Dog being eaten alive by maggots rescued from van heading for China meat market – World News

Davina, the 19 month-old poodle-type pup was found also with a bone sticking out of her leg when activists stopped a truck heading to Yulin – an area famous for its barbaric dog meat festival

Davina was covered in maggots, where cuts on her tiny body had become infected and started to rot (

Image: NoToDogMeat / Animal News Agency)

A tiny dog covered in maggots was found crammed into a crate headed for a Chinese meat market before being rescued at the last minute.

Davina, the 19 month-old poodle-type pup, was rescued when activists stopped a truck heading to Yulin which is famous for its barbaric dog meat festival.

Fifty dogs were saved on the day, but Davina was the most shockingly injured, with a bone gruesomely sticking out of her leg, after being cruelly shoved and crushed against the sides of her cramped cage during transit by butchers.

She was also covered in maggots, where cuts on her tiny body had become infected and started to rot.

Had Davina not been rescued, she would have been transported to the festival and slaughtered, along with an estimated 5,000 other dogs.

The terrified dogs are often beaten to death, before being hung upside down and burned with a blowtorch.
After the meat is ‘prepared’ the carcasses are chopped up and served as a range of menu items, which have been reported by activists to include a stew, or crispy style dish.

Once rescued, Davina bravely endured treatment to have the bone reset, and four months on after extensive rehabilitation is now on the road to recovery in safety at a dog shelter in Beijing.

Following her surgery Davina was cared for by teenage activist Anna Gan, who is well known in Beijing for her vocal campaigning on the dog meat trade issue, and her roadshows in shopping centres.

Devoted Anna stayed by Davina’s side throughout her months-long ordeal, and is now working hard to find her a loving home, either in China or abroad.

The rescue mission and operation was funded by UK-based charity NoToDogMeat, which runs the shelter in Beijing as well as a base in Hebei staffed by local volunteers.

CEO Julia de Cadenet, who worked around the clock to coordinate rescue and fact-finding efforts in Yulin, said: “I am so proud of our NoToDogMeat team for the work we have done this year.

“And all these months of seeing little Davina’s recovery shows how worthwhile it all was.

“Our rescuers on the ground were so brave, and we succeeded in rescuing 21 dogs, and exposing to the world that dogs are still being killed in such cruelty, despite changes in local rules.”

NoToDogMeat advises the United Nations on this issue, and has submitted reports on its findings to local and national authorities in China.

The charity also recently contributed to a United Nations on the dog and cat meat trade, so that the information can be used to shape Sustainable Development Goals.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity.

The pandemic has impacted the progress of the goals in many areas, and NGOs who have been granted consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council ( ECOSOC) were invited to submit proposals and recommendations on how the goals can be achieved despite the impact of the pandemic.

Julia added: “A small charity like ours is not just about rescue. We spend hours of our time writing reports to the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Health departments.

“We have even started to write our own Animal Welfare Charter to help protect the millions of dogs and cats with zero rights brutally used for food and fur each year.

“Yulin is just one example of the atrocities we have seen in the dog and cat meat trade throughout Asia.

“There is intensive dog farming in South Korea with dogs fed on rotting waste, pumped full of antibiotics and left without shelter in heat and cold, eardrums burst to stop them barking.

“Cats don’t do much better. Kittens plunged into hot water to make soup. They are skinned alive in Vietnam, bones crushed into a paste to cure a variety of ailments.

“Sometimes, like in China, it is stolen pets; other times, South Korea farmed dogs or just the pitiful sight of lives being exchanged for cheap plastic buckets and bowls in Cambodia. The suffering is endless and relentless.”

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