UPDATE @ 4:31pm CT: I just got an instant message from my mom, outraged at the graphic dog images used in this post. They are definitely a part of this story so I am not completely removing them, but incase others would have the same reaction and not be able to handle the images, I've blured them on the post, but you can click them to see the actual images if you choose to.

Setting aside the protest logos we've all been creating to mock Google's caving in to Chinese censorship, this is the REAL logo currently at Google.cn, obviously to usher in the Year of the Dog (happy version linked here).

The REAL Chinese Year of the Dog, via AFP

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"Millions of dogs (in China) are hanged, beaten with sticks and butchered while they are still alive," it said in a press release.

The organisation added that it had tried to get French media to accept an advertisement as part of its campaign against dog butchering, but the picture -- of an animal being cut to pieces in a pool of blood -- was so graphic that it had been rejected by every newspaper.

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Up to 10 million dogs are slaughtered every year in China, many killed slowly and cruelly to supposedly enhance the meat's flavour, according to animal rights groups.

It's odd that this is a French group upset with China's practices, considering this is how they deal with their own stray dogs. (via The Sun)

STRAY dogs are being skewered on hooks and dragged behind boats as live shark bait, The Sun can shockingly reveal.

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