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Stalls at a livestock market in southern China were shut down for selling hundreds of cats and dogs after a pet owner traced a missing cat there.
The Pengjiang district government in Jiangmen, in Guangdong province, shut down the stalls at the Yuanhui Livestock Trade Market after receiving reports from animal-cruelty activists that stolen cats were being sold.
The authorities raided the market, seizing 235 cats, which were later given health checks by the city’s animal disease prevention and control centre.
“To put the cats in better care, we have negotiated with the volunteers (animal cruelty activists) to transfer the cats to a professional organisation,” the government announced on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like service, on Tuesday.
“At the same time, our market supervising department is organising a check on all markets in the city,” the notice read.