Co-founder and deputy chief of Cairo Animal Rescue Team (CART) Engy Tarek works at a dog shelter in Giza, Egypt, on July 5, 2018. With "the Voice of the Voiceless" as its slogan, Cairo Animal Rescue Team (CART), a vast dog shelter now home to about 800 dogs in Giza province near the Egyptian capital Cairo, sends its volunteers to reported cases of stray dogs in distress, like mangy dogs or those paralyzed, shot in the legs, hit by cars, beaten, burnt or strangled by people. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)

 Four dogs were abandoned at the front door of a stray dog shelter on Sunday in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning Province. Although disgusted at the behavior, the head of the shelter still decided to take the dogs in but accused the abandoners of moral coercion.

According to the video taken by a surveillance camera at the shelter's front door, two women furtively dropped the box of dogs at the shelter's entrance and ran away. 

The stray dog shelter has adopted more than 400 pets abandoned by their owners since its inception three years ago. It's not the first time that someone has directly left a pet at the stray dog shelter, said the person in charge of the shelter surnamed Liu.

Despite the anger at the two women's irresponsibility and impudence of emotionally blackmailing and forcing her to adopt the four dogs, Liu still took them in. "After all, the dogs are innocent," she said.

The incident has become a hot topic on Sina Weibo, China's Twitter-like platform, with netizens feeling angry towards the women's irresponsible act.

"The government should launch regulations on pet keeping to forbid such behavior," one netizen commented on Sina Weibo.

Global Times