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Beaverton Mayor Denny Doyle: Tell Sister City Cheonan, South Korea, That We’re Opposed to the Torture and Consumption of Dogs and Cats.

If you want to help fight the grisly South Korean dog and cat meat trade and make a difference in South Korea, here are a few quick actions you can take that could save millions of dogs and cats each year.

Beaverton, Oregon became Sister city to South Korea’s Cheonan in 1989.

Cheonan Mayor Bon-Yeong Gu

Yet Cheonan, South Korea is responsible for the ongoing horrendous torture and killing of dogs and cats. One of the country’s largest markets in South Korea, that auctions dogs both for pets and for meat, is the infamous “119 Dog Auction Market” in Cheonan. If you have ever wondered what hell would be like, just visit this dreadful place, or watch the undercover videos of this Market. This is literally a “Hell on Earth” where helpless dogs, squashed up in cage after cage, are auctioned off to restaurants and slaughterhouses. In Cheonan, there are countless markets, restaurants and farms where the dogs, which are tortured their entire lives, end up being slaughtered in the most inhumane ways, such as by electrocution, hanging or beating; and then being thrown into boiling water – sometimes while they are still alive. In many places, dogs are being killed in full view of other terrified caged dogs; and this takes place in public and in broad daylight. In addition, many abandoned and stolen former pets end up in these markets, and are subjected to the same cruelty.

Please watch the undercover videos from Cheonan’s 911 Dog Auction Market: https://youtu.be/9cfDt1_NNvY

A Search Engine reveals the sickening scale of Cheonan’s dog meat demand.

Shown below are two search results on Naver (the most popular search engine in Korea) – the first one was for so-called “Health Centers,” which commonly sell dog elixirs and cat elixirs (also known as dog soju and cat soju), and the second one was for “dog meat restaurants.”

The searches resulted in dozens of 271 Health Food Shops and 155 restaurants in the vicinity of Cheonan.

Even if half of these ‘Health’ Centers and restaurants serve dog and cat ‘ingredients’ in one form or another, imagine how many dog/cat slaughterhouses must be in the vicinity of Cheonan to supply these outlets.

There are laws in South Korea against selling dogs and cats for consumption, yet these laws are blatantly ignored.

The Mayor’s office is making a list of all the calls they receive regarding this issue. Based on the number of calls which show how much interest and support there is, the Mayor will decide on the course of Action. So please pick up the phone today and make a difference.

Call for Action

• No matter where you live, please SIGN OUR PETITION
• Send an email to Mayor Denny Doyle and Beaverton Government!(Use the below-suggested message or petition for email text):
  [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
• Call the Korean Embassy and Consulate General’s offices in your country!
• Call the Mayor’s Office!
  Phone: (503) 526-2497
  Fax: (503) 526-2479
• Send a Twitter message!
  .@fastcheonansi .@CityofBeaverton Mayor Doyle, Plz urge Sister City Cheonan, S. Korea: stop torturing, killing dogs https://goo.gl/2PKCuL
• Send a letter! (Use the below-suggested message or petition for letter text):
  Mayor’s Office
  12725 SW Millikan Way
  Beaverton, OR 97005
  USAP.O. Box 4755
  Beaverton, OR 97076
  USASend a copy of your letter to the Cheonan Mayor Bon-Yeong Gu!

  Mayor Bon-Yeong Gu
  Cheonan City Hall
  156, Beonyeong-ro, Seobuk-gu, Cheonan-si, Chungcheongnam-do, Postal Code 31162
  South Korea

  Address in Korean:
  천안시장구본영 님
  천안시청
  (31162) 충남 천안시 서북구 번영로 156
  South Korea

  Phone: 82-1577-3900

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No matter where you live, PLEASE SHARE these actions with your friends, especially those who live in Beaverton!