As if we needed Another reason to loathe China's Communist Government.

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“No person is permitted to keep a dog of any kind,” said the notice posted on gateposts around the community of mostly high-rise apartment blocks. “Deal with it on your own, or else the committee will organise people to enter your home and club the dog to death right there.”

Regional governments have killed stray animals before, but Dayang’s order also covers dogs that have been registered and vaccinated.

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Chinese often appear sharply divided between animal lovers and those who see dogs as a threat to the public. The keeping of dogs as pets was effectively outlawed during the first decades of the people’s republic and was denounced by Communist leaders as a bourgeois affectation and waste of scarce resources.

Over the last 20 years, however, dog ownership has grown exponentially, despite continuing restrictions on large dogs in urban areas. A nascent animal rights movement has sprung up, with dog lovers sometimes blockading trucks shipping dogs off to markets to be served to the relatively small percentage who eat their meat.

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