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...
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LatestYulin Dog Meat Festival Proceeds Despite Protests
Yulin, a southern city in China, kicked off its annual dog-eating festival over the weekend amid a...
Canine Virus May Hurt The Felines Of The Chinese People
Xinhua reports that a disease common among pet dogs poses a serious threat to China’s...
China’s New Dissidents: Dog Owners
At The Atlantic, Damien Ma interviews the anonymous director of the soon-to-be-released...
Police Seize Pet Dogs From Beijing Homes
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...
Guangdong City's Dogs Face Uncertain Future
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...
Once Banned, Dogs Reflect China’s Rise
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...
Chinese Put These Dogs On Pedestals
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...
China’s Rising Standard of Living Applies to Pets Too
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...
Chinese dog-lovers live in fear as cull claims thousands of pets – David Eimer
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
E-mail From Shanghai: Return of the Bourgeois Dogs – Hannah K. Beech
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,
AFP: Chinese own 150 million pet dogs
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
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