Earlier, a video captured by a private surveillance camera was widely circulated on Chinese social media. Footage showed two workers in white protective suits chasing a dog in an apartment before they hit the dog on the head with a metal bar, and the dog screamed in pain and tried to flee.
The video sparked outrage from netizens, who accused epidemic prevention personnel of forcibly entering homes and killing animals without the consent of the head of the household.
The dog could be heard screaming in pain in the video. (Due to the nature of the content, the video cannot be uploaded)
The owner has since published a Wei Bo post that went viral: (Here is a rough translation)
ello everyone, I am the female owner of the dog in the video of the epidemic prevention personnel beating the dog recently circulated on the Internet, my boyfriend (the male owner of the dog) ) is a confirmed case of asymptomatic infection reported by Daling Town, Huidong County, Huizhou City on March 2. He was quarantined in Huizhou on the morning of March 2. I am close and am currently in centralized isolation in other places.
irst of all, thank you for the dog who cares about the video. It is a three-year-old and three-month-old Samoyed. It is called Snowball, but its life will always stop on March 2, 2022. Yes, it was dead, beaten to death with a stick. We spent these two days and nights in endless regrets and pains. We raised a dog together for three years and three months, and he was already our family, but now he died tragically in his own home.
The process and time of the incident have been monitored as evidence.
Up to this moment, there is still no epidemic prevention personnel to inform me that the dog has been disposed of, and I don’t know where the dog’s carcass has been taken.
The incident has happened, and my dog can’t come back from the dead. We cooperate with epidemic prevention and investigation. Under the condition that I promise not to spread rumors or lie, I hope to receive a positive response from the Huidong County Government of Huizhou City and give a reasonable explanation