Shanghai netizens save 860 cats

时间：2007-07-25 08:48:05

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Chinanews, Guangzhou, Jul. 25 – Shanghai netizens recently saved 860 cats, which would have been sent to Guangzhou to make food. Astonishingly, most of these cats are pets owned by ordinary citizens in Shanghai.

 

Duo Zirong, a netizen in Shanghai, leaned from the Internet that some people were packing cats onto 2 trucks. She called the police, and one truck escaped during the chaos1. Other netizens came and found 860 cats in the truck.

 

All these cats were tiny and wore chaplets and small bells, which made netizens and the police think the cats were stolen from common citizens. They also learned that some cats stolen from Wuxi and Suzhou were also packed in Shanghai, to be destined2 be sent to Guangdong and Hainan provinces.

 

But the criminal suspects argued that the cats were for sale, that one cat could be sold in Guangdong at 14 yuan, and all cats in the truck could be sold at 20 thousand yuan in total. The police officers came and seized all 860 cats, and netizens helped to release all of them. A 52-year-old civil servant paid 5,000 yuan to the criminal suspects in compensation3 to for release of the cats.

 
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1 chaos 7bZyz     
n.混乱，无秩序
参考例句：
  • After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后，城市一片混乱。
  • The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。
2 destined Dunznz     
adj.命中注定的；(for)以…为目的地的
参考例句：
  • It was destined that they would marry.他们结婚是缘分。
  • The shipment is destined for America.这批货物将运往美国。
3 compensation vXIy6     
n.补偿（或赔偿）的款物，补偿，赔偿
参考例句：
  • Workers who have been unfairly dismissed may claim compensation.被无理开除的工人可以要求补偿。
  • Equal compensation should be given to men and women for equal work.男女同工应同酬。

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