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> Polls show that 87 per cent of people in Vietnam have had a pet mysteriously stolen, or know someone whose pet was taken, it added.
> Doanh drowned the doomed cats by holding them down with a stick in a bucket of water, he told Metro.
> “For a while now I have felt a genuine desire to leave the cruel cat meat business and switch to something else as soon as possible. When I think of all the thousands of cats I’ve slaughtered and served up here over the years, it’s upsetting,” Doanh said in the HSI’s official statement.
> “Cat theft is so common in Vietnam that I know many of the cats sold here were someone’s loved family companion, and I feel very sorry about that.
So he stole people's cats and drowned them.