Francis Pangilinan, chair of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food, which, in this country, is in charge of animal welfare issues. 4, a number of supporters, many clad in T-shirts that declared, “Amend the Animal Welfare Act,” showed up at the Senate for a much-awaited hearing led by Sen. Still, despite such setbacks, the mainly private NGO-led campaign to amend the outdated AWA continues. As much as awareness about these issues has increased, the avenues by which demented people can ‘advertise’ their acts of cruelty have also increased.” “On social networking sites, people are bragging about being cruel to animals. “We see cruelty everywhere,” says Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) executive director Anna Cabrera. The incredible part is, they are now suing the National Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Immigration. 2, operating a similar ring in Cavite.Īfter some months in captivity, the Koreans were recently found guilty, and fined a laughable P5,000 for violation of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) and P6,000 for violating the anti-gambling law.

The infuriating fact was, they had already been busted just three months earlier, Dec.

Most recently, there was a video of the guard at the Technological University of the Philippines (TUP) in Cavite who, despite the grainy quality of the video, was obviously beating a whimpering puppy school authorities claimed the guard was just shooing (!) the dog away.Įarlier this year, in what was probably the most brazen and shameless case yet, several Korean nationals were held last March 30 after they were caught running an Internet dog-fighting operation in Laguna. There was the picture that went viral on Facebook (God bless social networking) in March this year, of a dog in a sack tied to the back of an SUV the establishment under whose name the vehicle was allegedly registered, Apollo International Cagayan Trading Corporation, was located, but caretakers at the house refused to comment, and the fate of the dog remains unknown. There was Popeye, the dog whose owner poured kerosene all over him last month and set him on fire to allegedly manage a flea infestation.

The stories are enough to reduce animal lovers to tears.

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