Last year more than 140,000 people told police they had been bitten by an unlicensed dog. There are four times as many dogs without the proper paperwork in Shanghai as there are animals with a permit.
The new rule means owners whose dogs are not registered with the authorities will have to give them away. Those who already have two licensed dogs will be able to keep them, but only new applications from households without hounds will be accepted. Of course, this being China, people will no doubt find a way to get around the rules.
When restrictions on the numbers of homes families could own were introduced to try to slow the rise in house prices, there were reports of couples getting divorced but still living together just so they could buy more properties. The police say they are expecting they will have to adopt many of the dogs once they are declared outlaws.
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Of course, this being China, people will no doubt find a way to get around the rules.
Of course! Chinese people don't need no stinkin' rules. They're speshul.
When restrictions on the numbers of homes families could own were introduced to try to slow the rise in house prices, there were reports of couples getting divorced but still living together just so they could buy more properties.
B.C. needs to realize that they're doing this and make some similar rules here. Asian investors have driven up the house prices by an insane amount, and now there are tons of these "investment" apartments sitting empty... while homeless people are dying in the cold.
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