THE COWCAT STORY HAS ANOTHER TRAGIC CHAPTER
In 2023, Jack Latiao tortured a cat now remembered as CowCat and shared footage of the abuse online.
Police administratively detained him. His accounts were also banned.
But the underlying legal gap remained: China still has no comprehensive animal-protection law, and its criminal law contains no specific animal-cruelty offense.
Now animal-welfare volunteer networks are reporting another horrific chapter.
A young woman who had reportedly spent months trying to locate Jack allegedly stabbed him before subsequently dying by suicide.
These latest details have not yet been independently confirmed by police or major news organizations.
If they are confirmed, nobody should celebrate this.
CowCat deserved protection. A young woman should not be dead. And nobody should ever feel that confronting cruelty personally, with violence, is the only path available to them.
This is not justice for CowCat. It is another tragedy.
China’s leaders repeatedly emphasize social stability. Official Chinese government documents explicitly describe safeguarding social stability as an important state priority.
Well, this is what instability can look like: anger, desperation and helplessness spilling into something even more terrible when people believe the existing system has failed to address horrific cruelty.
How much death, pain and suffering will it take before China seriously confronts the gaps in its animal-protection laws?
CowCat should still be alive.
Wang Wang and her puppies should still be alive.
And if these latest reports are confirmed, another young woman should still be alive.
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