In Bobby’s Honour, We Will Never Give Up the Fight to End Indonesia’s Dog Meat Trade

Added on Thursday, 30 August 2018

We found Bobby sitting in a wire cage in a busy dog meat market in North Sulawesi whilst we were conducting investigations in December 2017. He was surrounded by scenes from a horror movie, and the terror in his eyes was haunting. We knew we couldn’t leave him.

After he was rescued, Bobby was taken to our wonderful partner’s at Animal Friends Manado Indonesia’s (AFMI’s) sanctuary where, in time, he learned what compassion, love and joy felt like. He moved on from the horrors he had endured at the hands of the traders and truly loved life again.

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT HIS RESCUE HERE

It breaks our heart that he left this world too soon, on the morning of August 28^th... But he left having known love and with a name. And in his name, we will never give up until the dog and cat meat trades end throughout Indonesia.

Bobby meant so much to all of us and represented what the campaign represented - Fixing the world’s wrongs for all of those we can whilst we fight on to make sure no other dogs suffer like he did. He will forever be a very beautiful spirit and will always give us the strength and courage to never give up.

In Bobby’s honour, please take action today by making YOUR voice heard.

Please sign & share the petition far and wide calling on President Joko Widodo to ban the dog and cat meat trades.

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In Bobby’s Honour

It breaks our heart that he left this world too soon, but he left having known love and with a name. And in his name, we will never give up until the dog and cat meat trades end throughout Indonesia.

Hero’s Story

The Dog Meat Free-Indonesia coalition spent many long and heartbreaking months investigating the inner-workings of the dog meat trade throughout Indonesia. As people who do what we do because we care so passionately about animals, doing investigations never gets any easier. It is soul-destroying and heart-breaking, but essential in documenting the reality of the trade so that we are best-positioned to fight it, and to ultimately realise our goal of ending the dog meat trade.

But we always save those we can…

On one particular day, we had the chance to save a dog who we named 'Hero'.

Change is coming in Indonesia and throughout Asia… Never before has the dog meat trade or the consumption of dog meat been questioned the way it is now. People are turning their backs on a trade and a practice that can no longer hide behind a defense of ‘culture’ or ‘tradition’.