Dog owners maddened by Beijing canine restrictions


	Dog owners maddened by Beijing canine restrictions

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7-17-2008 8:35 PM

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owners such as Deng Xiaozhi nervously leave their homes with 
pets in tow for a walk or run in parks safe with the knowledge 
that city dog catchers have already clocked off.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080717/lf_nm_life/olympics_china_pets_dc"><P>
 A Beijing law making it illegal to keep dogs taller than 35 
centimeters (1.1 foot) means that dogs such as <SPAN id="lw_1216256317_1" class="yshortcuts">Deng's placid 
Golden Retriever</SPAN> are outlaws and can be locked up and put down 
if they are intercepted by the authorities in the Olympic city.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080717/lf_nm_life/olympics_china_pets_dc"><P>
 Pet ownership in <SPAN id="lw_1216256317_2" class="yshortcuts">China</SPAN> is booming and dog lovers in 
particular complain about Beijing's inflexible laws against 
large dogs which they say harks back to China's communist past 
when few people kept dogs as pets, and those that did were 
scorned as bourgeois timewasters by communist leader <SPAN id="lw_1216256317_3" class="yshortcuts">Mao 
Zedong</SPAN>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080717/lf_nm_life/olympics_china_pets_dc"><P>
 "The 35-cm rule is not scientific, as most big pet dogs are 
quieter than smaller ones in reality," Deng said as he lay on 
the couch alongside his dog Maomao. "People who make the rules 
have no knowledge whatsoever of dogs."</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4C8E7C85-0DD6-4F5C-A090-2A1A7ADF5C21/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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