A student from An Giang Province in southern Vietnam was found in a critical condition after two thieves who tried to snatch his dog fired an arrow at his neck. Senior Lieutenant Colonel Le Van Dau, chief of police of Cho Moi District in An Giang, said on Tuesday that his force was working with authorities in bordering Dong Thap Province to search for the thief ring involved in the case, which took place in Long Dien B Commune of the locality. “This group is responsible for several dog thievery instances in the last few days," he said. "We are trying to find the group and put them through due process. “However, as the Cho Moi District adjoins Dong Thap Province, the search area is rather large, which has made the searching more time-consuming.” Earlier, the victim P.Q.D., 19, from Dong Thap's Long Dien B, found two thieves trying to steal a dog from his family. He continued to chase them down with his father on a motorbike before getting shot in the neck by an improvised crossbow. A supplied photo shows a two-prong arrow after being removed from P.Q.D.'s body. The victim was promptly brought to Cho Moi District General Hospital before transferred to An Giang Province General Hospital due to his critical condition. He pulled through thanks to the effort of a surgical team who conducted a three-hour operation to safely remove the arrow from his body. The arrow is 50 centimeters long with an eight-centimeter, two-prong arrowhead that pierced through his flesh and touched the cervical spine. However, the lesion was not fatal. The patient has so far regained consciousness and been able to communicate with medical workers. D. is reavealed to be a freshman at Can Tho University in the namesake city, who just arrived home for the Lunar New Year holiday. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter to get the latest news about Vietnam! …
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Two jailed over stolen dogs
Tran Duc Ngoc received 10 months jail term and Dinh Tien Cong seven months on charges of theft, while Nguyen Van Duc received a suspended sentence for storing or buying illegally obtained property, according to Duc Tho District People’s Court. On November 10 last year, Ngoc and Cong stole nine dogs from Ha Tinh’s Duc Tho District and the neighboring Nghe An Province’s Nam Dan District using tazers. They then sold these dogs to a restaurant in Duc Tho for VND60,000-70,000 ($2.62-3.05) per kilogram. The culprits were seized the next day while trying to sell six live dogs weighing a combined 80 kilograms. Cong and Ngoc spent money from selling dogs on drugs. Vietnam consumes an estimated five million dogs a year, second only to China's 20 million. Many dogs served at restaurants are stolen pets sold to small, unregulated abattoirs. Dog theft is treated as a crime only when the stolen dogs are valued at more than VND2 million ($86). Vietnam has no law against trading in and consuming dog meat. …
Prohibiting the slaughter of dogs and cats
Prohibiting the slaughter of dogs and cats The rampant trade in dog and cat meat in Vietnam causes the suffering of millions of animals each year, many of which are stolen pets. In recent years, while the dog meat trade has received the attention of domestic and international animal protection organisations and media outlets, cats also remain victims of a brutal and cruel business form. Although there are no specific regulations on banning the slaughter and trade of dog and cat meat in Vietnam, authorities in major cities such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have called on people to give up the habit of consuming it. However, persuading people to change such habits remains a challenge. In 2018, the People’s Committee of Hanoi issued a document calling for people to stop eating dog and cat meat so as not to affect the “image of a modern, civilised capital”. In addition to increased risk of disease transmission, Hanoian leaders also said that the issue caused “objections from tourists and international visitors living or working in Hanoi”. The following year, the Food Safety Management Authority of Ho Chi Minh City also recommended that people do not eat dog meat due to health risks such as carrying the virus that causes rabies and the possibility of infection with parasites due to not being quarantined. While dog meat is not banned (although it is not included in the list of domestic animals for human consumption), hunting, slaughtering, and consuming cats was banned in Vietnam in 1998. Facing the risk of rapidly growing rats causing damage to crops and potentially causing the plague, the government issued Directive No.09/1998/CT-TTg on eliminating rats to protect crops in the form of revoking business licenses, immediately terminating cat-meat eateries, and strictly dealing with those who hunt cats. After the directive was issued, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development issued a circular guiding implementation of the directive at the …
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