Celebrity dog in China stolen, sold, and eaten
· Toronto Sun
A dog with more than 1.5 million followers on social media was allegedly stolen from his family’s farm in China and sold to a restaurant for the equivalent of $26, where he was killed and eaten the same day.
Chinese travel influencer Guo is now seeking justice for his eight-year-old border collie Chutou, a dog that gained a massive following on Chinese social media platform Douyin, the South China Morning Post reported.
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Kidnapped, killed and eaten
Guo left his dog with his parents at their farm in Shanqui, while travelling when a man and a woman on an electric scooter were caught on surveillance footage taking the animal from the farm on May 11. The family immediately notified authorities.
Guo returned from his trip and tracked down the suspects in a nearby village, who reportedly told him they thought the animal was a stray and admitted selling him to a dog trader.
“The dog is dead, stop making a fuss. I did not break the law,” one of the alleged thieves told Guo, according to the Post .
By that time, the dog had been resold to a restaurant where he was slaughtered and eaten. Guo confronted the restaurant butcher, hoping to recover at least some mortal remains, but was told, “the hair was thrown in the rubbish long ago.”
Guo is now seeking criminal charges against the alleged thieves and compensation for the loss of the dog, valued by lawyers at $10,000. But animal protection laws in China are relatively weak, with pets treated more or less as property. There’s also no ban on eating dog meat.