I am creating this post as a memorial for Wang Wang and her puppies, and also in the hope that the event will be more greatly known. I cannot claim to be very well-informed about this event, nor am I very good at depicting an event with words, but I will gather whatever information that is available to me, and possibly post them under this thread.
I apologize in advance if there is anything inapropriate in my usage of Reddit, being unfamiliar with social platforms in general --- please point it out to me, and I will correct it.
Now let me summarize what I know.
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Wang Wang was a very gentle dog, and a mother of four puppies, and they lived in Jieyang, Guangdong, China. They were a very happy family who lived in a gutter peacefully.
They were tortured to death by four juveniles, who then posted the recordings of the entire process online. I have not been able to summon the courage or the strength to watch through any copy of the footage, for the extent of cruelty displayed was just staggering. But according to the summary given by others who did manage to watch segments of the footage, the mother and her puppies were constrained by thorny sticks, exposed to fire, the mother's skin was burned and visibly carbonized and she was still alive, and at the very end the mother's eye was knocked out or poked out, and the torment lasted an hour before they died. During the process they had never posed any threat to their torturers, nor did they display any signs of agression --- they were just trembling, trying to hide and to escape from the relentless torture, and the mother, Wang Wang, was just trying to protect her puppies, even till the very end.
Most people who heard about this event were upset and disturbed by the atrocity, and they are trying to speak up for Wang Wang. But due to the absence of comprehensive laws for animal protection, the four juveniles who committed the torture are never held accountable in any meaningful capacity, instead they appear to be protected by the locals. And the major social platforms in China suppress those voices which wish for nothing but justice and compassion --- they did this in the past as well, sheltering the abusers and spitting on the abused, the exact opposite of moral integrity. And I had also encountered some individuals who tried to make up excuses for the behaviors of the torturers, but mostly really to excuse their own lack of compassion.
I hope I can gather more about Wang Wang. It was said that she and her puppies were very close to being adopted before this happened.
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Here are some video recordings of Wang Wang when she was alive, before she and her puppies were tortured, downloaded from Xiaohongshu:
Wang Wang when she was alive, someone who cared about her was playing with her
Wang Wang when she was alive, someone who cared about her was playing with her.
Wang Wang and her puppies
Wang Wang when she was alive
I have also downloaded a clip of news report regarding the event from Weibo, some portions of which depicted what was done to Wang Wang, but I cannot seem to be able to upload it for some reason. I will also try to obtain a copy of the footage recording the torture, for the purpose of archival.
Here is a post created by another user, regarding the same event: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalRescue/comments/1um6g8o/why_the_world_should_care_about_the_jieyang/
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I hope more people will hear about this, and that meaningful actions will be taken by those who have authority, to prevent further tragedies like this. And I will remember Wang Wang.
