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Couple adopts pups after pets culled over COVID fears
STORY: These new adopted puppies will never replace this Vietnamese couple’s previous pack. But it might help Nguyen Thi Chi Em and Pham Minh Hung to heal from the trauma and heartbreak, after the authorities culled their 15 dogs while they were in quarantine recovering from COVID-19. “I was sad and cried a lot from missing the other culled dogs so my husband comforted me and told me we will raise other puppies. On that day, when we were taken away to quarantine, I found out from the internet at around 2 p.m. that the authorities had killed them.”According to local media reports, authorities said they culled the animals over fears the canines would transmit the coronavirus from their owners to others.The story captured the hearts of the Vietnamese – many of whom expressed online outrage against authorities and raised donations for the couple.The couple plans to adopt eight more pups. And they vow to protect them. “I am still scared. I am afraid that if they were to kill my dogs again I would be extremely upset. I won’t let that happen again. If they try to do it again I will take these babies and run away. We would go into hiding in the jungle if that would save them. I will see it through. I won’t let them be killed again because I cannot go through such heartbreak a second time.”
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