article_snippet.sent: Pet cats are being snatched off the streets and killed in Pet cats ten of thousands across Asia - to feed the booming appetite for Pet cats meat in Vietnam.
article_snippet.sent: Restaurants serving domestic cats – sold as a delicacy known as 'baby tiger' – are springing up across northern Vietnam, despite laws against eating the animals.
article_snippet.sent: Caught, skinned and boned: A wheelbarrow load of cats  arrives at popular restaurant near Hanoi, Vietnam .
article_snippet.sent: Although eating cat meat is illegal, police officers and lawyers are among Vietnam's biggest customers.
article_snippet.sent: cat meat is so popular domestic cats are being stolen to order from the street and homes across Vietnam and smuggled across the border in tightly-packed trucks from neighbouring China and Laos.
article_snippet.sent: In January a lorry with three tonnes of cats crammed into bamboo cages stacked one on top of another was seized by police on a lorry with three tonnes of cats crammed into bamboo cages way to Hanoi from China.
article_snippet.sent: Ready for dinner plate: Caged cats caught and smuggled across the border to Vietnam will be killed for Caged cats meat, which is an expensive 'delicacy' in Asia .
article_snippet.sent: Many of the cats served up in Hanoi were smuggled from Laos or China through Thai Binh province where they are traded and then taken by lorry to Hanoi, Ngo Cong Thi said. '
article_snippet.sent: they can move up to 100 tonnes of cats a month from Thai Binh to Hanoi,' Ngo Cong Thi said. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Moggie meat served in Vietnam as an expensive delicacy called 'baby tiger'
  Serving cat is banned - but big customers are police officers and lawyers .
  