It’s been a distressing month for pet lovers in Hong Kong. Last week more than 130 kittens and puppies were confiscated in the city’s largest seizure of smuggled pets . The traumatised animals were crammed inside 17 plastic crates on a speed boat intercepted in Tuen Mun. One crate contained 16 cats. The haul of young and pedigree breeds was estimated to be worth more than HK$1.4 million (US$178,000). According to Senior Inspector Tang Sau-yin, of Hong Kong customs’ marine enforcement group, the animals were either bought online by private buyers before being smuggled into Hong Kong from mainland China,…