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Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth (CARE) and Watchdog recently shut down a small dog farm owned by a man who operated a well known noodle restaurant in Inje County, Gangwon-do province, South Korea. Unbelievably, this man was able to adopt dogs from Inje County Animal Shelter multiple times despite the fact that he is a known member of the Korean Meat Dog Farmers Association (South Korea’s dog meat industry trade association), owns a meat dog farm, and has a history of slaughtering dogs and selling “dog elixir;” a soup made of dog meat. What is even more shocking is that an employee of Inje County’s Livestock department actually encouraged this man to “adopt” these dogs from the shelter. While at the scene, the informants and the CARE team were verbally attacked by this county employee who used vulgar language and threats in an attempt to intimate them.

This restaurant owner took the dogs from the Inje County Shelter to his dog farm, bred them repeatedly, and sold them to the dog meat industry. His dog farm used to have hundreds of dogs imprisoned in wire cages along both sides of the road. A witness saw this man selling over 30 dogs to the dog slaughterhouse this past summer. The dogs at his farm were being fed rotted garbage for food that infested with maggots, and lived their entire lives in painful, cramped raised wire cages filled with feces.

Last week, CARE and the local informants who were posing as customers at his restaurant recorded their conversation with the owner. They were able to rescue two dogs from his dog farm. The man originally took these dogs from the Inje County shelter after completing an adoption agreement in which he fraudulently agreed to adopt them as companion animals. CARE and the Watchdog team then raided his dog farm. After a long negotiation with county officials, were able to convince the Inje county officials to take the remaining dogs back to their shelter and to prevent this man from taking any more dogs in the future. CARE also warned the County officials that this man might try to continue to take the dogs from the shelter by using other people in his place. CARE also demanded that the county implement stricter adoption requirements to prevent dog farmers and butchers from taking dogs from shelters for the sole purpose of killing them for consumption.

CARE has demanded that Inje County provide them with adoption data, including the partial name of adopters. CARE has also made a request to the Korea’s National Assembly to further investigate this issue by examining the adoption data nationwide.

CARE asks that we file e-People petitions to Inje County to stop the corruption in their shelter management and make them take this issue seriously. CARE will also submit civil complaints against this dog farmer for all the violations.

On this day, one dog was taken by a minister who runs a well managed private dog shelter, and the remaining five dogs were sent to the county shelter to be registered in their system. Afterwards, the local animal advocates who helped with this case will be relocating them to another shelter where they will be cared for until they are able to be relocated into forever homes, where they will be treated as the companion animals they are.

This type of corruption surrounding adoption by government run shelters, so called “Don’t ask” adoption of shelter dogs, is very common in South Korea. We see frequent stories in the news about this, because in Korea because anyone with an ID can adopt dogs without any due diligence by the shelters. Last May, we saw the news about a woman mauled by a dog and died of blood loss in Namyangju. This case also involves a dog farmer adopting numerous dogs from city shelter in Namyangju, even though the alleged suspect denies it. The dog involved suffered horrific long-term abuse, including living with a collar choking and cutting deeply into the skin. He was able to escape and unfortunately resulted in the death of a woman.

👉 Click HERE to learn more about the CARE and Watchdog’s project to shut down dog farms and slaughterhouses in South Korea.

Rescue and undercover operations like this are only possible through donations to CARE. Please help them continue their important work of shutting down the dog meat industry in South Korea by donating today. Thank you!🙏🏼

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Call for Action

• 👉 Click HERE to file a petition with the South Korean government through e-People online. (You can use our “Suggested message” below or your own words.)
  📌 Need help with the e-People petition? Click HERE for instructions.
• 📧 Send emails to the Inje County Council and the South Korean National Assembly, Agriculture, Food, Rural Affairs, Oceans, and Fisheries Committee members:

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• 📧 Send emails to the Gangwon Provincial Council members:

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• 📬 Send letters.
  

  Mayor Choi Sang-Ki
  Inje County
  Inje-ro 187 Bun-gil 8, Inje-eup, Inje-gun, Gangwon-do
  Postal Code 24631
  South Korea

  📬 Addresses in Korean:
  최상기 인제군수님
  인제군청
  (24631) 강원도 인제군 인제읍 인제로187번길 8
  South Korea

  Inje County Council
  Inje-ro 187 Bun-gil 8, Inje-eup, Inje-gun, Gangwon-do
  Postal Code 24631
  South Korea

  Inje County Council’s address in Korean:
  인제군의회
  (24631) 강원도 인제군 인제읍 인제로187번길 8 (의회사무과 2층)
  South Korea

• Send a message through Facebook pages.
  

  Inje
  Gangwon-do Government
  Gangwon-do Governor
  Gangwon Provincial Council

  📝 Suggested message

  Subject: We strongly request the following for Inje County, where the Dog Meat Farmers Association members adopted dogs from the County Animal Shelter multiple times.

  Dear Mayor Choi Sang-Ki and the Inje County Council members,

  Please watch the videos below.
  Livestream Part 1 of 2: https://www.facebook.com/CAREanimalKorea/videos/246830044012698/
  Livestream Part 2 of 2: https://www.facebook.com/CAREanimalKorea/videos/1083659572169557/

  Given that member of the Dog Meat Farmers Association have repeatedly adopted dogs from the County Animal Shelter multiple times, we strongly request the following of Inje County:

  1. All surviving dogs adopted by any members of the Dog Meat Farmers Association must be immediately returned to the Inje County Animal Shelter.
  2. All dogs must be spayed and neutered before adoption.
  3. All adopted dogs must be registered as companion animals.
  4. Before allowing adoption, an official must complete a home check to ensure adequate living conditions for raising a dog. Anyone who keeps dogs tethered outside must be prohibited from adopting them.
  5. We strongly urge the punishment of dog farm owners who adopted dogs and sold them to slaughterhouses.
  6. We call for a stringent adoption system.
  7. The Inje County Livestock Division employee who encouraged members of the Dog Meat Farmers Association to adopt dogs from the County Shelter must be fired immediately and charged with dereliction of duty.

  The favor of your reply is requested.

  * Please respond to my petition in English and Korean using the Microsoft Word Document. The Hancom word processor program is not used outside Korea, and we cannot open Hancom’s .hwp file.

  📝 Suggested message in Korean (Please include this in your petition.)

  육견협회 회원이 유기견을 입양한 인제군에 다음의 사항을 강력히 요청합니다.

  최상기 인제군수님과 인제군의회 의원님들께 청원합니다.

  우선 아래의 동영상을 봐주시기 바랍니다.
  Livestream Part 1 of 2: https://www.facebook.com/CAREanimalKorea/videos/246830044012698/
  Livestream Part 2 of 2: https://www.facebook.com/CAREanimalKorea/videos/1083659572169557/

  육견협회 회원이 유기견을 입양한 인제군에 다음의 사항을 강력히 요청합니다.

  1. 육견협회 회원이 입양한 개들을 모두 다시 돌려받아야 합니다.
  2. 입양 보내는 모든 개들에 대해 중성화 수술을 해야합니다.
  3. 입양견은 모두 반려동물 등록을 해야합니다.
  4. 입양을 허락하기전 가정환경을 사전 확인해야합니다. 입양견을 바깥에 묵어기르는 사람들은 입양을 하지 못하도록 합니다.
  5. 유기견을 입양해서 개고기로 쓴 개농장 주인의 처벌을 강력히 촉구합니다.
  6. 엄격한 입양시스템을 촉구합니다.
  7. 육견협회 회원이 유기견을 입양하게한 인제군 축산과 직원을 직무유기로 고발합니다.

  인제군의 회신을 요청드립니다.

  * 청원 답변은 한글과 영어로 마이크로소프트 워드 파일로 보내주시기 바랍니다. 한콤 .hwp파일은 외국에서는 사용하지않으며 오픈할수 없습니다.

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CARE’s posts in Korean:

https://www.facebook.com/CAREanimalKorea/videos/246830044012698/
[라이브1] 인제군, 육견협회 회원에게 유기견 입양 보내다.
개농장 주에게 남은 개들 구조 작업 중.

https://www.facebook.com/CAREanimalKorea/videos/1083659572169557/
[라이브2/ 인제] “ 괜찮은 개 있으니 데려가라…” 육견협회 회원이 유기견을 입양한 인제군.
강원도 인제군은 육견협회 소속이라 주장하는 개농장주에게 유기견을 입양보냈습니다.
개농장주는 유기견을 지자체로부터 반복 입양했다는 사실을 시인했고
심지어 입양각서까지 썼습니다.
개농장주는 공무원이 입양을 다음과 같이 권장했다고 했습니다.
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