Shanghai netizens save 860 cats

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 chaos. 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 destined 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 compensation to for release of the cats.