8:51 pm - Friday May 18, 2012

Limit on numbers of man’s best friend in Shanghai

For decades, most Chinese residents of Shanghai have resigned themselves to the country’s strict one-child policy. But now, a similar restriction on dogs has them howling mad.

Raising dogs was banned under the rule of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong as a bourgeois pastime, but with China’s growing affluence and pursuit of Western trends, greater numbers of middle-class families have become avid pet owners.

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