Word: dog
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...What's even more difficult is pinning down what kind of a comedy he's starring in. Is this a comedy about racing? About two best friends? A dysfunctional family? About an arrogant celebrity who goes from top dog to loser, and then back again...
...contrast, violations of human-as opposed to animal-rights are very rarely publicized by the mainstream Chinese media and very rarely open to public scrutiny. China is a country where advocacy for abused animals is more recognized and permissible than advocacy for abused humans. Part of why the dog killing got so much attention is that unlike say, the number of people killed in a given mining accident, or the number of people executed for capital crimes, dead dog statistics aren't considered state secrets in China. Likewise, while NGOs in China that focus on issues like the rule...
...Chinese weren't always so quick to leap to the defense of man's best friend. When I first arrived four years ago, my Canadian neighbor's dog Genghis-a pug with a self-important streak that rivals that of his namesake?was one of the very few dogs in our Beijing neighborhood. Other people on my street kept pets. There were old men who hitched elegant bamboo cages to their bicycle handlebars every dawn to pedal their songbirds out to the park for a morning of refreshment. There were well-fed crickets, flocks of homing pigeons that hummed through...
...Although people in Beijing don't generally eat dogs, which are raised for meat in the south of the country, the idea of dogs as pets hadn't caught on back then. That time, however, is long past. Today it seems everyone in my neighborhood has a dog. Genghis barely attracts any notice. Like humans, pet dogs must be registered with the local police station; owners pay a fee for registration. This is a lot of money and thus a dog confers a certain status on its owner...
They rented a grassy lot for their trailer home at the Lazy Days RV Campground, near a dog track in Hitchcock, Texas. Rusty had no intention of returning to the house in suburbia. Not yet. They were living out a new family motto: Travel light. "We had expenses. We didn't have a budget," Rusty says. "We just kind of lived. We took it easy...