A council chairman has claimed China has shown interest in helping Bahrain deal with its stray dog problem by having them shipped to the Far East.
Muharraq Municipal Council heard a call to activate a ministerial decision to export stray dogs issued in May last year.
It follows an attack on a young boy in Diyyar Al Muharraq on Thursday which was captured on CCTV.
Chairman Abdulaziz Al Naar told the meeting: “The humanely captured dogs will be handled with care and transferred to the Khalifa Bin Salman Port to be exported to interested countries.
“The Chinese have shown the biggest interest to have them shipped to their provinces and whether they raise them as pets, or eat them, is none of our concern.”
He said that the recent stray dog attack on the boy was not a one-off incident with the council receiving daily complaints of similar incidents.
Strays are currently send to fur-ever homes for adoption in the UK and Canada. In the 21st century, dog meat is consumed to a limited extent in South Korea, China, Nigeria, Switzerland and Vietnam, and it is eaten, or is legal to be eaten, in other countries throughout the world.
It takes about 25 to 32 days to reach a Chinese seaport from Bahrain.
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