From the UK Times Online:
One woman was walking her small white dog near her home in Mouding county in Yunnan when several men approached her. They persuaded her to hand them the lead and then beat her pet to death while she watched. Only military dogs guarding an ammunition storehouse and police dogs were spared the slaughter.
Pet ownership, shunned during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution as a bourgeois pastime, has become increasingly popular in the past few years.
Dogs are popular as companions among the elderly and as status symbols among a class of newly rich middle class. Beijing alone has 400,000 dogs.
Bourgeois? Yeah, I'm feeling real classy when I'm cleaning out the litter box.
-LB
1 comment:
You would figure beating the dogs to death would take too long.
Yeah, ditto on the cat litter, and nothing says "bourgeois" like a trip around the yard with a pooper-scooper.
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