China News Agency, Johannesburg, October 5 (Reporter Wang Xi) The South African National Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) disclosed a serious animal cruelty incident on the 5th: after the fire broke out in Bloemfontein, the judicial capital of South Africa in August this year, a family The farm that domesticated African lions refused to provide treatment for injured animals. As a result, 30 African lions had to be euthanized because of their injuries.

  Senior Inspector Meyer of the National Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in South Africa revealed that after the fire broke out, the organization contacted an African lion farm in the disaster-stricken area and asked if the 59 African lions it raised needed help because of the breeding. The field was completely destroyed in this fire.

Unexpectedly, the person in charge of the breeding farm claimed that he had not suffered any damage and refused to accept the inspection.

  The investigator, who was full of doubts about this incident, came back the next day and found that a large number of African lions were injured in the fire.

Subsequently, the investigator asked the person in charge of the farm to provide treatment for the injured animal.

As a result, the veterinarian who went to the outpatient treatment was soon discovered that the diagnosis was falsified: it claimed that the medicine prescribed could last for three days, but the facts proved that it could only last for one day.

  Under this circumstance, Meyer led the veterinarian of the South African National Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to the farm for the third time, and the result was surprising.

30 African lions were too severely injured to be treated and had to be euthanized.

"The lions' paws are full of blisters, and they fall down when they try to stand up. There are also some lions whose mouths are burned to eat, and they are very weak and thin due to hunger." She said.

  In addition, the South African National Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals also found that the lions raised in this African lion farm have long-term problems such as malnutrition and insufficient space for activities.

As South Africa has extremely strict animal protection regulations, the South African National Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is currently passing legal measures to plan to severely punish the African lion farm that caused the accident.

  Meyer pointed out that the occurrence of this incident is most likely to be related to the South African government’s announcement this year that it bans captive breeding and breeding of lions for economic benefits, including for hunting and making lion cubs for tourists to play.

"Once lions are useless for these farms, no one would dare to imagine their fate," she said.

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