May 10, 2021 11:57 AM EDT
Animal mystery boxes led to indignation in China after some mistreated 160 dying puppies and kittens were discovered in the back of a Chinese delivery truck.
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The Mystery Boxes
In Chengdu, a city in the southwestern Sichuan province, volunteers stopped a delivery truck and found around 160 crates carrying cats and dogs, as stated by the Weibo account of the Chinese animal-rescue group Chengdu Aizhijia Rescue Center. The center is convinced that the boxes of animals were heading to customers who had bought puppy and kitten mystery boxes for a special promotion amount of $1.50 or 9.90 yuan. This is wickedness. The pets are struggling to breathe, a volunteer in a video discloses.
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Animal rights activists in China found 160 puppies and kittens being transported in a shipping truck.
The animals were being shipped in mystery boxes sold by a Chengdu animal breeder on Chinese shopping site Taobao for $1.50.
Many of the animals starved and suffocated as they made a cross-country journey to customers.
Outrage over the sheer cruelty of animal mystery boxes sparked on Chinese social networking site
Weibo after some 160 distressed and dying puppies and kittens were found in the back of a Chinese delivery truck.