Shanghaiist: Doggy dating? Local pet adoption group not laughing

Cate

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:37:33 +0800

The Shanghai Daily showed a lack of judgement and a great deal of avarice in promoting this 'matchmaking' company and the idea of dog breeding as a 'fun' thing to do. To promote/profit from more indiscriminate dog breeding in a city which does not even have an animal shelter is careless and irresponsible. When the paper inevitably writes about the problems caused by the number of stray dogs of Shanghai, will they remember their part in this?

MARY

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:18:08 +0800

Truly sad. These type of people need to get the head out of their *****!!. Please save a life adopt a pet from scaa or the humane society. there are too many homeless pets because of idiots like this out there. Mary & Becker

CJ

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:10:32 +0800

Recently I spent 10 days harvesting wheat in the village of Hong Chen (pop. 600) near Meng Cheng City (pop. 62,400), Anhui. In this small village each household has at least one dog and most have two or three. The dogs are feed mostly table scraps for food and are rather skinny. None ever seem to be aggressive when you go by them, perhaps they are too weak to do so. They just lay around during most of the day. Come night fall though they do bark a lot when anyone passes their owner's property. That's why they have them. So I had to ask, with so many dogs in such a tiny village what do they do with them? Some are sent to the city to be sold on the black market. The rest or, as I understand it, most of them are disposed of as if they were rats right after they are born. No one eats them in this village. Pretty sad situation if you ask me. CJ