Since one of my coworkers is a big cat fan, I dedicate this to him. If you’re reading this, you know who are you are.

Via Pajamas Media, this article at the Daily Mail reveals that China thinks cats are unclean:

Thousands of pet cats in Beijing are being abandoned by their owners and sent to die in secretive government pounds as China mounts an aggressive drive to clean up the capital in preparation for the Olympic Games.

Hundreds of cats a day are being rounded and crammed into cages so small they cannot even turn around.

Then they are trucked to what animal welfare groups describe as death camps on the edges of the city.

The cull comes in the wake of a government campaign warning of the diseases cats carry and ordering residents to help clear the streets of them.

Death camps? We mean “Happy Camps”, where the cats will receive the best in medical and dental care!

See, the nice thing about being a smug person of European descent is that I learned in school about this thing called bubonic plague, which only wiped out a third of my early ancestors every couple of generations. Apparently, it was spread via fleas that lived on rats… now, what eats rats again? It’s okay, though - China’s not near any bubonic infested areas.

The disorder is most common in Southeast Asia, but it also occurs in some areas of the United States.

Oh. Never mind. At least they kept SARS away, though, right?

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