- INTERVIEWER:
Now the next question is, you know, eating dogs
is a local practice here. Is that
it
concerned with rabies?
- PIOK: Of
course it is.
- INTERVIEWER:
Yeah.
- PIOK:
Because the dogs that we eat, we dont
examine them or we dont inspect them. They dont undergo meat inspection because
here its ah, its not allowed.
- INTERVIEWER:
Okay.
- PIOK:
(Laughs) The butchered dogs. Thats
why it doesnt go through the process of
meat inspection.
- INTERVIEWER:
Oh! Okay.
- PIOK:
Uhum.
- INTERVIEWER:
I mean, is it
I mean you dont have to
answer, but is it a concern that dogs that are
auctioned from here may go to slaughter?
You know?
- PIOK: That,
thats possible.
- INTERVIEWER:
Okay.
- PIOK:
Because although we put there that their auction
will be for pet purposes or for, you know, we
have to take care of it. But then if we go
to monitor the dogs in their houses here, we are
not sure if what they are showing us are really
the dogs that they got from here.
- INTERVIEWER:
Alright.
- PIOK:
And sometimes those people who auction the dogs
are not really from Baguio City. They are
also outside the City of Baguio and so we
dont really monitor as far as outside the
City of Baguio.
- INTERVIEWER:
Okay.
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