The heart-breaking images of 1,000 dogs stuffed into cages to be sold as meat... but they've been rescued
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 4:23 PM on 13th August 2011
They were destined to be cooked and eaten, but these suffering dogs luckily escaped their gruesome fate.
Police in Thailand rescued more than 1,000 of the animals from tiny cages when they intercepted four trucks attempting to smuggle them out of the country.
The dogs -stacked high in scores of crates - were being transported to Vietnam as officers swooped in two raids in Nathom and Si Songkhram districts near the border with Laos.
Saved: Scores of dogs crammed into tiny cages were rescued by police as they were being smuggled out of Thailand into Vietnam where they would have been sold for their meat
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 4:23 PM on 13th August 2011
They were destined to be cooked and eaten, but these suffering dogs luckily escaped their gruesome fate.
Police in Thailand rescued more than 1,000 of the animals from tiny cages when they intercepted four trucks attempting to smuggle them out of the country.
The dogs -stacked high in scores of crates - were being transported to Vietnam as officers swooped in two raids in Nathom and Si Songkhram districts near the border with Laos.