Hello everyone, I'm in Alaska with glasses and a microphone, tablet.
I'm very angry right now.
I think everyone paid attention to a news the other day:
Fan Yuanqing, a senior at Shandong University of Technology, tortured and killed more than 80 stray cats and made videos to sell online.
This matter was exposed to Weibo by enthusiastic netizens, and a stone stirred up thousands of waves.
On April 9, the school authorities, under pressure from public opinion, only conducted a "serious criticism education" on Fan Yuanqing, who also pretended to send an apology letter on Weibo.
However, late at night on April 13, Fan Yuanqing tweeted that he had already dealt with the school leaders.
If this affected his education, he would continue to kill 1,000 cats.
The authenticity of this screenshot can no longer be verified, because Fan Yuanqing's Weibo content has been completely emptied, but the incident is still fermenting.
And before I talk about this, I want to take you to watch a documentary together -
Cat Story
Perhaps this documentary will adapt everyone's old view of cats, and can more intuitively feel how cruel the "cat abuser" is.
In 2009, a Fuji television crew traveled across Japan to find and document cute cats that coexisted with humans.
The story of loyal cat Abang
It is said that cats are born thin, and Tokyo's busiest ginza district has a "story of loyal cat A-peng".
This tortoiseshell cat Ah Peng was originally an ordinary stray cat, and it is really not cute in terms of looks.
One day, I happened to pass by Ginza, and my white-collar sister took him in.
But the white-collar sister can't keep cats where she lives, and coupled with the busy work, she worries about neglecting to take care of Ah Peng.
So he had to build a warm cat house outside the café he passed every day and entrust it to the manager.
As the manager of the cat slave, he naturally has nothing to say about Ah Peng, and the white-collar sister will spend some time with him every day when she commutes to work.
But there is no unbroken feast in the world, and the white-collar sister is married, married to a far place, and has to say goodbye to her friends.
But the stubborn Ah Peng will still wait for his benefactor at the intersection every day after the white-collar sister leaves.
Although the manager of the cat slave shop repeatedly seduced Ah Peng with various delicacies and wanted him to live in the store, every day a different person passed by and proposed to adopt Ah Peng.
But Ah Peng never left the cottage left by his white-collar sister for half a step.
The cat's personality determines the way they express their feelings, and they will certainly not be as unrestrained and enthusiastic as dogs, but they are also silent.
"Old Chinese Medicine In Animal Hospital"
In Tokyo's Katsushi ward, there is an animal hospital that has been open for thirty-seven years.
This animal hospital, called Akazawa, specializes in treating animals with serious diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.
And it is best known not for the doctor's clever medical skills, but for a special attendant, the sixteen-year-old cat Kirby.
If this age is converted into a human, it is an eighty- or ninety-year-old grandfather.
His mission is to accompany the owners of sick pets and relieve their anxieties, like the psychiatrist at this hospital.
Ten years ago, Dr. Akazawa at the hospital met Kirby at the door, and he was already dying of illness and had to be rescued from the ghost gate.
Perhaps it was this experience that gave Kabi a special understanding of the mood of patients and their families.
Sometimes Kirby accompanies not only the owner, but also the sick animal.
Amazingly, as long as Kirby is with him, even the restless cats, dogs and dogs will be quiet in an instant.
Cats are sometimes like dogs, like a silent guardian, with language blocking the possibility of direct communication, but they will convey kindness with their actions.
Let's live together, Hide!
Speaking of silence, this thoughtful kitten sitting in front of the window is called Pingzang, and you may not have seen a cat that can sit cross-legged, right?
In fact, Hirazo could only sit on his stomach or cross-legged because 12 years ago he suffered a car accident and his lower body was almost completely crushed by a truck.
It was also on that day that he and his master Hirano met for the first time.
Hirano comes to the hospital with the dying Hirazo, and the doctor's advice to Hirano is... Arrange euthanasia as soon as possible.
But Hirano read from Hirazo's eyes that he wanted to live.
After emergency rescue, Hirazo finally survived, and he and his master Hirano were dependent on each other.
Because Hirazo has limited mobility, Hirano takes Hirano to work with him every day.
What Pingzang is most looking forward to is the walk at noon every day.
His walks were different from other kittens: Hirano had to hold his lower body behind him all the time, and if they didn't cooperate enough, they couldn't move forward.
Isn't it the relationship between people and cats?
The Kingdom of Cats
Cats are really a spiritual pillar for some people.
For example, Tashiro Island, located in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, has a 12-kilometer radius and is not as large as any district in Beijing.
There are only 70 residents on the island, but there are nearly 100 cats, so it is also known as The "Cat Island" in Japan.
The island's inhabitants mainly depend on fishing, so when it comes to meals, the port is full of cats, waiting for the fishermen to distribute food.
The streets are strange, and flocks of cats can be seen everywhere, and they will take the initiative to be intimate with tourists.
The most famous of these is the island's first cat, "Jack with a Hanging Ear".
He was afraid of water, afraid of the cold, afraid of other cats, and the fish in his mouth could not be saved.
Only he is not afraid of people - he has a good relationship with the Hama couple who later moved to Tashiro Island, and he also relies on Mr. Hama's generous charity to raise fat and fat.
And such a foreign population as the Bin couple has not met a few for decades.
In fact, in its heyday, Tashiro Island had a population of several thousand people. However, as young people left the island to settle in the big cities, only the elderly and cats were left on the island.
The average age of the inhabitants of Tashiro Island is 70 years old...
Without these cats, it is hard to imagine what life would have been like for the 70 elderly people on the island.
Cats and people, who also act as both givers and beneficiaries, achieve great harmony on the island.
In Japan, there are many "cat islands" like Tashiro Island, such as The Horse Island in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.
On this small island of only 0.26 square kilometers, there are about 90 wild cats living there.
The cats on the island get along well with the 30 inhabitants and are completely defenseless against humans.
The quiet life came to an abrupt end in 2019, and disaster befell it.
In May 2019, some islanders reported that suspicious bait was found in several places, including fields and near the office of the Fisheries Association.
Some of the chopped marine fish are wrapped in a layer of blue drug-like things.
These blue things are pesticides, and someone deliberately wrapped pesticides on these marine fish to feed cats.
Residents immediately turned to Fukuoka City's animal protection group, which called for help, but by this time there were only 30 cats left on the island.
Two-thirds of cats have died after experiencing the pain of convulsions and foaming.
They were not defensive against humans at all, how could they think that these delicious baits were deadly poisons?
In fact, similar incidents of cruelty to animals have emerged in an endless stream, "China's first abuse of catwoman", "high heels stepping on the head of a kitten", "peeling a kitten alive"...
Search for a keyword at random at a certain point, and you can get angry and shiver.
Let's go back to Fan Yuanqing's cat abuse incident, the latest development is that Shandong University of Technology has issued a suspension punishment for him.
When I first saw this news, I even had a little regret: I graduated with two months left, and now I am being withdrawn from school, what can I do about the future of this child?
But when I watched the cat abuse video he shot for only a few seconds, I only hated that he didn't stand in front of me: Still TM Future? I beat him back on the spot!
He abused cats, not just two, but more than 80!
These cats did not affect his life, they were stray cats with nothing to do with him.
He used the stray cats' trust in humans to trick them into the house, using electric shocks, whipping, and beating them with hammers, slowly taking their lives.
When I saw the scarred cat curled up in the corner, not daring to resist at all, just trying to lick the bloody wound, my Heavenly Spirit Cover was about to explode.
Some people have associated this matter with eating dog meat and the "Yulin Dog Meat Festival" in an attempt to counter the "Virgin" of cat lovers.
But in my opinion, the nature of this matter is even worse.
He kills cats, not for food, nor simply because he hates them, but to get pleasure from deprivation of life and seek profits, so he will use the means of torture.
And our accusations against him only stayed in the "no", not "can't".
In terms of accountability, we are in a very embarrassing situation.
Is it illegal to abuse animals? Not against the law!
Because there is currently no written law prohibiting animal cruelty in China, the Anti-Cruelty to Animals Law is still a draft.
Is it illegal to sell videos of animal cruelty?
The answer is also not to break the law.
In fact, China is constantly strengthening the legal system of animal protection: the Animal Husbandry Law, the Wildlife Protection Law, the Experimental Animal Management Regulations...
These laws and regulations all make efforts to protect animals.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China also responded positively to the suggestion of Xia Wu Dolma, a deputy to the National People's Congress, to "formulate the Law on Animal Rights and Interests and the Prohibition of Cruelty to Animals", and believes that the draft will be issued soon.
Moreover, there is another criterion above the law, that is, morality, human nature.
The cat abuse incident has not yet subsided, and on April 16, some netizens broke the news that Chen Mou of the Medical College of Nantong University abused the dog through "electric shock, mustard irrigation" and other methods.
The student was suspended from school last April for dog abuse.
The people who broke the news are netizens, many netizens who have never known each other, do not care about the fate of cats, cats, dogs and dogs for profit, it seems to have nothing to do with grand purposes, and in the eyes of some netizens, there is even a little hypocrisy.
I want you to understand:
To love animals is to love people, as Schopenhauer said:
"The social moral system should be interlocking, and it is inconceivable that a person who has no sympathy or responsibility for the lives of weak animals, or even treats animals brutally, can care for and tolerate others."
In a tweet late last year, I introduced a Netflix documentary: "Don't Mess with Cats: Tracking Down Cat Abusers."
Fan Yuanqing's behavior is the same as that of the perverted murderer Luca Rocco Maniota in the documentary:
Luca also initially filmed and disseminated videos of animal cruelty on the heavy taste website Best Gore, but was later chased and intercepted by animal protection groups.
Looking at the angry netizens, Luca not only did not have the slightest fear, but also gained a different kind of pleasure.
Just as the heat was dissipating, Luca reappeared online and posted a murder trailer.
He said he would kill someone live in the next video.
Eventually, he repeatedly stabbed an ice pick into the body of Lin Jun, a Chinese student, and dismembered the body.
He even ate part of the corpse...
I'm not alluding to the fact that this brutal college student will inevitably embark on an extreme anti-social path in the future, I'm just sounding the alarm about this phenomenon.
The Internet only has seven days of memory, and the limelight of cat abuse has gradually subsided, and probably no one will remember the 80 cats who were tortured and killed soon.
So I hope to use this tweet to document and debate something.
From the beast that succumbs to desire and drinks blood, to the "reed grass" that has reason and can think, it has taken tens of thousands of years for human beings.
The brain is a good thing, and I hope that everyone can cherish this hard-won wisdom and rationality.
Otherwise, he was not even as good as a beast, at least the beast killed for survival, not for pleasure.
I hope that every tiny soul can be treated with tenderness.
I'll talk about it today, we'll see you next time.
Bye bye bye.