No, I don't have a dog. However, I notice that more and more people do. It seems as though long gone are the days of outrageously pirced Gou Hu Kou's (or dog registrations). Only a few years ago, people were keeping their dogs unregistered. Therefore forced to walk their dogs only at night and not without great fear. It used to be that dog walkers would stand out in the wee hours, socializing all the while, and at the first sign of blue and red flashing lights, would snap up their pooch and run as if it were a five pound bag of cocaine. Though, today, as I walk around Beijing, it seems those years are a file for the past. Little dogs, big dogs, run about with their owners in broad daylight--labs, retrievers, huskies, poodles, you name it. Yesterday, I watched a man with two dogs, one lab and one tiny yapper dog playing fetch. Traditional sticks and tennis balls? To heck with them! He threw empty plastic bottles this way and that, time after time and bottle after bottle. The dogs playing and wrestling, and having more fun than a canine should be allowed to have.
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