Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth (CARE) and Watchdog recently shut down a small dog farm owned by a man who operated a well known noodle restaurant in Inje County, Gangwon-do province, South Korea. Unbelievably, this man was able to adopt dogs from Inje County Animal Shelter multiple times despite the fact that he is a known member of the Korean Meat Dog Farmers Association (South Korea’s dog meat industry trade association), owns a meat dog farm, and has a history of slaughtering dogs and selling “dog elixir;” a soup made of dog meat. What is even more shocking is that an employee of Inje County’s Livestock department actually encouraged this man to “adopt” these dogs from the shelter. While at the scene, the informants and the CARE team were verbally attacked by this county employee who used vulgar language and threats in an attempt to intimate them.
This restaurant owner took the dogs from the Inje County Shelter to his dog farm, bred them repeatedly, and sold them to the dog meat industry. His dog farm used to have hundreds of dogs imprisoned in wire cages along both sides of the road. A witness saw this man selling over 30 dogs to the dog slaughterhouse this past summer. The dogs at his farm were being fed rotted garbage for food that infested with maggots, and lived their entire lives in painful, cramped raised wire cages filled with feces.
Last week, CARE and the local informants who were posing as customers at his restaurant recorded their conversation with the owner. They were able to rescue two dogs from his dog farm. The man originally took these dogs from the Inje County shelter after completing an adoption agreement in which he fraudulently agreed to adopt them as companion animals. CARE and the Watchdog team then raided his dog farm. After a long negotiation with county officials, were able to convince the Inje county officials to take the remaining dogs back to their shelter and to prevent this man from taking any more dogs in the future. CARE also warned the County officials that this man might try to continue to take the dogs from the shelter by using other people in his place. CARE also demanded that the county implement stricter adoption requirements to prevent dog farmers and butchers from taking dogs from shelters for the sole purpose of killing them for consumption.
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