Once-Prized Tibetan Mastiffs Discarded as Fad Ends
At the New York Times, Andrew Jacobs reports on the bursting of a bubble in demand for Tibetan...
Apr 17, 2015
At the New York Times, Andrew Jacobs reports on the bursting of a bubble in demand for Tibetan...
Jun 23, 2014
Yulin, a southern city in China, kicked off its annual dog-eating festival over the weekend amid a...
May 27, 2014
Xinhua reports that a disease common among pet dogs poses a serious threat to China’s...
Mar 4, 2014
At The Atlantic, Damien Ma interviews the anonymous director of the soon-to-be-released...
Jun 23, 2013
Police in Beijing have been confiscating large pet dogs, including golden retrievers, labradors, collies, and many other breeds according to an official notice. Regulations from 2003 [zh] that labeled these breeds as...
Aug 4, 2011
Jiangmen authorities have backed down, for now, after warning pet owners in three city districts that any dogs found in public after August 26th would be seized and possibly killed. From the Global Times’ original report...
Oct 24, 2010
The New York Times looks at how the rise of pet ownership in Beijing heralds the rise of a new China: Twenty years ago, there were hardly any dogs in Beijing, and the few that were here stood a chance of landing on a dinner...
Dec 20, 2009
From USA Today: One is named Obama, another goes by Son of Bush. They charge tens of thousands of dollars for sex. Convoys of luxury cars, driven by fans, greet the most expensive studs at airports. Meet the canine gigolos — the...
Mar 17, 2008
In 2007 China spent $757 million on pet food and pet care. In 2008, that number is expected to increase by 15 percent to $870 million. It’s still peanuts — or kibbles — compared to what Americans spend on their...
Oct 5, 2005
From Independent: The start of the Chinese Year of the Dog is just four months away, but in the southern city of Guangzhou thousands of frightened dog owners and their pets are lying doggo after local authorities intensified a crackdown on unregistered animals. Unlicensed dogs are being rounded up by the police and, in the […]
Jul 31, 2005
From Time.com: The idea of keeping pets ” naughty or otherwise ” had long been taboo in the People’s Republic of China. During the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao’s Red Guards killed pet dogs by the tens of thousands, seeing them as symbols of the pampered bourgeoisie his Communist regime was out to eradicate. Even […]
Feb 14, 2005
From AFP, via News.com.au: Once banned as a bourgeois luxury, pet ownership is becoming big business in China with one in every nine Chinese now owning a dog, the Chinese state press reported today. China’s growing dog population has reached 150 million, with experts predicting that the market for dog food and accessories could reach […]