWIP