Animal market ends trade of cats, dogs

AUTHORITIES announced the end of the “brutally cruel” dog and cat meat slaughter at a notorious animal market on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi following a years-long campaign by local activists and world celebrities.

The Tomohon Extreme Market will become the first such market in Indonesia to go dog and cat meat-free, according to the anti-animal cruelty group Humane Society International (HSI). Images of dogs and cats being bludgeoned and blow-torched while still alive had previously sparked outrage.