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chinaboytian · Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 132 Location: Tianjin

Dogs are very rare in China, and usually not allowed. Some Chinese have to pay one year's salary just for a permit to keep a dog. You would be wise to when in Rome, do as the Romans due. Otherwise you looked like a spoiled little lao wai who has to have his little doggie britches!.

cj750 · Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 3081 Location: Beijing

You cant swing a dead cat without hitting a dog in China..and the licensing fee is normal ...Changchun around 500RMB and in Beijing around 1000 with renewals much less...
Most Chinese do not register their dogs..preferring to just keep them out of site while yearly checks are going on..actually right now Beijing is mounting a campaign to check licences...

chinaboytian · Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 132 Location: Tianjin

Man, I don't know where you live, but I lived in China three years and saw three dogs in the whole three years.

I also saw three cats one time, but that was in the Zoo. lol, cats were so rare in China that they were put on display as rare ZOO animals. lol.
Chinese were so unused to seeing them, I looked at the zoo cage and it contained only three white house cats. lol.

Perhaps you lived in the country, but in Tianjin, dogs and cats are extremely rare.

Plus, Chinese are not so stupid as to have an unregistered dog, for when they get caught they get slapped with a fine amounting to a year's salary.

cj750 · Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 3081 Location: Beijing

After having seen numerous dogs as well as other animals being sold on the street in Changchun, I located a pet market..literally hundreds of dogs for sale..and in Beijing the amount of pet shops is staggering..
The market at Tianjin often has pets for sale incl. dog...and when did you ever know the Chinese people to obey the law...and I have owned "Jackson" for almost 4 years now..bought him when living on campus at a school in the North East...he has even ridden on the train with us...although we had to buy a VIP room..nice though with a private bathroom...what China are you in..

tw · Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 3898

cj750 · Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 3081 Location: Beijing

Yea..and they sell them across the street from Mikey Ds....dealers with pups in their pockets...

Babala · Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 1303 Location: Henan

To the OP,
Hold your ground. There is nothing worse than the school trying to tell you that you seem to have your own rules. I have 2 cats and there is NO WAY I would ever give them up. Besides, what do they think the dog would go if you did give it up? There is sure no animal shelter here!

Bayden · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 988

chinaboytian · Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 132 Location: Tianjin

At a risk of being criticized for this, we used to go with students to a Korean restaurant on campus which had "dog" on the menu, they call it Gou Rou. I had never eaten dog before, people in the states would condemn me for eating their pet Fido. It turned out to be delicious, something like Roast Beef with a little stronger flavor, but very tasty. Several times I enjoyed eating your household pet either roasted or as hot flavorful dog soup. I don't think Chinese people are used to it, though, but Koreans sometimes are.

I don't know where they got their dog, whether they stole it off the street from some stray dog, or whether they bought it from the black market.

I know I will get berated for this by the PETA animal rights activists on here. lol Twisted Evil

poopsicola · Joined: 18 Jan 2006 Posts: 111 Location: World travelling

It's a foolhardy dog that wanders alone in a Hubei street in winter. I've seen more than one dognabbed and butchered. I've seen entire truckloads of dogs, all crated up, going south from Jingmen to some southern hotpot. One dressed dog looks much like another, I imagine - but some of those undressed, still-roaming mungs I've seen haven't looked too appetizing to me. Still, de gustibus non est disputandum, I guess.

cj750 · Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 3081 Location: Beijing

the dog you eat is bred for the dinner table...called "Stupid Dog"

Bayden · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 988

I don't like it. May be the way they cook it here in the south but it's just too greasy for me.

tw · Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 3898

cj750 · Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 3081 Location: Beijing

I have actually never seen one...er dressed....you know ..with fur and all...but hanging on the hook ..they look damn big...

chinaboytian · Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 132 Location: Tianjin

Please forgive me, I ate man's best friend. PETA thugs are after me now, they want my hide. I got news for them. That spinach plant those veggies ate for supper is screaming bloody murder as it goes down their gullet. They are guilty of killing living things, so why can't I eat meat, they are both living things.

I don't cremate my deceased pet. I don't treat dogs on an equal level with human beings.