Category: Dogs

Authorities aren’t just enforcing the one dog per family rule in China. Apparently they are also culling all large breed dogs and any dog over 14 inches. The crackdown pushed 500 people to protest in Beijing while surrounded by police and while plain clothes police circulated in the crowd. Eighteen people were detained for questioning.

Beijing responds to rabies outbreak with one dog per family rule. Earlier this year, parts of China responded to a rabies outbreak by killing over 54,000 dogs by clubbing them to death and forcing owners to hang their own dogs. The New York Times wrote an article on the killings and the resulting outcry within China (You can read the NYT article by clicking through on Newsvine. Warning: possibly disturbing image.)

I’ll tear you from limb to limb.

BlackPearlDogs.com is a great group set up to champion the adoption of black dogs.

Bark recently had an article on the plight of black dogs in animals shelters.