pets have been found dead in cardboard boxes at a shipping facility in China. The animals included rabbits, guinea pigs, cats and dogs, which had all been held in plastic or metal cages wrapped in cardboard boxes with breathing holes.
Their tragic deaths are likely to have been a result of a miscommunication in the supply chain of China's thriving mass-breeding industry, it has been reported.An investigation into the horror discovery has now been launched after only a couple hundred animals were saved.
Sister Hua, the founder of animal rescue group Utopia, told CBS News: "The station was cluttered with express boxes with thousands of animals that had already died, and the entire place reeks of rotting bodies.
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