Thousands of animals found dead in Chinese depot after being bought online as pets


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Some 4,000 pet dogs, rabbits, cats and hamsters that were purchased online have been found dead in boxes at a processing hub in central China after being stranded there for nearly a week, according to an animal welfare group. The group Utopia Animal Rescue said they managed to save just over 1,000 animals but the remainder had perished by the time they arrived at the Dongxing facility in Luohe, Henan province earlier this month. “We’ve done rescues before but this was the first time I had experienced something this tragic,” one volunteer with the group told the South China Morning...