Chinese government said it won't take place, but Humane Society International received information that it will take place and about 10 000 cats and dogs were brutally killed for the meat.

Since May, almost a quarter of a million tweets have been posted using the hashtag #StopYulin2015, with most of the activity coming from the UK, the US and Australia. One of the loudest voices has been the US animal welfare group Duo Duo, whose change.org petition calling for the cancellation of the event has received more than 200,000 signatures.

Look at this fella - begging for help.

He had luck - Peter Li from HSI bought him and three other animals, so they will only be choked a little by this "leash" and shoved in a cage and not clubbed to death like the remaining animals. Peter Li had only enough money to save 4 animals.