Ailing Dog Slaughtered In the Neighborhood

Baguio City – I thought it was just a simple leisurely walk in the neighborhood between the handler and his pet dog. The young man, whom I know personally, is trying to force his dog to walk by pulling the leash which is almost choking the dog by its neck. I was prompted to ask the man what’s happening to his dog, and he said that the dog is sick and it needs to undergo euthanasia or to be slaughtered for its meat rather than let the animal die naturally.

Moments later a sharp knife sunk into the animal’s throat and blow-torched its body until the skin was scorched of its hairs. The dog’s partially burned flesh was then sliced; its neck was cut first followed by the feet and so on. Normally, for my neighbor and his dog-eating buddies, killing dogs for food is a tradition unchanged by the test of times.

But for the animal right activists armed with R.A 8485, the law that protects animals against cruelty and which strictly prohibit the killing of dog for consumption, the tradition, according to them, should be buried altogether in deference to the law’s equal treatment of animals most especially dog, man’s best friend.