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Title: Cat Market
Photographer: Unknown
Web site: Asian Animal Protection Network   Email: info@aapn.org
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China and other countries in east Asia eat millions of domestic cats and dogs every year. Their treatment of the animals is barbaric and illegal in the West. This scene is at a Chinese street market where cats are prepared for diners at the nearby restaurant. This woman with the red bowl prepares cats. Watch how she works.

Cats are kept in near-by cages.

A tabby cat is selected from a cage and grabbed round the neck with tongs.

Some restaurants skin and cook their cats alive, but this tabby might be 'lucky' bleeding to death in the gutter.

The woman skins the tabby cat - who still looks alive.

The woman blow-torches the cat to remove his fur. Note the woman still sitting in her chair as in in the first photo.

The woman removes the tabby's internal organs. Nothing goes to waste in China.

She fries the tabby cat next to the red bowl where she did the skinning.

A few minutes later two happy diners eat the cat at the restaurant.

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