Police and animal campaigners intercepted a truck carrying the dogs—mostly stolen pets—as it arrived at an illegal dog meat slaughterhouse.
Police intercepted the truck and arrested a man suspected of being a dog meat trader on the Indonesian island of Java as part of the country's first large-scale police raid on an illegal dog meat slaughterhouse.
"My heart was pounding in my chest as we approached the truck, because I could hear the dogs' pitiful whimpering and then saw them all tied up in sacks, their soft muzzles squeezed shut with wire," she said in a statement."They were extremely traumatized and frightened. Many of them were still wearing collars, and were no doubt many miles from home, likely stolen pets grabbed from the streets.
Tarjono Sapto Nugroho, head of crime investigation with the Sukoharjo police said in a statement:"We receive many complaints about illegal dog meat traders' operations. People do not want this trade or slaughter in their communities. Dogs are friends, not food, and the trade is already illegal and is strictly prohibited by Islamic law.
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