The trades also increase the risk of spreading disease, including deadly rabies. Although dog and cat meat are only eaten by a small minority of people in Indonesia, the trades affect whole communities who often have their pets stolen by weapon-wielding dog and cat thieves. Investigations have also documented countless dogs and cats being blow-torched whilst still alive. DMFI has filmed dogs being bound and gagged by traders, thrown into the back of trucks and bludgeoned over the head in markets.
The petition hand-in follows a series of DMFI investigations exposing the heart-breaking horror of the trade.
One million signatures were collected from around the world, to represent the more than 1 million dogs and hundreds of thousands of cats who are killed each year in Indonesia for human consumption.ĭMFI is a coalition of international and Indonesian animal protection organisations comprising Change For Animals Foundation, Humane Society International, Animals Asia, FOUR PAWS, Animal Friends Jogja and Jakarta Animal Aid Network who have spent years documenting the brutality of the dog and cat meat trades, and campaigned tirelessly for an end to these horrors on grounds of both animal cruelty and risks to public health. LONDON- Downton Abbey star Peter Egan joined campaigners from the Dog Meat-Free Indonesia coalition and Care2 to hand deliver a petition to the Indonesian Embassy calling for an end to the country’s brutal dog and cat meat trade.
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