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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: To many puppies for the number of adult dogs?
I know that some of them must wind up in soup after a certain age, but really. Has anyone else noticed that it seems like every few hundred yards down town in any city you walk past someone with a puppy where as people with adult dogs are not nearly that common?
where do all the puppies GO? I know that food cant account for all of that. do people just stop taking them for as many walks after they stop being so squee worthy?
I have also noticed in Xining, they sell puppies by the truck load at peoples park. Yet strangely, no one in Xining has a dog. They generally don't like them. I imagine they dump or kill the puppies when they get older.
i don't know why GoldenBoy said that ,there are have lot of dogs in xi'an, when you jog in the early morning ,you will see many people drag their dog around parks or squares. in my opinion, people like dog here(i live in xi'an ) ,especially the puppies, because they litter,pilous and cute. the raiser won't dump or kill them when they growed.
GoldenBoy:
I said Xining not Xi'an. I have found a mixture of feelings in Xi'an, some like dogs and others hate them. I have a dog so I kin of pick up on these things.
Maybe it has to do with the fact that people are only now able to afford dogs? Most people may have only had dogs for a few years. It's a sort of status symbol or fad, now everyone wants one. Also, I think that a lot of small breeds can be mistaken for puppies at a distance. There are many more small to medium size dogs, I rarely see larger breeds like golden retrievers, but I have seen them.
There is a whole industry around selling puppies. It is deplorable, but without careful and strict regulation these companies will be nothing more than "puppy mills" which force breeding bitches to birth dozens of puppies per year. The puppies are raised in tiny cages, just like we raise chickens or pigs back in America. They are then sold all over the place to people who think they are cute or feel sorry for them.
Speaking of which, Chinese people don't seem to take good care of their pets.
Most of the dogs born in the puppy mills don't last long
Like everything else in China they don't last long and Chinese don't take care of them well...I knew alo of girls who's dogs die after a few months
In addition to what people have said above, I agree that people do not take care of their dogs. They don't feed them right. The people nearby who have a puppy give it food with bones, which it could easily choke on or the shards could rip apart its insides. One time I was playing with it, it got so excited it puked, and this chunk of bone came out. She doesn't like eating the food they give her, which seems to be almost all rice slurry. She is way too skinny. They claim she doesn't eat meat, but once my friend brought some leftover food from a picnic, and the meat was all she wanted. Most of them don't seem to be trained at all. They let them chew on anything, including Styrofoam, small toys, rocks, you name it. Again, this is easily a choking hazard. They either leave them outside on a short leash all day, often without water, or they let them wander free, where they could be attacked by other dogs or get run over by a car. Most of them do not wash their dog and it lives outside, so who knows what problems it has with its skin and health. They are also not given any kind of immunization, so any of these dogs could easily be killed by some kind of illness. I doubt there's even a vet in most cities, so if the dog has a problem, there's no way to save it. There used to be a puppy in my apartment complex. It also lived outside, and I haven't seen it since before Spring Festival, so I assume it died.
A similar observation. I see lots of couples walking either a dog or a pram, never both at the same time. Are dogs discarded if people become pregnant?