Dog Meat Free Indonesia coalition

End the slaughter of dogs and cats at Indonesia's most notorious market

Every month, thousands of dogs and cats, many of them stolen pets, are brutally trafficked hundreds of miles for slaughter at markets in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. The traumatized animals are crammed into cages so tightly that they can barely move, their mouths bound shut so they can hardly breathe. They are taken on long journeys that often last for days—with no food or water—to supply markets and slaughterhouses. There they watch others being brutally killed—animals are repeatedly bludgeoned over the head and are sometimes still alive while the slaughterers blowtorch their fur and skin—trembling while they wait their turn.

Not only is this trade unbelievably cruel, but it’s also illegal given the risk it poses to public health, most notably rabies.

By working with our partners at Animal Friends Manado Indonesia—the province’s only animal shelter—we have a chance to close a network of slaughterhouses in the city and beyond and permanently end the sale of dogs and cats and their meat at Indonesia’s most notorious dog and cat meat market, the “Tomohon extreme market.”

Please join us in supporting AFMI in calling on the Mayor of Tomohon, Mr. Caroll Senduk, to take urgent action to end the sale and slaughter of dogs and cats at Tomohon extreme market, a place of extreme cruelty and suffering.

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Dear Mr. Caroll Senduk,

We write to you to express our deep concern for the tens of thousands of dogs and cats caught up in Tomohon City’s cruel “extreme market” each month.   

Every year, tens of thousands of dogs and cats arrive at Tomohon City—many of them stolen pets, all illegally trafficked from other provinces—to be sold and brutally killed in slaughterhouses and at Tomohon’s extreme market. 

We have witnessed dogs and cats being brutally killed—repeatedly bludgeoned over the head and sometimes still alive while being blowtorched—as others wait their turn. Not only is this trade unimaginably cruel, but it also poses a grave threat to public health, given the well-known link between the illegal trafficking and slaughter of dogs and cats for their meat and rabies transmission. The brutal and unhygienic slaughter and butchery of dogs and consumption of meat from rabies-positive animals puts human health at risk. There have been reports of human deaths from rabies that have been directly linked to the involvement in the slaughtering, butchery, handling and consumption of meat from infected dogs. 
 
There is mounting and vocal national and global opposition to the dog and cat meat trades, and the horrific scenes of immense cruelty at Tomohon extreme market are shocking to millions of people around the world. 

Tomohon is a place of vast natural beauty, but such widely publicized reports of the brutal slaughter of dogs and cats at the city’s market is tarnishing its national and international reputation.  

We respectfully urge you to end the sale and slaughter of all dogs and cats, to safeguard animals from such unacceptable cruelty and to protect your communities’ health and safety, so that Tomohon City can be celebrated for its beauty and culture.

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