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[Chivas3]

Last Saturday, 157 dogs were discovered crowded into cages in a house in Tijuana.  Three men were arrested in connection with the discovery and an investigation ensued to determine the purpose of the odorous collection.  One of the strongest lines of inquiry is the possible sale of the animals to taco stands and fast food restaurants in Tijuana.  Although no results of the investigation have yet been published, today’s Frontera reports that there have been 20 requests for adoption of the dogs by local residents.


Frontera (Tijuana, Baja California) 2/17/09

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[George Costanza]

I'm hungry

[sugarpaws]

I'm hungry

I have thought much better of you than to say that. The things that you say are funny enough and educational and enlightening, that you do not have to make these kind of jokes. Please, they are just gross.

[George Costanza]

Sorry not everyone will have the same humor level, this has been a urban legend for years yet I don't remember one documented case backing this up. Even this news report said suspected.

You would get a lot less meat and a whole lot or work skinning 10 to 20 dogs over 1 cow which means higher pricing.

[Frantic1]

Last Saturday, 157 dogs were discovered crowded into cages in a house in Tijuana. Three men were arrested in connection with the discovery and an investigation ensued to determine the purpose of the odorous collection. One of the strongest lines of inquiry is the possible sale of the animals to taco stands and fast food restaurants in Tijuana. Although no results of the investigation have yet been published, today’s Frontera reports that there have been 20 requests for adoption of the dogs by local residents.


Frontera (Tijuana, Baja California) 2/17/09

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[Scribbles]

If you don't have laughter what do you have? That was funny George
Two years ago I lived across the street from an elderly couple that was taking strays off the street and nursing them back to health. The problem was they weren't leaving and before long there was 20 or so dogs hanging out and living with the couple. A few neighbors complained and rightfully so as the noise was unbearable at night. I even walked over to ask them to stop taking in the strays. After about a month of constant complaining and two or three police visits they came with a van and took away the animals. Believe it or not they do have an animal control unit. The couple was not arrested and given a warning. A few days later the Frontera had a small article they were suspected of being dog butchers for taco vendors.

Don't believe everything you read.

[otayBill]

Another rumor is they are using decapitated bodies in the tacos.

Wonder what they use at the hot dog stands.

[TJGringo]

I got a chuckle as well. Looks like the story was false or just that a story.

Dog story


TIJUANA — As a leading Baja California playwright, Edward Coward has won prizes and much critical praise for his powerful, heartrending pieces. But now he is at the center of an all-too-real saga featuring the plight of the city's abandoned dogs.

The 42-year-old Tijuana native has been the target of both fury and praise since the discovery of 157 canines crammed inside a three-bedroom house he rented in the comfortable middle-class neighborhood of El Mirador. Scenes of filth and overcrowding have been playing out on newscasts since Feb. 13, when state health officials raided the residence and municipal workers seized the dogs.

“I cannot stand to see an animal looking for help,” Coward said in an interview this week, at a second house on a hilltop across the city in Colinas del Sol, where he has been keeping 25 dogs. “Once you've opened your eyes to the problem, you can't close them anymore.”

Animal rescue advocates say the incident has at least forced discussion of a difficult issue: what to do with Tijuana's large population of street dogs, which one official estimated could number 300,000.

“There is little culture in the city for the respect and care of animals,” said Javier Castañeda Pomposo, Tijuana's secretary of social development. “We need to start following the lead of other cities and states.”

Leticia Coto, head of the Humane Society de Tijuana, says the solution involves licensing, adoption and sterilization programs, but also a change in attitude: “To this day, we fail to see dogs as living beings. There are many people who take better care of their car than of their dog.”

Neighbors increasingly fed up with the stench and sound of the animals in both neighborhoods where Coward has lived have little sympathy for him, saying he is eccentric, and even crazy.

Manuel Morales Riubi, head of the Baja California sanitary regulation office in Tijuana, said the Mirador residence, a half block from a public hospital, posed a risk for infection. Because many of the animals were crowded into cages, some suffered from muscle atrophy and couldn't walk, Morales said. The Colinas del Sol residence will be shut down in the next couple of weeks, he said.

Authorities said Coward had good intentions. Nevertheless, he could face a a state charge of endangering the lives of humans, an administrative infraction.

Tijuana has a dog pound, but its resources are limited, and the city looks to volunteer groups from both sides of the border to conduct spaying and neutering programs.

The municipal facility in eastern Tijuana has five communal cages, which each can hold 30 to 40 animals, along with 24 individual cages for aggressive dogs, said Dr. Marco Antonio Tapia Miranda, the pound's director. About 30 to 40 dogs are euthanized there twice a week with the help of a U.S. group, United Hope for Animals, he said.

Tapia said in 80 percent of the cases, the dogs running loose on city streets have owners. But Coto, president of the Humane Society de Tijuana, said that many are only nominally owned and are left to find their own food and shelter.

On Thursday, Mayor Jorge Ramos announced that by the end of the year, the city would establish a shelter for abandoned dogs on a 2.5-acre property in an unpopulated area of southern Tijuana. At a City Hall news conference, Ramos called on rescue groups and private citizens to join the city in its efforts to address the problem.

The publicity has helped; by yesterday, 80 of the dogs under Coward's care had been adopted, city officials said.

Coward said he has been picking up stray animals since he was a boy, but it wasn't until eight years ago that the activity began taking over his life. His dream was to save money and build a small ranch where he could care for the animals.

As a playwright, Coward won recognition for works that he wrote and directed. One play, “Pedro y Lola,” followed the life of a couple, and was inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's “Letters to a Young Poet.”

But in recent years, Coward said he became disenchanted with the theater world, and increasingly absorbed with rescuing animals. The burden soon became overwhelming.

Two years ago, Coward was forced to leave a rented house where he was keeping 150 dogs, so he moved them to the residence raided last week, where two of his drama students, Alejandra Loaiza and Mariana López, were already caring for 40 animals.

Coward said he supported his efforts by giving acting lessons, while the women sold candy on the street.

“My entire family was getting sick,” said José Macias, who lives next door. “There was not a single day that it didn't smell bad.”

Coward said he knew he had taken on too much, but could not find help. When fellow animal rescue advocates offered assistance, he said he ended up feeling exploited.

“Clearly I've committed many errors, but the truth is, I've been putting all of myself into this, everything I can do,” Coward said, at times verging on tears.

To those who suggest he lost control of the situation, Coward offers this response: “What's going on here is not my problem; it's the city's problem.”

[sugarpaws]

Sorry not everyone will have the same humor level, this has been a urban legend for years yet I don't remember one documented case backing this up. Even this news report said suspected.

You would get a lot less meat and a whole lot or work skinning 10 to 20 dogs over 1 cow which means higher pricing.

I'm just kidding ..but still eeewww! I have heard the stories and some of them even included cats!

[George Costanza]

It would seriously gross me out if I knew I ate dog or cat tacos but it looks like a reporter might have jumped a wrong conclusion