The proprietor of a cat meat restaurant infamous for slaughtering as much as 300 cats month-to-month within the northern province of Thai Nguyen has apologized and completely closed his enterprise.
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Pham Quoc Doanh, the 37-year-old eatery’s proprietor, expressed deep regret for his actions, acknowledging that most of the cats had been stolen beloved pets, as he informed Metro.
“However I wanted the cash,” he admitted, including that he had served different dishes in his eatery earlier than, however these had not made as a lot revenue as cat meat.
The tactic of slaughtering concerned drowning every cat individually and holding them down with a stick, a observe that Doanh now deeply regrets.
His feeling of guilt motivated him to achieve out to the Human Society Worldwide (HSI), which provides monetary incentives to eating places that stop the sale of cat and canine meat. With their assist, he fully shut down his enterprise this December.
Doanh now plans to open a grocery retailer, a choice supported and facilitated by HSI. He stated he feels extra peaceable and blissful about not killing any extra animals sooner or later, in response to Enterprise Insider.
HSI’s initiative has additionally led to the closure of two canine meat eating places in Thai Nguyen, signaling a broader motion towards cat and canine meat consumption in Vietnam.
Organizations like 4 Paws and Change For Animals Basis level out the cruel actuality that over 1 million stray and pet cats are killed yearly in Vietnam for meat. Some eating places even purchase animals from cat thieves, as famous by Dr. Katherine Polak, veterinarian and Head of Stray Animal Care at 4 Paws in Southeast Asia.