Animal meat traders in Langowan Market, Minahasa, North Sulawesi province, Indonesia, kill dogs and cats for their market.

Filmed on June 25, dogs and cats are kept in small iron cages as they wait to be butchered by the people running the market stalls.

According to the filmer, this practice happens every day and many people have protested but the eating habits of dog and cat meat in area persists.

Besides dogs and cats, this market also sells snakes, bats, monitor lizards, crocodiles and sometimes monkey meat is sold at the market.

Animal meat traders in Langowan Market, Minahasa, North Sulawesi province, Indonesia, kill dogs and cats in a sadistic way.

The dogs are locked in an iron cage. Their faces are alarming and like begging not to be killed.

The executioners were cruel, then hit the heads of dogs and cats until they died. The body of the dog and cat is then burned, then sold.

This practice happens every day. Many people protested, but the eating habits of dog and cat meat in the Minahasa were very high.

Besides dogs and cats, this market also sells snakes, bats, monitor lizards, crocodiles and sometimes monkey meat.