Cats Drowned, Eaten at Festival

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Every year on the third Saturday and Sunday in September, at what is known as the “Cat’s Party” or “Party of the Curruñao,” 100 cats are drowned, butchered, and EATEN as part of the feast of St. Efigenia in the village of La Quebrada in San Luis de Cañete, Peru.

Video footage from a previous year’s festival shows terrified cats being pinned down in buckets of water to slowly die, their carcasses then cooked and body parts eaten by participants.

Drowning is a horrifying, painful way to die, but despite Peruvian laws explicitly stating that only authorized personnel may religiously sacrifice animals using the most humane methods possible, this event has continued.

Take Action: Please POLITELY tell Peruvian officials that you and everyone you know will boycott travel to Peru until the cruel and illegal slaughter of cats in La Quebrada is stopped.

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peru,
a land of great beauty
and mystery…
festivals like the barbaric
Party of the Curruñao,
should be history.
no tourist dollars
from many of us
will be seen,
unless you stop
this act,
obscene!

Karen Lyons Kalmenson