It's necessary to kill most of dogs after the earthquake?

China
May 21, 2008 8:12am CST
Seveal days ago,a terrible earthquake happened in my hometown which already killed 40075 persons.I am so sad for those people and doing my best to help them.It's reported that animals such like dogs,cats,etc,should be killed after the earthquake in case of horrible epidemics.I feel so sorry for those animals but what else can we do? What's you opinion?
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@nova1945 (1612)
• United States
21 May 08
To the best of my knowledge, there are very few diseases which can be passed from animals to humans. Fleas might be a problem as they do carry rabies, but if caught in time even that is treatable. I just can't understand why the only answer is to kill all these animals.
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@Foxfire1875 (2010)
21 May 08
Why do you need to kill the cats and dogs surely they can be caught and put into kennels or is the area to poor to do this. I can't see how there would be an epidemic though as the only problem I can think of is that there would be strays everywhere. This would cause some problems but killing them is a bit too much.
• China
21 May 08
It's true! I don't know what the White House done to cope with animals in the tsunami years ago.
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@kaysue4 (951)
• United States
21 May 08
I can't understand why they would do this unless the places that they would keep them was destroyed also, or if a lot of the dogs and other animals were injured to the point that they couldn't treat them. Or due to so many owners were killed and no family has a place to put them. This is SO SO sad It also makes me angery that more can't be done to help these poor little creatures. I wish I could afford to fly them to the States and find good homes for them here, but I am so poor that an ant has more than I do.
@tonibabe (189)
21 May 08
oh no that is awful i dont think they should be killed surely there is something else they could do but i guess it would be too much work to keep animals safe and away from diseases! but i dont think healthy animals should ever be put down! :(