Heart-breaking moment five-year-old girl finds her missing pet dog Flower… being sold ready-cooked at Vietnamese stall
By Tracy You For Daily Mailonline UK
Picture has gone viral of a little girl crying beside her roasted pet dog
The five-year-old is believed to be living in a village in northern Vietnam
Her pet ‘Flower’ had gone missing mysteriously a few days earlier
Child searched for pet in vain but found it accidentally by a dog meat stall
This is a nightmare moment for any dog owner: recognising their missing pets served in a roast shop. And it just happened to a five-year-old from northern Vietnam.
A picture of a little girl crying by a dog she believed to be her pet has quickly gone viral on the internet, according to People’s Daily Online.
The unidentified girl is reported to be living in the countryside of northern Vietnam. She had raised a dog ‘Flower’ for three years and was deeply saddened when her beloved pet went missing mysteriously.
She had spent great effort searching for ‘Flower’, but in vain.
A few days later, when the child passed by a local dog meat stall, she instantly recognised a dog which was lain on the street and had already been cooked.
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‘That’s Flower,’ cried t
he girl while rushing over to the dog.
The picture breaks the heart of hundreds of thousands on the internet.
Many lament that the tragedy is too much for a five-year-old to bear and appeal for a ban on the consumption of dog meat.
Graphic: Vietnam’s trade in dog meat is exposed
Dog meat is treated as a delicacy in several Asian countries, including Korea, Vietnam and China.
A documentary made by Channel 4 last autumn revealed that seven tonnes of live dogs are shipped to the nation’s capital Hanoi every day with one slaughter house owner saying he killed up to 30 dogs a day.
Many of these dogs are pets stolen from gardens and front porches at night.
Devastated: The little girl, who is believed to be living in northern Vietnam, finds her beloved pet ‘Flower’ already cooked outside a dog meat stall. She has searched for the dog for a few days after it went missing mysteriously
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I hate saying this, but dog is one of the main meat sources in Vietnam, and many other countries. Although it is sad that the dog was found cooked and being sold, we need to keep in mind it’s the way things are over there, just because us Americans don’t eat it, and find it wrong to do so, does not mean other countries do. Why is America always getting into other countries business anyways? We have enough problems of our own that need to be solved. For some countries, the cow is a sacred animal, should we ban eating cow now because other countries don’t like it and find it morally wrong? No, we shouldn’t, we also shouldn’t force out beliefs on other countries, THAT is what’s wrong. I have so much to say but really don’t know how to word it, I apologise if this offends anyone, but people really need to start seeing the ways of others, not only themselves.