pet blind boxes – Michael Broad

By today’s standard Chinese artist of the medieval era depicted the cat poorly

November 27, 2021November 27, 2021 by Michael Broad

This is a topic that interests me: how artists of the mediaeval era depicted domestic cats in their paintings. And I’m sure that they felt that they were painting an accurate representation of the domestic cat before them. But by today’s standards they are quite poor for one reason: they humanised them. They painted …

‘Blind boxes’ containing 70 barely weaned kittens dumped in Shanghai

September 24, 2021 by Michael Broad

Bling box craze in China is cruel and callous and is rooted in a bad attitude towards animal welfare

NEWS AND COMMENT – SHANGHAI, CHINA: The blind box craze in China feeds on entirely the wrong attitude of the consumers who regard an animal companion as a toy. This is the craze which sends pets in boxes to purchasers by mail order. They have no idea what they are buying. It is a …

Pet blind boxes of China and the courier ZTO who delivers them

May 6, 2021 by Michael Broad

China: volunteers from a rescue organisation photograph pets in pet blind boxes on a lorry before I hope that they save them

I have just discovered it: Pet Blind Boxes, another aspect of cruelty to animals in China which utterly bemuses as me. I can’t get too involved in this cruelty because it is too objectionable but I have to report it. China has no law against animal cruelty. This allows the shipping of live animals …