Thursday, November 09, 2006

Chinese authorities fight with the overpopulation of dogs

Chinese authorities decreed, that one family can bring only one dog, and masters are obligated to officially register their wards.

These measures are undertaken in order to decrease a quantity of bred dogs and the threat of infection by the fury, which became present calamity for China.

Only during September 2006 of the fury died 318 Chinese, which exceeded a quantity of deaths from AIDS and hepatite B within the same period. According to the estimations of specialists, in China are counted about 150 million not inculcated from the fury dogs.

Furthermore, it is forbidden to hold in the house of large dogs, dogs of boytsovskikh species, and to also separate dogs without the special permission of authorities. To the disturbers of prohibition will threaten penalty in the size of five thousand yuan, about 640 dollars, and also administrative arrest, both for the masters and for their wards.

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