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Livestock Department chief describes pet cull as ‘mercy killings'

Livestock Department chief describes pet cull as ‘mercy killings'

The Livestock Department chief on Friday defended as mercy killing the culling of over 100 pet dogs and cats at a village in Chiang Rai’s Mae Fah Luang district.

And, said Apai Sutthisang, the action was sanctioned both by the law and villagers’ resolution.
Apai, the director general of the Livestock Department, was responding to an open letter signed by seven animal rights groups demanding an explanation of what they regarded as a massacre of pets at the Ban Jalor village in Tambon Mae Fah Lung in Mae Fah Luang district.
Local residents cried foul over what they see as Mae Fah Luang livestock officials coercing and forcing them during a January 26 meeting to agree to handing over their pets to be exterminated by the officials.
They handed over their pets with tears to the officials on the following day, residents said in interviews.
Apai insisted that the mercy killings were based on a resolution by local residents during an assembly and they were carried out in accordance with Article 13 (4) of the animal disease control act of 2015.
He said the killings were unavoidable after incurable rabies had spread in the community.

Earlier report

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