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Where the wars against dog-meat trading are carried out, our AKF personnel in the Philippines risk their life and limb saving dogs bound for slaughter. Together with the Philippine National Police (PNP), raids on erring establishments are made and seizures of deliveries, predominantly bound for the northern parts of the country, are vigilantly done. Months of research and investigation is involved in a successful raid, in most cases, AKF personnel expose their lives in dangers by pretending to be interested dog-meat buyers. With confirmed target, coordination with the police and proper government agencies are made followed by a buy-bust operation. Once rescued, the dogs are brought to AKF’s Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation Center in Capas, Tarlac, a town that is more than an hour drive from Manila.

Snouts bleeding, some with tongues swollen, due to tin cans muzzling their mouths; front legs tied behind their backs; stacked on top of each other in an enclosed vehicle; gall bladders bursting due to heat and barely surviving: this is precisely the state of the hapless dogs during IWCT rescue operations back in the Philippines. The "lucky" ones who survive this ordeal for nearly ten hours of being out on the road are strangled or whacked on the heads as soon as they arrive in their destinations just before dawn. Their meats are then delivered in restaurants and are cooked for breakfast, lunch and dinner and as hors d'oeuvre during drinking sessions. It has become part of a minority of Filipino’s daily diet and is already a multi-million peso trade.

An average of 300 dogs are slaughtered for their meat per day or even more than that since IWCT came to the Philippines but due to our determined resolve, that number has considerably dwindled resulting to some illegal slaughterhouses and makeshift eateries getting decommissioned.


Presently, more than 80 individuals have been arrested and charged with violation of the Philippine Animal Welfare Act of 1998 (RA 8485); almost 30 illegal slaughterhouses and small-scale restaurants have stopped operating. This is a result of more than 35 operations in the northern and southern regions of the Philippines.

IWCT/AKF also conducts dog-vaccinations and anti-rabies programs in critically considered areas in the Philippines.

More than 800 live dogs have been delivered to various pounds in the country since IWCT started and now keeps more than 300 rescued dogs in our centre. This number is slowly growing after each successful operation.

Significant coordination and link-ups with proper agencies, private and government, have also played an important role in IWCT/AKF‘s advocacy.

 

 



A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY! posted Dec. 31.2008
posted December 31. 2008

Friends, you have saved, served and supported us a lot in 2008, please be there for us in 2009! Together, let us all work towards the end of the illegal-dog-meat trade in the Philippines!

There have been breakthrough laws in 2008, let us see its full implementation in 2009. The dog-meat traders have dramatically decreased their illegal activities due to AKF’s swift and lead effort in enforcing in the mid-year of 2008 the newly activated Anti-Rabies Act of 2007. We are more hopeful for 2009 and with you being there as our partners in the advocacy, AKF shall strongly advance the fight against the illegal-dog meat traders and put this wicked dog-meat trading to its demise! Together, let us make this dream happen! Help us end the misery of our dogs being slaughtered for their meat!

No more to this cruelty!

49 'hot' dogs rescued in Benguet By Artemio Dumlao Updated December 2008 La Trinidad, Benguet – Local authorities and animal rights activists rescued 49 dogs after a raid at an illegal slaughter house in Barangay Alapag here last week. Members of the police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS), and volunteers from the Animal Kingdom Foundation (AKF) of the United Kingdom and Sweden-based Animal Protection Network raided the slaughterhouse, owned by Ador Layno, a known illegal dog trader in Baguio and La Trinidad. Brando Gegway, AKF’s Luzon representative, said Layno escaped before the raiding team arrived. AKF had earlier conducted another “dog rescue” operations at Layno’s other slaughterhouse in Barangay Gayasi also in La Trinidad.

“The battle won’t end here (rescue of the dogs). We will run after this dog trader because a criminal case of violation of Animal Welfare law R.A. 8485 and Anti-Rabies Law R.A. 9482 was filed against Layno,” said Gegway.  Under the new Anti-Rabies Law or R.A. 9482 of 2007, Section 11, dog meat traders are ordered to pay a fine of P5,000 for each of the recovered dogs and they face imprisonment of one to four years. Layno’s place was placed under surveillance after Gegway received information that a slaughterhouse of dogs is operating in the village. Lou Kockly, a member of the Animal Protection Network, said: “I can not just imagine these lovely creatures to be served in front of any Filipino. These are animals that want only to give unconditional love to humans, and they will, if they only have the chance,” she said.Kockly warned to dog meat eaters that stray dogs are infected with skin diseases and other disease.Gegway said dog meat is in demand among residents in the Cordilleras because of the cold climate.

Gegway further claimed that the center of the illegal dog trade, which is raking in millions of pesos, is in Baguio City and Benguet.

The rescued dogs were brought to the AKF rescue center at Cub-cub, Capas in Tarlac for rehabilitation.


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• LIST OF OPERATIONS |

Operations :
Jan. - present 2007

• 6 Operations initiated
• 218 dogs rescued
• 11 people persecuted

February: 9-Feb-07
Location: Cabanatuan,
Nueva Ecija
Researcher: Brando Gegway
No of Dogs rescued: 2
No of people persecuted: 2
Media Used: GMA 7

February: 13-Feb-07
Location: San Fabian, Pangasinan
Researcher: Brando Gegway
No of Dogs rescued: 7
No of people persecuted: 2
Media Used: GMA 7

February: 22-Feb-07
Location: Mabalacat, Pampanga
Researcher: Greg Quimpo
No of Dogs rescued: 93
No of people persecuted: 2
Media Used: BBC

February: 22-Feb-07
Location: Cabanatuan,
Nueva Ecija
Researcher: Greg Quimpo
No of Dogs rescued: 1
No of people persecuted: 2
Media Used: BBC

March 22-Mar-07
Location: Tuba Benguet
Researcher: Brando Gegway
No of Dogs rescued: 57
No of people persecuted: 1
Media Used: ABS CBN

July 27-Jul-07
Location: Candon, La Union
Researcher: Brando Gegway
No of Dogs rescued: 58
No of people persecuted: 3
Media Used:



Operations:
Jan. - December 2006

• 15 operations initiated
• 258 dogs rescued
• 33 people prosecuted

January: Jan 20, 2006
Location: Baguio Public Market
Researcher: Brando Gegway
No of dog meat: 204 kilos
No of People Prosecuted: 3
Media Used: Sunstar,
Midland, Zigzag, ABS-CBN


January : January 27, 2006

Location: Pangasinan
Researcher: Greg Quimpo
No of dogs rescued: 4
Pound: La Union City Pound
No of People Prosecuted: 2

February : February 3, 2006
Location: Rosario, La Union
Researcher:Winston Samaniego
No of dogs rescued: 30
Pound: La Union City Pound

March : March 7, 2006
Location: Naguilian, La Union
Researcher: Winston Samaniego
No of dogs rescued: 5
Pound: La Union City Pound
No of People Prosecuted: 3

March : March 30, 2006
Location: Tabaco, Albay
Researcher: Greg Quimpo
No of dogs rescued: 5
Pound: Legaspi City Pound
No of People Prosecuted: 1

April : April 27, 2006
Location: Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija
Researcher: Brando Gegway
No of dogs rescued: 7
Pound: La Union City Pound
No of People Prosecuted: 3

July : July 6, 2006
Location: Villasis, Pangasinan
Researcher: Greg Quimpo
No of dogs rescued: 8
Pound: AKF Rescue Center
No of People Prosecuted: 2

July : July 16, 2006
Location: Tuguegarao City
Researcher: Brando Gegway
No of dogs rescued: 16
Pound: AKF Rescue Center
No of People Prosecuted: 2


August : August 2006

Location: Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija
Researcher: Brando Gegway
No of dogs rescued: 2
Pound: AKF Rescue Center
No of People Prosecuted: 2

August : August 18, 2006
Location of Apprehension: Rosario, la Union
Researcher: Winston Samaniego
No of dogs rescued: 36
Pound: AKF Rescue Center
No of People Prosecuted: 2

August : August 30, 2006
Location of Apprehension: Tubao, La Union
Researcher: Winston Samaniego
No of dogs rescued: 45
Pound: AKF Rescue Center
No of People Prosecuted: 2

October: October 2006
Location: Baguio Public Market
Researcher: Brando Gegway
No of dog meat: 85 kilos
No of People Prosecuted: 3
Media Used: Sunstar, Midland, Zigzag, ABS-CBN

October : October 18, 2006
Location of Apprehension: La Trinidad, Baguio
Researcher: Brando Gegway
No of dogs rescued: 1 dog/ 86 dead
Pound: Adopted
No of People Prosecuted: 2

November : Nov. 2, 2006

Location of Apprehension:
San Fernando, La Union
Researcher: Winston Samaniego
No of dogs rescued: 30
Pound: AKF Rescue Center
No of People Prosecuted: 2

December : Dec. 2, 2006
Location of Apprehension:
Rosario, La Union
Researcher: Winston Samaniego/Brando Gegway
No of dogs rescued: 73
Pound: AKF Rescue Center
No of People Prosecuted: 2

 
   
 
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