A Michael Broad Blog
If a culture has superstitions, they are bound to include the domestic cat. The domestic cat attracts superstition and has done so for many centuries. It is no different in Vietnam. But also, in Vietnam, there are many other superstitions. They are, I would have to add, a superstitious people. It has to be …
I have been trying to make some sense of the mysterious ‘Mary Dandruff’. Clearly a made-up name and one which is associated with sticking objects onto cats which look like engorged (with blood) ticks. The pictures look very convincing, and they have indeed convinced many social media users on Facebook and YouTube who are …
This is a Vietnamese Hmong dog, a breed that first belonged to the Hmong tribe, an ethnic group living primarily in China and south-east Asia. The 13-second clip comes from the Twitter page of @Buitengebieden, a Dutch user, and it has been viewed 225,000 times and rising I suspect. People have been debating whether …
She deliberately does several things to make her videos interesting or shocking depending upon your point of view. She juxtaposes her prettiness, her glossy red lips and delicate hands with the gruesome, dark, grilled remains of whole domestic cats, dog’s legs, snakes, frogs, turtles and any other wild animal she can get her hands …
The Vietnamese cat meat trade is horrible by any standards. Three million cats, many of them domestic cats (stolen pets), are killed in various inhumane ways before being skinned, disembowelled and eaten because some Vietnamese believe that they provide a particular health benefit when they don’t other than providing them with meat and protein …
NEWS AND VIEWS – OPINION – PLEASE LET ME HEAR YOURS TOO: Four Paws, an animal welfare organisation has investigated the cat meat trade in Vietnam. The Independent newspaper reported it. I don’t know whether you should read it. It is too upsetting. It is too nasty and grisly and unpleasant. Steel yourself, please. …
The words in the title are those of a campaign organised and managed by youngsters in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, whose objectives are to change the awareness of Vietnamese people to the fact that eating cat and dog meat is unacceptable in the 21st century. In is nice to report that change is …
It is almost impossible to report on this because of its callous, mindless cruelty against an innocent animal. A colleague pointed it out to me. The report is sketchy. The pictures are horrifying and clear. Although the faces of the people who did it have been blurred out. Why protect these people? I believe …
